M A M M A L I A .
F amily-PH YLLO STOMID ,®;.
D e sm o d u s D ’O r b ig n y i .
P l a t e I. N atural size. Skull, teeth, & c. P I. X X X V ., figs. 1.
D . filis nitidis adpressis; corpore suprd fusco, filis ad basin alb is; guU abdomineque
cinerescenti-albis ; nastts prostliemate párvulo bijido.
D esceiption.—The fur of this Bat is glossy and has a silk-like appearance ; that
on the top of the head, sides of the face, and the whole of the upper parts of
the body, is of a deep brown colour; all the hairs on these parts, however,
are white at the base. The flanks, interfemoral membrane, and the arms, are
also covered on their upper side with brown hairs. On the lower part of the
sides of the face, and the whole of the under parts of the body, the hairs are
of an ashy-wliite colour. The membrane of the wing is brownish. The
ears are of moderate size, and somewliat pointed ; externally tliey are
covered with minute brown hairs, and internally with white. The tragus is
also covered with wliite hairs; it is of a narrow form, pointed at the tip,
and has a small acute process iii the middle of tlie outer margin. The nose-
leaf is pierced by the nostrils, which diverge posteriorly, and is so deeply
cleft on its hinder margin, that it may he compared to two small leaflets
joined side by side near their bases. These leaflets, unlike the nose-leaf
of the Phyllostoinina, lie horizontally on the nose to which they are attached
throughout, a slight ridge only indicating their margin. Around the posterior
part of tlie nose-leaf there is a considerable naked space, in wliicli
two small liollows are ohseiwable, situated one on each side, and close to the