[173] Phyllorhina armigera.
[174] Other common Eastern species are the Masked Leaf Bat (Phyllorhina larrata), which occurs in Bengal, Further India, Siam, and Java; the Bicolorous Leaf Bat (P. bicolor), which inhabits India, China, and many of the Eastern islands; and the Indian Horseshoe Bat (P. speoris), an abundant form in Central and Southern India and in Ceylon, and which has also been met with in Burmah. A single species (P. taitiensis) has been described from Tahiti. It is very nearly related to the last-named Indian form, if not merely a variety of it. A single species (P. cerrina) also inhabits North Australia, where it has been met with at Cape York, and in sandstone caverns in Albany Island. It is about two inches long; above, tawny-brown, darker on the face, head, and shoulders; below, paler, with a grey tinge on the belly. Several species of the genus inhabit the warmer parts of Africa, and one of these (P. tridens), a small species, only two inches in length, an inhabitant of Egypt and Nubia, has the posterior nose-leaf divided into three teeth towards the forehead, a character which it displays in common with an Indian species (P. Stoiiczkana), and another from Amboyna and Batchian, of still more diminutive proportions. A distinct genus (Asellia) has been proposed for the reception of these Bats. The largest species of the genus comes from Guinea and the Gold Coast, on the west coast of Africa. It is nearly five inches in length, and has received the name of Phyllorhina gigas. It is associated with two or three smaller species, and two or three others occur in Southern and Eastern Africa.
[175] Triænops persicus.
[176] This character is of special importance here, as serving to distinguish the Megaderms from the species of another family of Leaf-nosed Bats belonging to the second principal group of Microchiroptera.
[177] Megaderma lyra.
[178] See also some general remarks on the supposed carnivorous propensities of the Rhinolophidæ, [p. 281].
[179] Megaderma frons.
[180] Nycteris thebaica.
[181] Other described African species are N. capensis (Smith); N. macrotis (Dobson); N. hispida (Schreber); and N. grandis (Peters). The only species found out of Africa is the Javanese Desert Bat (N. javanica).
[182] Plecotus auritus.