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EMBALLONnKID.?E. 



slender processes, as ia Emballonura, with the maxillary bones. Nasal 

 bones much expanded laterally and vertically, while, posteriorly, 

 the frontal bones are depressed, forming a shallow concavity in the 

 forehead. 



Range. Prom Egypt through Asia Minor to India and Burma. 



Dr. Peters remarks that this genus, through the presence of two 

 phalanges in the index-finger, the development of the feet, and the 

 form of the intermaxillary bones, comes most closely, of all genera 

 of Insectivorous Bats, to the Pteropine Bats. 



1. RMnopoma microphyllum. 



Rhinopoma microphyllus, Geoffroy, Desa-ipt. de VEgypte, ii. p. 12.S. 

 Rhinopoma micropliyllum, Wagner, Suppl. Schreb. Sduqeth. i. p. 444 



(1844) ; Dohson, Monogr. Asiat. Chiropt. p. 174 (1876). 

 Rhinopoma hardwickii, 'Gray, Zoolog. MisceU. p. 37 (1831) ; Blytli, 



Journ. Asiat. 8oc. Beng. xiii. p. 492 ; Catal. Mamm. of Burma, p. 



18(1876) ; Dobson, Journ. Asiat. Sue. Beng. 1872, p. 211, figs. a-c. 

 Vespei'tilio (Rhinopoma) hai-dwickii, Elliot, Catal. Maonmals South 



Mahratta Country, p. 6, Madras (1840). 

 ? Rhinopoma lepsianum, Peters, MB. Akad. Berl. 1859, p. 222. 



Extremity of the muzzle thick, obtuse, obliquely truncated, pro- 

 jecting considerably beyond the lower lip ; nasal apertures consist- 

 ing of transverse valvular slits ; nose-leaf very small, upper margin 

 convex, with a small raphe passing downwards between the nostrils ; 

 forehead with a deep circular concavity between the eyes, from 

 which a narrow groove passes forwards along the centre of the 

 muzzle to the base of the nose-leaf. Ears shorter than the head ; 

 laid forwards the tips do not reach as far as the posterior margin of 

 the nose-leaf ; inner and outer margins slightly convex, the outer 

 margin straight for a short distance immediately beneath the tip, 

 extremity rounded oif ; the lower third of the inner margin of the 

 conch connected by a deep band arising immediately behind the 

 frontal depression ; outer margin ending between the base of the 

 tragus and the angle of the mouth, not forming a separate lobule 

 near its termination : tragus longer than wide, reaching its greatest 

 width about the middle of the inner margin; extremity obtuse, in- 

 distinctly and irregularly toothed, inner margin straight or slightly 

 concave, outer margin convex ; at the base a triangular lobule. 



First phalanx of the middle finger imperfectly flexed backwards 

 (in repose) upon the dorsal surface of the metacarpal bone. 



Tibia very long and straight, fibula very slender ; feet long and 

 slender, the first toe equal to the middle toe in length, as in Tapho- 

 zous ; wing-membrane from the lower third of the tibia ; calcaneum 

 feeble ; interfemoral membrane very short, perforated close to its 

 concave free margin by the long slender tail, which is produced 

 beyond it to a distance equal to the length of the forearm. 



The face is almost quite naked ; the margin of the upper lip is 

 fringed with a few fine hairs, which are most dense on the truncated 

 extremity of the muzzle, margining the upper edge of a triangular 

 slightly concave space intervening between the margin of the upper 



