and Description of New Genera and Species. 491 



t. 1, head : la Feuille, Daubenton, Acad. Paris, 1769. Inhabits 

 Africa, (Egypt, Senegal, Gambia.) British Museum. 



Nose-leaf large, membranaceous, hairy, the hinder part elongat- 

 ed, with a deep fold on each side forming a broad central tapering 

 kind of midrib, the lower part of each fold furnished with a mem- 

 branaceous expansion covering the nostrils. The front of the leaf 

 large, with a broad expanded free edge, furnished with a fold in 

 centre of the front, forming a conical canal. 



? 18. Mormoops, Leach, not F. Cuv. Nose-leaf simple; ears 

 large, close together in front, united to the nose-leaf above, and to 

 the membranaceous ridges round the mouth and chin ; interfemoral 

 membrane large, truncated ; tail short, inclosed ; apex free above ; 

 cutting teeth |. 



Mormoops Blainvillii, Leach, Linn. Trans, xiii. t. 7- Inhabits 

 Jamaica. 



The genus described by M. F. Cuvier under this name appears 

 to be perfectly different. This genus differs from Vampyrus in 

 the large ears, the mouth being fringed with membranes, wartiness 

 of the chin, and in the under lip being entire in front. 



Tribe II. — Rhinolophina. 



Nose disk expanded into a leaf behind, and with a pit or process 



between the nostrils in front. 

 * Interfemoral membranes very small ; tail none ; disk with a large 



deep pit between the ?wslrils. 



19. Ariteus, Gray. Istiophorus, Gray (not Cuv.) Nose-leaf 

 erect, lanceolate, simple behind, rounded in front ; ears lateral ; 

 separate tragus ; lanceolate- toothed ; interfemoral membrane only 

 margining the legs ; heel-bone, moderate. 



Yellowish Ariteus. Ariteus flavescens, Gray. Istiophorus flaves- 



cens, Gray. Zool. Misc. 37- Inhabits ? British Museum. 



* * Interfemoral membranes large ; tail long. (Old World.) 



20. Rhinolophus (Noctilio, Bechst.) Horse-shoe Bat. Nose- 

 leaf thin, extended into a transverse lanceolate leaf, with 4 cells at its 

 base, and with a toothed longitudinal crest in the middle space, be- 

 tween the nostrils in front, and a slight pit in its front ; ears large, 

 separate ; pubes with distinct false teats. Tragus small. 



Rhinolophus hipposideros, Geoff. Leach. Misc. t. 121. Rh. bi- 

 hastatus, Geoff. Ann. Mus. xx. t. 5. Temm. Mon. n. Vesp. mi- 

 nutus, Montagu, Linn. Trans, ix. t. 18, f. 6. Noctilio hipposideros 

 Bechst. {1801.) V . ferrum-equinum (3 Gmel. Petit fer ache val. Dau- 

 bent. Buffon, N.H. iii. t. 20. Inhabits Europe. Brit. Mus. 



