RHINOLOPHID^. '^ 



brown, or olive brown ; sometimes with a bluish tinge throughout. 

 The fur of the male is distinguished from that of the female, especially 

 during the rutting season, by a collar of stiff radiating reddish yellow 

 hairs. Upper incisors close together ; short, equal in length ; placed 

 in a straight line in the space between the canines, from which a slight 

 interval separates them on each side. Lower incisors somewhat 

 smaller, forming a slightly arched row ; the outer incisors on each side 

 separated as above by a small space from the canine. First upper 

 premolar minute, in the centre of the space between the canine and 

 second premolar and slightly to the outer side of the tooth row ; 

 second premolar nearly equal to the lower canine in vertical extent. 



Length [of an adult ^ ). — Head and body 4-4*', tail 0-4*, head 1*5* 

 ear l"x0-5", ear from tip of nostril ]-2*, eye from tip of nostril 0-5", 

 forearm 3", third finger 5", fifth 3-7", thumb M", tibia M", foot O-?*. 



Hah. — Sind (at the Mulleer and Larkhana) . Occurs in India generally 

 from the Himalayas to Cape Comorin, Ceylon, Andamans, Burmah, 

 Sumatra, Java, Borneo and Philippine Islands. {Dobson Monog. 

 As. Chir. ; Cat. Br. Mus.) 



This bat is a perfect pest at the Mulleer and in other places in Sind, 

 from the havoc it commits in the plantain, guava and mango gardens. 



SUB-ORDER II.— MICROCHIROPTERA. 



Crown of the molar teeth acutely tubercular, marked by transverse 

 furrows ; bony palate narrowing abruptly, not continued behind the 

 last molar. Second finger not terminated by a claw ; outer and inner 

 sides of ear-conch commencing anteriorly from separate points of 

 origin ; stomach simple, or with the cardiac extremity more or less 

 elongated. Carnivorous or insectivorous. Rarely frugivorous. 



Family, RHINOLOPHID^. 



Gray (in part) Pro. Zoo. 8oc. 1866, p. 81 ; Dobson Ann. and Mag. 

 Nat. Hist. 187b xvi. p. 34^6; Monog. As. Chir. p. 36; Cat. Chir. Br. 

 Mus. p. 99. 



Bats with well developed foliaoeous cutaneous appendages sui-round- 

 ing the nasal apertures, which are situated in a depression on the 

 upper surface of the muzzle j with large, generally separated ears, and 

 no tragus. Two phalanges in the middle finger and an imperfect index 

 finger without a phalanx. Premaxillary bones rudimentary, suspend- 

 ed from the nasal cartilages. The dental formula never exceeds 



T „ 2 1—1 2—2 3—3 „„ 



I^C. 5, C ^^, pm.333, m. 3^3 =32. 



Upper incisors rudimentary. First upper molar minute. Molars well 

 developed with W-shaped cusps. Nasal appendages comphcated, con- 

 sisting of (1) a horizontal nose-leaf, generally horseshoe-shaped; (2) 

 central nose-leaf or sella ; ( 3) the terminal or posterior nose-leaf, which 

 arises vertically, or extends backward between the ears ; skull large ; 

 nasal bones supporting the cutaneous appendages, expanded vertically 

 and laterally ; tibia long and straight ; fibula rudimentary. Females 



