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Show 320 PROF. R. COLLETT ON MAMMALS [Mar. 16, Shin. The single specimen is a male ; length of forearm 35 Skull. The minute first upper premolar is absent on the left side. Hah. Rare at Roebuck Bay, not seen in Arnhem Land. 6. VESPERUGO TENUIS (Temm.), 1835-41. Vesperugo tenuis, Dobs. Cat. Chir. Brit. Mus. p. 226 (1878) (Sumatra, Java, Borneo). N. W. Australia: Roebuck Bay, Nov. 1895 (one specimen). Skin. The specimen agrees in all details with Dobson's description. Length of cubitus 30 mm. Colour greyish brown, scarcely darker at the base of the hairs ; beneath more ashy. The muzzle (with the glandular prominences) covered with short hairs, interspersed with a few longer hairs ; only the nostrils are perfectly naked. Skull. Outer cusp of first upper incisor shorter than inner cusp ; upper I2 a little shorter than outer cusp of ll. Hah. V. tenuis has been recorded from Sumatra, Java, and Borneo, but had not previously, so far as is known, been found in Australia. At Roebuck Bay (N.W. Australia) it was rare, like the other species. Fam. RHINOLOPHIDCE. 7. HIPPOSIDERUS MUSCINUS (Thos. et Doria), 1886. Phyllorhlna musclna, Thos. et Doria, Ann. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. Genova, ser. 2, vol. iv. p. 201 (1886). N. Australia: Mary River, May 7th, 1895 (two specimens). Skin. Both specimens are females (like those obtained by d'Albertis in New Guinea). Length of forearm 43 mm. and 44 mm. The nose-leaf is alike in both, and perfectly agrees with the figure in Thomas and Doria's description of the typical specimens. Hab. This species is new to the Australian fauna. It had hitherto only been found on the Fly River, in New Guinea, by d'Albertis. In Arnhem Land it was not uncommon on the Mary River, and several specimens were found resting in the caves, some few hanging close together. Fam. EMBALLONURIDCE. 8. TAPHOZOUS AUSTRALIS, Gould, 1854. Taphozous australis, Dobs. Cat. Chir. Brit. Mus. p. 382 (1878) Ogilby, Cat. Austral. Mamm. p. 96 (1892). N. Australia: Mary River, May 10th, 1895 (four specimens). Skin. One specimen is a male, the rest females ; no air-sac is developed on the throat of the male. Length of forearm 67-69 mm. Hah. Numerous on the Mary River, found in the caves in company with Hipposiderus muscinus. |
