590 



ZOOLOGY. 



sensitive, leaf-like growths of complicated form. Certain 

 bats are known to enter houses, and suck the blood from 



Fig. B12.— Skull of adult !-perui wlmte ?■ en from above and from the side, 60, 

 lia-iioccipital bone ; «o, exoccipital : xo, t^apraoccipital ; p, parietal ; *, ^^namosal ; y, 

 frontal ; pi, palatine; J, jngal ; sh, stylohyoid ; 6A, basibyoid ; tt, liiyrohyoid. — After 

 Flower. 



the extremities of sleeping persons, who awaken to find their 

 feet covered with blood. The true vampire is harmless. 



