THE PROPER BATS. 
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muzzle is very hairy, and black ; the membranes brown, and veined with 
lines of a lighter brown colour. 
Section III. Asiatic Species. 
39. V. MOLOSSUS.— THE DOG-MOUTHED BAT. 
This is a new species, which has been lately sent to Holland, from 
Japan, by M. Burger, and which will be represented in the forthcoming 
Fama Japoiiica. The muzzle is extremely obtuse, large, and broad, 
similar to the snout of the Bull-dog Bats, and is clad to the nostrils, 
which are wide apart. The cheek-bones are high ; the ears large, and 
nearly round, and a fold extends from tliem to the commissure of the 
lips ; the tragus is short, and lance-shaped, and the external half of the 
auricle is covered with hair. The wings, wliich are far from broad, are 
abundantly clad beneath, along the flanks ; the interfemoral membrane is 
large, and has a jutting out lobe at the heel. The inner pair of the in- 
cisors are canine shaped, and the external quite resemble a strong and 
short canine: the six lower ones are tricuspid. The fur is silky, smooth, 
and lustrous, and of one colour throughout. The male, above, is of a 
deep rosy-brown, beneath, of the shade of a decayed leaf. Thefevtalc, 
above, is of a lively rust-colour, beneath, like the male j the membranes 
are brownish-black. The length is five inches, the breadth fourteen. 
40. V. NOCTULINA THE NOCTULINE BAT. 
This species is described by M. Is. Geoffrey in Belanger’s Fopage aux 
Indes, and a specimen was sent by M. Duvaucel to the Paris Museum 
from Bengal. The size of this individual was three inches two lines 
rPrench) long, and eight inches six lines of expanse. It approximates in 
characters to the Nodule Bat, and hence its name. Its dimensions are 
nearly those of the Pipistrelle. The upper parts of the head and body 
are of a russet-fawn colour, the under of a very light fawn, all the hairs 
being lighter nearer their root than at the point. The alar membranes are 
almost entirely naked, but the base of the interfemoral, on its upper side, 
IS covered with a few hairs of the same colour as those on the back. 
The cars are of a triangular form, somewhat rounded ; the tragus is 
straight, and elongated. The muzzle is naked at the point and sides. 
41. V. BLEPOTIS.— THE EAR-SEEING BAT. 
M. Temminck is the first who described this Bat, of which a great 
many have been captured in the Indian Archipelago by the Netherland 
Naturalists, It is characterized by the spheroid development of its ex- 
ternal ear, which nearly surrounds the orbit, and has led to its appella- 
tion, for it may truly be said to be a Bat whose eye is comprehended 
within its car. Its livery is different, at different periods of the year, the 
result, it would appear, of a double moult. A great many have been 
examined, and they are wonderfully constant in their markings. The 
face of this animal is obtuse, tbe ears very short, quite round, and not 
united, with their external margin directed forwards nearly to the com- 
missure of the lips, and having a few short hairs within ; the tragus is 
leaf-shaped, and inclined inwards. The head is small and short, and the 
eyes nearly hid by the ears ; the body is stout ; and the tail as long as it 
and the head put together ; the membranes very ample. The fur is 
bushy, very short, close, cottony, smooth, and shining above, crisp be- 
neath. The adult, in both sexes, has the head, neck, and shoulders, of 
a deep maronc colour, and the remaining superior parts perfectly black 
and shining ; the chin, throat, and chest, are rosy-brown ; and the under 
part of the body is a dull black ; the abdomen is a light brown, and the 
alar membranes are clad underneath : this is their livery in the sj>ring. 
In autumn, all the upper parts are sooty-black, without a trace of the 
marone-tiut, and below greyish-black. In the month of January the fur 
is parti-coloured, being of the maroue-shade on the neck, and brown on 
the chest. The entire length is between four and four and a half inches ; 
the expanse twelve. This Bat is very common in Java, where, however, 
it rarely appears in the plains, but in rocky and woody regions. It is 
also noticed in the neiglibouring islands, as far as Japan ; its retreats are 
in caverns and clefts of the rock, and hence its capture is difficult — (Fig. 
in Temm. Mon. II. pi. 53, figs. 1 and 2.) 
42. V. CIRCUMDATUS.— THE EDGED BAT. 
We owe the discovery of this new species to MM. Boie and Macklot, 
who have transmitted many specimens from Java to Leyden. The tail 
and interfemoral membrane are short, and the latter is clad above, near 
its base ; the muzzle is very short and obtuse ; the ears are broad, black, 
and edged with a white margin, whence its name; they are more broad 
than high, and scooped out at their external margin. The fur is long, 
bushy, and very lustrous. The hairs are bicoloured : its robe above is 
deep black, the tips being reddish-marone ; beneath the chest is black, 
with red tips ; the abdomen black, with ash-coloured tips ; the base of 
the eats is yellow, their edges yellowish-white ; the rest of the ears, and 
all the membranes, are quite black. The length is four and a half inches, 
the breadth twelve. — (Fig. in Temm. Mon. II. pi. 53, figs. 3 and 4.) 
43. V. BRACHYPTERUS.— THE SHORT-WINGED BAT. 
The individual which supplied M. Temminck with the characters of 
this Bat was captured at Padang, in Sumatra. The dimensions of this 
animal were in length 3". 3'". in breadth 8." (French.) It is remarkable 
for the shortness of its wings in relation to the size of its body. The 
muzzle is obtuse, and remarkably broad ; the nostrils apart ; the ears are 
large, and developed sidewise ; they would be perfectly round save for 
the scooping out on the external margin. The tragus is like an oval leaf, 
of which the point is bare, and the base well clad. All the four upper 
incisors are remarkably small. The fur is short and smooth, and ex- 
tends along the upper part of the flanks, and round the coccyx, with the 
appearance of a ribbon. The colour, above, is nearly a black-brown, 
beneath, amber-brown, with the membranes black, — (Fig. in Temm. 
Mon. II. pi. 53, figs. 5 and 6.) 
44. V. IMBRICATUS THE IMBRICATED BAT. 
This Java species, there called Low-o-lesear, is a striking representa- 
tion of the European Pipistrelle, and hence M. Kuhl transmitted many 
to Europe, under the name of the Pipistrelloid Bat ; as, however. Dr 
Horsfield had the right of priority, (Zool. Research. Sp. 51,) the name he 
affixed should, of course, be retained. One of the specimens in the 
Leyden Museum is pie-bald, having the cutaneous system pure white, 
irregularly marked with large brown spots, and is probably an albino. 
The entire length of this species is about 3". ; the expanse 9". ; the ears 
are broad, short, and nearly round ; the muzzle obtuse ; nostrils apart ; 
the tragus short, obtuse, round ; a band of small and very fine hairs runs 
the whole length of and underneath the vertebras of the tail, hence the 
animal’s name. The fur, short, smooth, and abundant, is differently 
coloured in the two sexes. The male, above, is black-brown, or bistre- 
coloured ; beneath, is black, tipped reddish, giving the parts a falcon cast. 
The.^’)Kafc is, above, reddish-brown, and beneath, redder than in the 
male ; the young is generally fawn-coloured. — (Fig. in Temm. Mon. II. 
pi. 54, figs. 1, 2, 3.) 
45. V. PACHYPUS— THE THICK-FOOTED BAT. 
The size of this species is less than the common Bat of this country — 
the Pipistrelle — and the expanse, especially, is less ; the thumb nail is 
remarkably short, and supplied with a callosity. The head is very de- 
pressed ; the muzzle obtuse ; the ears broader than high, and the lower 
lobe large ; the tragus is short and roundish. The feet are remarkable, 
the metatarsus being very long, and the toes very short ; the point of the 
tail is free ; the cranium, likewise, and chanfrin, are depressed. The fur 
is bicoloured, and without any apparent difference in the sexes ; above, 
it is of a beautiful marone-colour, more or less shining, the points of the 
hair being of this colour, and their base golden red ; on the chest tiie 
hairs are brown, tipped with red; the abdomen is dull brown. The en- 
tire length is about 3"., the expanse 7. This animal is well known m 
Java and Sumatra, whence M. Van Hasselt has sent many to Europe. — 
(Fig. in Temm. Mon. 11. pi. 54, figs. 4, 5, 0.) 
4G. V. MACROTIS THE GREAT-EARED BAT. 
This lemarkable species may be easily distinguished, at the first glance, 
from all its congeners, by the large size of the cars, compared to that of 
the body, and by its cutaneous system, which is delicate, diaphanous, 
and much veined. The face is obtuse ; tbe nostrils apart ; the ear is 
large, and prolonged to the cheek; the tragus is also large, like a curved 
leaf. The inner pair of incisors are broad and bifid, the outer short and 
pointed ; the six below are very small, fine, and smooth. The fur is of 
mean length, smooth, and of one colour over the whole body, being a 
bistre-brown, like the peel of the onion; the muzzle is black. Ihe 
membranes are very diaphanous, somewhat brownish near the body, and 
elsewhere of a pale white, covered throughout with numerous brown 
veins ; the ears and all the toes are brown, and there is no difference in 
the markings of the sexes. The entire length is 3"., the expanse a trifle 
more than 8"._(Fig. in Temm. Mon. 11. pi. 54, figs. 7, 8.) 
