TILE BLACK-CltEEKED FILL' IT BAT. {Two-thirds NatW'll Size.) 
From the Proceedings of the Zoological Society, 1877. 
SUB-ORDER II.— MICROCHIROPTERA, OR INSECTIVOROUS BATS. 
CHAPTER III. 
HORSESHOE BATS AND MEGADERMS. 
INSECTIVOROUS Bats— M r. Dobson’s Objection to the Name— Characteristics— Nasal Appendages— The Vespertiliontne 
and Emballonurine Alliances- The Fur in the Two Alliances— The Horseshoe Bats -General Characteristics— 
Distribution— Diet— Carnivorous Propensities— Greater Horseshoe Bat— General Appearance “ Nose Leaves ” 
Habitat— The Lesser Horseshoe Bat— Habitat— The Mourning Horseshoe Bat— The Australian Horseshoe 
Bat— The Orange Bat-Phyllorhinjs -The DrADEM Bat— Character of their “Nose Leaves”— Captain Hutton's 
Account of their Habits— The Persian Trident Bat— The Megaderms— The Lyre Bat— C haracteristics— Called 
Vampire by Europeans in India— Mr. Bly til’s Account of a Megaderm’s Blood-thirstiness— The Cordate Leaf Bat— 
The African Megaderm— The Desert Bat. 
The second sub-order of Bats — which includes a much larger number of species, displaying a far 
greater variety of characters than those which have hitherto occupied our attention — has received the 
name of Insectivora , from the general nature of the diet of the animals composing it. Mr. Dobson 
objects to this name, chiefly on account of there being already an order of Mammalia bearing the same 
designation ; and he proposes to call these Bats Microchiroptera , in allusion to the small size of most 
of the species in comparison with the majority of the Pteropkke. Moreover, although the lood of most 
of these Bats consists exclusively of insects, some of them feed, at least partially, upon other vertebrate 
animals, and a few are known to eat fruit. 
The Bats belonging to this second sub-order may be at once distinguished by the structure of their 
molar teeth, which are armed with acute tubercles, separated, more or less completely, by transverse 
furrows. The ears also differ from those of the Pteropidse, in that the two margins of the concli start 
from different points on the surface of the head, and, in a great number of cases, they are complicated 
by a membranous lobe, springing from near their base, or by a great development of the tragus, or 
anterior lobe of the ear. The tail in these Bats is generally well developed, and the index finger is 
never terminated by a claw. 
A considerable number of Insectivorous Bats of different families have their noses furnished (we 
