80. » MAMMALIA, 
“whose thumb has a little concave palette peculiar to them, and by 
which they are enabled to cling more closely.(1) 
~ Nocrizio, Lin. Ed. XII. 
Muzzle short, inflated, and split into a double hare- -lip, covered 
with odd looking warts and seams; ears separate; four incisors 
above, and two below; tail short, and free above the inter-femo val 
membrane. te, 
The species best known is from America. It is ofau if iform 
fawn- colour—Vespert. leporinus, Gin , schreb. LX,(2) e 4 
‘The ihe Wegular 1 number of incisors is four to each j jew, but a wast of 
the lower ones frequently fall, being forced out by the growth of the 
canini. They are moreover distinguished by a membrane resembling 
a doubled leaf, that is placed crosswise on the end of the nose. The 
een of us, ear resembles a small leaf, more or less denticulated, 
The tongue, which is very extensible, terminates in papille, whith 
nm '-~ Puytiosroma, Cuy. and Geoff. 
oe to be so arranged as to form an organ of suction—the lips. 
_ also are furnished with tubercles, symmetrically arr anged. They 
" -are all from America, run along the ground with more facility than 
the other bats, and have a habit of sucking the blood nf animals. 
e a. Without a tail. —Vasenvs, Sy. 
SYP; spectrum; V. spectrum, Ain. adiras -guacu of the he Brazi- 
lians; Seb. LVITI; Geoff. Ann. Mis. XV peK 11," 4:4 The Vam- 
pire.) Theleaf funnel- -shaped ; colour a reddish brown ; size, 
that of a Magpie. From South America. It is accused of 
causing the death of men and animals by sucking their blood; 
the wound, howeyer, is small, though it may occasionally prove 
serious from the effects of the elimate:(3) 
b. The tail involved in the inter femoral membrane. 
; 
ff hastatus, L,. gout’; XIN, XXX1ii. (The javelin Bat. de The 
leaf shaved ike the head of a javelin, the edges pire) 
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(1) Thir. tricolor, Spix, 36,f.9. It is with some hesitation that we have thus 
placed this subgenus, ‘its description being incomplete. — oft 
(2) The W. dorsatus, Geoff., or the WV. vittatus, Pr. Max., hasa white stripe down 
the back —The W. albiventer, Spix, 35, 2 and 4, is fawn-coloured above, white be- 
neath, and rather smaller. Add, JV. rufus, Spix, 353% 
(3) Add la Lunette; Vesp. perspicillatus, Lx, Buff., Rvp: VU, Ixxiy; and the 
three species from Azzara, by Geoff., Ann. du Mus., VI, 181—182. _ 
(4) Add Philost. elongutum, Geoff., » Ann, Mus., XV, ix. i ee 
