148 PIT-NOSE BAT. 



but differs in its colour, being of a pale yellowish 

 ash-brown. Its principal character is a remark- 

 able transverse concavity situated on the forehead, 

 lined with a naked blackish skin : the nostrils are 

 seated in a similar concavity at the tip of the nose. 

 It is a native of India. The circumstance of the 

 frontal cavity is not absolutely peculiar to this 

 animal; having been observed, though in a much 

 less conspicuous degree, in another species : the 

 use of this peculiar formation seems as yet un- 

 known. 



