RHINOLOPHID^. 

 HORSESHOE-NOSED BATS. 



Characters :— These bats have a conspicuous nose-leaf; no 

 tragus ; a short tail and moderately developed interfemoral 

 membrane ; premaxillae rudimentary, suspended from the nasal 

 cartilages and only partially bridging the gap between the two 

 upper incisors, which are quite rudimentary and widely separ- 

 ated ; nasal bones much expanded. 



Genus RHINOLOPHUS. 



1798. Les Rhinolophes, Georges Cuvier, Tableau ^Umentaire de I'Histoire Nattir- 

 elle des Animaux, 105. 



1799. RHINOLOPHUS, Le C. Lacep^de, Tableaux . . . des Mammiflres, etc., 15, No. 

 73 ; based on Rhinolophus ferrum-equinum. 



1816, Phyllorhina, W. E. Leach, Systematic Catalogue of the Specimens of The 



Indigenous Mammalia and Birds that are Preserved in The British Museum, etc. 



(London), i ; based, without description, on Phyllorhina minuta of Leach = Vespertilio 



minuius of Montagu, the Small Leaf-nose, from Torquay, Devon, presented by 



G. Montagu ; see Blanford, Proc. Zool. Soc. (London), 6th Dec. 1887, 637-638. 

 1836. Rhinocrepis, F. L. p. Gervais, Dictionnaire Pittoresque d'Histoire Naturelle, 



iv., 2, 617, quoting from Cuvier and Geoffroy, Magazine Encyclopddique, vi., 1795, 



but the name does not occur in the paper referred to, nor, so far as is known, prior 



to 1799. 

 1847. Aquias, J. E. Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. (London), 9th March, 15-16; Ann. and 



Mag. Nat. Hist, June 1847, 408 ; based on Rhinolophus luctus of Temminck, and 



R. trifoliatus of Temminck. 

 1866. Phyllotis, J. E. Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. (London), 13th Feb., 81 ; based on 



Phyllotis philippensis of Waterhouse, i.e., Rhinolophus philippinensis ; preoccupied 



by Phyllotis of Waterhouse, 1837, a genus oiMuridce. 

 1866. Speoriferra, J. E. Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. (London), 13th Feb., 82 ; based on 



Speoriferra vulgaris, i.e., Rhinolophus vulgaris of Horsfield. 

 1866. CcELOPHYLLUS, W. Peters, Proc. Zool. Soc. (London), 22nd Nov., 427 ; based 



on Rhinolophus ccelophyllus of Peters. 

 1887. Pseudorhinolophus, Max Schlosser, Beitrage sur Palciontologie Osterreich- 

 226 U 



