Defn: A division of Cheiroptera, including the bloodsucking bats.
The common large bloodsucking leech of America (Macrobdella decora) is dark olive above, and red below, with black spots.
Note: In the mouth of bloodsucking leeches are three convergent, serrated jaws, moved by strong muscles.
The really bloodsucking Bats of this family belong to the genera Desmodus and Diphylla.
This structure was at one time thought to indicate a {532} bloodsucking habit; but its use appears to be merely that of scooping out the soft insides of fruits, upon which the Bat mainly lives.
In the mouth of bloodsucking leeches are three convergent, serrated jaws, moved by strong muscles.
A division of Cheiroptera, including thebloodsucking bats.
Insects were altogether too abundant, and even when travelling slowly it was impossible always to avoid them--not to speak of our constant companions the bees, mosquitoes, and especially the boroshudas or bloodsucking flies.
