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Show 1875.] MR. G. E DOBSON ON THE GENUS TAPHOZOUS. 551 The face is everywhere covered with hair, which in front of the frontal depression is very short. The fur of the back extends for a short distance upon the wing-membrane, and upon the interfemoral as far as the point perforated by the tail; the remaining part has a few short hairs. Beneath, the wing-membrane is densely covered as far as a line drawn from the middle of the humerus to the knee, the limit of the fur being strictly defined as in T. melanopogon. As in other species, a band of fur passes outwards behind the forearm to the carpus. Fur, above and beneath, white at the base, the remaining three fourths of the hairs above dark-brown, and terminal half beneath paler brown. The fur of the body rather long and dense. Length : head and body 3"*0 ; tail 1"*3 ; ear 0"*95, tragus 0"*28 ; forearm 2"*7; thumb 0"*4; second finger-metacarp. 2"*5, 1st ph. 8", 2nd ph. I"* 1 ; fourth finger 2"*45 ; tibia 1"*05 ; calcaneum 0"*8 ; foot and claws 0"*45. Hab. Australia, N e w Guinea. Type in the collection of the British Museum. 3 a. TAPHOZOUS AUSTRALIS, var. FLAVIVENTRIS. Taphozous flaviventris (Gould), Peters, P.Z.S. 1866, p. 430. This appears to be a variety only of T. australis, differing in its greater size. Prof. Peters remarks : - " This species, represented by a single male submitted to m y examination by Mr. Gould, is, although nearly related to T. australis, Gould, different in colour and in its superior size." 4. TAPHOZOUS PERFORATUS. Taphozous perforatus, Geoffroy, Descript. de l'Egypte, ii. p. 126 ; Temm. Monog. M a m m . ii. p. 281 ; Wagner, Suppl. Schreb. Saugeth. v. p. 684. Gular sac in males large, in females quite absent, chin hairy beneath ; ears shorter than the head, inner margin faintly papillate. Radio-metacarpal pouch well developed. Wings from the tibiae, about a quarter of an inch above the ankles. Extremity of tail attenuated. Fur short, dark-brown above and beneath, extending on both surfaces of the wing-membrane from the middle of the humerus to the middle of the femur, on the interfemoral membrane as far as the point perforated by the tail. Length : head and body 2"*95 ; tail0"*95 ; ear 0"*7, tragus 0" 23; forearm 2"*4 ; thumb 0"*35 ; second finger-metacarp. 2"*2, 1st ph. 0"*7, 2nd ph. 0"*9 ; fourth finger 2"*0 ; tibia 0"*9 ; foot and claws 0"*45. Hab. Egypt. Type in the collection of the Pans Museum. 5. TAPHOZOUS LONGIMANUS. Taphozous longimanus, Hardwicke, Linn. Trans, xiv. p. 525 |