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from being partly overlapped by membrane, which lines and surrounds 

 the centre of the facial depression, between the latter and the nostrils ; 

 outside of the nostrils the face is bordered by a layer of membrane sur- 

 rounding it in front in shape of a horse-shoe. The ears in this group 

 are large, ample, and apiculated, having the point directed outward, 

 and (as Mr. Hodgson remarks of the Rhinolophi generally,) are " trem- 

 blingly alive all over :" the conch is continued round in front to form 

 an anti-helix, which is separated apart by an emargination, sometimes 

 very deep, but should not be confounded (as it occasionally has been) 

 with the tragus of various other Bats. As many as six species inhabit 

 India, all of which (unless Rh. pusillus be among them) seem dif- 

 ferent from those heretofore described. 



The first is remarkable for having a conspicuous transverse leaflet with 

 a septum behind and above it, situate upon the larger or posterior 

 peaked membrane, and considerably above the lesser or anterior one ; 

 but this is only a modification and development of what is more or 

 less observable in the others. The posterior peak reaches to between 

 the ears and even beyond. 



1 . Rh. mitratus, Nobis. Length four inches, of which the tail mea- 

 sures an inch and a half; of another specimen three inches and one- 

 eighth, the tail an inch and a quarter. Expanse (of the former) pro- 

 bably twelve inches ; length of fore-arm respectively two and a quarter, 

 and two and one-eighth; of longest finger three and one-eighth, and three 

 inches ; of tibia an inch ; and tarse with claw g half an inch. Ears 

 large and ample, measuring an inch to point anteriorly, the anti-helix 

 moderately developed, but separated apart by only a slight emargina- 

 tion. Fur of the upper-parts a rich light brown, paler at base, exces- 

 sively soft and delicate, and rather long ; of the under-parts shorter 

 and much paler. Anterior nose-leaf subovate, or nearly rounded, 

 contracted at base, and a conspicuous lappet of membrane is given off 

 from each side of the centre of the facial depression, overhanging the 

 nostrils, and forming a round mesial cup ; vertical membrane posterior 

 to the lesser nose-leaf little developed, and supporting its base only ; the 

 uppermost or hindmost peak triangular and acute at tip, reaching be- 

 yond the base of the ears between the two, and divided by a mesial 

 septum, but little overlapped at base by a second small transverse 

 lamina which occurs also in most of the other species, and is placed 



