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[PART IV. 
southern limits of the forest region east of the Ancles, and to 
about lat. 33° S. in Chili. Hone are found in the Hearctic 
region, with the exception of one species in California ( Maewtus 
Calif or nicus), closely allied to Mexican and West Indian forms. 
The celebrated blood-sucking vampyre bats of South America 
belong to this group. Two genera, Desmodus and Diphylla, form 
Dr. Peters’ family Desmodidse. Mr. Dobson, in his recently 
published arrangement, divides the family into five groups : — 
Mormopes, Vampyri, Glossophagse, Stenodermata, and Desmo- 
dontes. 
Numerous remains of extinct species of this family have been 
found in the bone-caves of Brazil. 
Family 11. — PuHINGLOPHIDiE. (7 Genera, 70 Species.) 
General Distribution. 
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Sub- regions. 
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Sub-regions. 
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Sub-regions. 
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Sub-regions. 
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Sub-regions. 
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The Rliinolophidse, or ITorse-shoe Bats (so-called from a 
curiously-shaped membranous appendance to the nose), range 
over all the Ethiopian and Oriental regions, the southern part 
of the Palsearctic region, Australia and Tasmania. They are 
most abundant and varied in the Oriental region, where twelve 
genera are found ; while only five inhabit the Australian and 
Ethiopian regions respectively. Europe has only one genus and 
four species, mostly found in the southern parts, and none going 
further north than the latitude of England, where two species 
occur. Two others are found in Japan, at the opposite extremity 
of the Palsearctic region, 
The genera Nycteris and Megaderma , which range over the 
Ethiopian and Oriental regions to the Moluccas, are considered 
by Dr. Peters to form a distinct family, Megadermidse ; and 
Mr. Dobson in his recent arrangement (published after our first 
