THE 



ZOOLOGICAL MISCELLANY, 



I. On the Characters of the European Species of the 

 Genus Rhinolophus,co7«?7?o/i/^ named Horse-shoe 

 Bats. 



RHINOLOPHUS. 

 Rhinolophus, Geoffroy-St.-Hilairej Dinnhil, Ciivier. 



Denies incisores superiores 2, simplices, minuti, in os prae- 



maxillare subcartilagineum distanier insert! : inferiores 



4, approximati, trifidi. 



laniarii in utraque mandibula 4. 

 molares in utraque mandibula 10. 

 Nasus foliis duobus : posteriore erecto. 

 Aiires liberae. 



Cauda elongata, cum pedibus posticis membrana connecta. 

 Mammce, 2 pectorales, 2 inguinales. 



The most remarkable character, as GeofFroy has ob- 

 served, is the presence of the inguinal teats, which are 

 situated one on each side of the vulva. 



GeofFroy-St.-Hilaire, to whom naturalists are indebted 

 for a most excellent series of dissertations on the classifi- 

 cations of Bats, has overlooked the two anterior grinding 



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