EHINOPOMA MICEOPHTLLUM. 
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RHINOPOMATID^. 
A short triangular nose-leaf. Tail exceedingly slender and very long, projecting fat 
beyond the short interfemoral membrane. Ears united. Second digit of manus with 
two phalanges. 
Distribution .—North Africa (Algeria); North-east Africa, Egypt and Kordofan; 
Palestine ; Arabia; India to M alayan Peninsula. 
EHINOPOMA. 
Rhinopoma, Geoffr. St.-Hil. Descr. de I’Egypte, Hist. Nat. ii. 1818, p. 123. 
The generic characters are the same as those of the family. 
The bat described by Briinnich as Vespertilio microphyUus, upon which GeofProy 
created the genus Dhinopoma, diifers so materially in many important details of its 
structure from other bats, that Stoliczka ^ was led to regard it provisionally as the 
representative of a distinct family, manifesting a close relationship to some of the 
genera of the Noctilionidae on the one hand, and affinities with the Megadermatidse on 
the other. 
The nose-leaf of Bhinopoma has its nearest representative in the large nose-leaf of 
Megaderma, which has likewise broadly united ears. The notching of the free end of 
the tragus of the former is a feeble equivalent of the bifid tragus of the latter. 
Rhinopoma miceophyllum, Briinn. (Plate XX. fig. 3.) 
Vespertilio microphyllus, Briinnich, Dyrenes Hist, og Dyre.-Sam. Uni verst. Natur.-Tlieater, i. 1782, 
p. 50, pi. vi. figs. 1-4. . 
Rhinopoma microphyllum,V.Get(Mx. St.-Hil. Descr. de PEgypte, Hist. Nat. ii. 1818, p. 123; Atlas, 
pi. 1. nos. 1 to 1" (wrongly figured as Taphien filet), et pi. 4. nos. 6 to 6"; Desm. Diet, des Sc. 
Nat. xlv. (1827) p. 370; id. Nouv. Diet. xxix. 1818-19, p. 256; id. Mammif. 1820, p. 129; 
Licht. Verz. Doubl. Zool. Mus. Berl. 1823, p. 4; Fischer, Syn. Mamm. 1829, p. 123; Riippell, 
Mus. Senck. iii. 1845, p. 155; Fitz. &Heugl. SB. k. Akad. Wien, liv. i. 1866, p. 547; Tristram, 
Proc. Zool. Soc. 1866, p. 93 ; Loche, Expl. Sc. Alger., Mammif. 1867, p. 79; Dobson, Monogr. 
As. Chir. 1876, p. 174, figs, a, Z», & c; id. Cat. Chir. B. M. 1878, p. 400; Gasco, Viaggio in Egitto, 
pt. i. 1876, p. 96; Heugl. Eeise N.O.-Afr. ii. 1877, p. 24; Tristram, West. Palest. 1884, p, 29; 
1 Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xli. pt. 2, 1872, p. 221. 
