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Show 726 MR. G. E. DOBSON ON THE MOLOSSI. [Nov. 7, first small upper premolar crushed in between the canine and second premolar, and rather to the outer side. Length (of an adult £ specimen, the type) : head and body 3"*5 ; tail 1"*65, tail free from membrane 1"'*0 ; head 1"*3; ear 1"*0, tragus 0"* 15 X 0"*4 ; forearm 2"*4 ; thumb 0"*35 ; second finger- metacarp. 2"*4, 1st ph. 0"*5, 2nd ph. 1"*4 ; third finger-metacarp. 2"*25, 1st ph. 0"*85, 2nd ph. 0"*6 ; fourth finger-metacarp. 1"*35, 1st ph. 0"*75, 2nd ph. 0"*3 ; tibia 0"*7 ; foot and claws 0"*5. Hab. Madagascar. Type in the Paris Museum. 12. NYCTINOMUS MOPS. Dysopes mops, F. Cuvier, Dents des Mammif. p. 49 (1825). Mops indicus, Lesson,Table du Regne Anim. Mamm. p. 18(1842) ; Peters, Monatsb. AJiad. Berl. 1869, p. 402. Nyctinomus mops, Dobson, Monogr. Asiatic Chiroptera, p. 182 (1876). Ears larger than in N. angolensis; upper three fourths of the margin of the ear-conch regularly convex, forming almost an arc of a circle; inner margins conjoined by a deep band 0"*2 high in the centre; tragus very small, quadrate; antitragus large, quadrilateral with rounded angles, nearly as high as long, separated posteriorly by a deep notch, ending abruptly anteriorly, close to the angle of the mouth. Upper lip with deep vertical wrinkles. Thumb rather long, armed with a well-developed claw; wings from the lower third of the tibia. Fur very short above and beneath; on the dorsal surface dark brown, somewhat paler beneath, extending upon the wing-membrane along the sides of the body only. Upper incisors short, separated by a small interval in front; lower incisors 4, crowded; first upper premolar very small, deciduous, in the outer angle between the closely approximated canine and second premolar. Length (of the type specimen) : head and body 3"*0 ; tail 1"*5, tail free from membrane 0"*95 ; ear 0"*95, tragus 0"*1 ; forearm 1"*8; thumb 0"*4; second finger 3"*5 ; fourth finger 1"*8; tibia 0"*7; foot and claws 0"*45. Hab. Sumatra. This species is closely allied to N. angolensis, agreeing with it in the position of the minute first upper premolar (which is quite external to the tooth-row), in the remarkable length of the thumb as compared with other species of this genus (except N. johorensis), and in the peculiar shortness of the fur. It is, however, readily distinguished by the form and size of the ears, and by other characters described above. 13. NYCTINOMUS JOHORENSIS. Molossus (Nyctinomus) johorensis, Dobson, Proc. Asiat Soc Beng. 1873, p. 22. |
