CARNARIA,. 81 
c. The tail free above the membrane. 
P. crenulatum, Geoff. Ann. du Mus. XV, pl. 10. (The In- 
dented Javelin Bat.) The leaf denticulated on the edges. 
M. Geoffroy, Mem. du Mus. IV, p. 418, separates from the Phyl- 
lostomz those species whose tongues are narrow, susceptible of elon- 
gation, and furnished with papille resembling hairs—he calls them 
GLossopHAGa. 
These species are likewise from America.(1) 
In the second great tribe of Bats the index has only one bony 
phalanx, while all the other fingers have two. __ 
This tribe is also divided into several subgenera. 
Mercaperma, Geoff. Ann. du Mus. XV. 
The membrane on the nose, or the leaf, more complicated than 
that of the Phyllostomz; the tragus large and most commonly 
bifurcated ; the conchs of the ear ample and soldered together on 
the top of the head ; tongue and lips smooth ; the inter-femoral mem- 
brane entire, and no tail. They have four incisors below; but there 
are none above, and their inter-maxillary bone remains cartilaginous. 
They are all from the eastern continent, either from Africa, 
the Leaf from Senegal for instance, (Meg. Frons., Geoff.) whose 
nasal membrane is oval and nearly as large as the head; or 
from the Indian Archipelago, as the Spasma of Ternate, Ves- 
pert. Spasma, L., Seb. I, rv1.—La Lyre, Geoff. Ann. Mus. XV, 
ph 12.—Le Tréfle de Java, Id. ib., &c: They are distinguished 
from each other by the figure of the leaf, like the Phyllostome. 
Rutno.topnus, Geoff. and Cuy. 
The nose of the Horse-shoe Bats, as they are vulgarly called, is 
furnished with very complex crests and membranes laid upon the 
chanfrin, presenting the figure of a horse-shoe; the tail long and 
placed in the inter-femoral membrane. ‘There are four incisors be- 
low, and two very small ones above in a cartilaginous inter-maxillary 
bone. 
There are two species of them in France which are very com- 
mon, discovered by Daubenton. 
R. bifer, Geoff., Ann. Mus. XX, pl. 5; Vesp. ferrum equt- 
num, L.3 and the small one, Vesp. hipposideros, Bechst. 
(1) Véespertilio soricinus, Pall. Spicil. Fascic. II, pl. 3 and 4, copied Buff. Supp. 
Ul, pl. 53.—Glossoph. amplexicaudatus, Geoff. Mem, Mus. 1V, pl. 18, F. C.—G@zZ. 
caudifer, Id. ib. pl. 17, fig. A and B. 
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