EHINOLOPHID^. 
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Suborder MICBOCHIROPTEBA. 
Carnivorous Bats living chiefly on insects, rarely frugivorous. Molar teeth with 
acutely tubercular, transversely furrowed crowns; osseous palate not prolonged 
laterally behind the last molar. Second digit of manus always clawless, generally with 
a single rudimentary phalanx and rarely with two phalanges, or devoid of one. Ear- 
conch not forming a complete ring at the base, but each border arising separately from 
the side of the head. Stomach simple, but sometimes {Desmodontes of the family 
Phyllostomatidae) with a diverticulum at its cardiac end. 
Spread over the tropical and temperate regions of both hemispheres 
RHINOLOPHIDtE. 
Nasal apertures situated in a depression on the upper aspect of the muzzle and 
surrounded by foliaceous cutaneous appendages. Ears large, separated, as a rule, 
from one another and devoid of a tragus. Second digit of manus represented only 
by a metacarpal; third digit with two phalanges ; premaxillary bone more or less 
rudimentary, suspended from the nasal cartilages. 
Dentition variable, but never exceeding : i. c. pm. m. § = 32. 
1-^3 3 
Upper incisors rudimentary ; first upper premolar minute. 
Females with two nipple-like appendages slightly in front of the pubis. 
This family is divided into two subfamilies, the BMnolophince and the llippo- 
sid evince. 
Distrihution.—Tem^Qmte and tropical parts of the Eastern Hemisphere. Doubtfully 
present in the Polynesian Subregion. 
Subfamily RHINOLOPHIN^. 
First digit .of foot with two phalanges ; each of the remaining digits of the same 
member with three phalanges. In the pelvic bones the ilio-pectineal spine and antero¬ 
inferior surface of the ilium are not connected to form a preacetabular foramen. 
1 Heuglin held that many of the Insectivorous Bats of the Egyptian Sudan move from place to place 
like migrating birds, to find their sustenance among the Dipterous and other insects which follow the herds 
of the Nomads. 
