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3. CHALINOLOBUS GOULDI, Gray, sp. (1841). 

 Gould's Bat. 



Ears rather angular on the upper half, the tips rounded. Tragus 

 broad above, the tip subtruncate. Nostrils prominent above, 

 separated on each side by a small sulcus from the well developed 

 glandular prominences. Lower lip with a distinct fleshy lobe. 

 Postcalcaneal lobe well developed and rounded. Extreme tip of 

 the tail projecting. Fur above on the head, neck, and shoulders 

 black with a very faint reddish tinge ; the back yellowish-brown; 

 below, the breast reddish or ashy, the abdomen, sides, wing- and 

 interfemoral membranes pale yellowish-white. 



Dimensions. Head and body about two and a half inches ; tail 

 about two and a quarter inches; forearm about one and four-fifths 

 inch. 



Habitat. Eastern and South-eastern Australia, and Tasmania. 



References. Dobson, B.M. Catal. Chiropt. p. 250, pi. xiv. figs. 

 4 (side vieiv of head), 4a (interfemoral membrane J, 4b (upper 

 incisors); Gould, Mamm. Austr. iii. pi. xl. 



4. CHALINOLOBUS NIGEOGRISEUS, Gould, sp. (1863). 



Pied or Blackish-gray Bat. 



Ears very rhomboidal ; the tip rounded. Tragus expanded 

 outwards above. Nostrils prominent on the upper surface of the 

 muzzle, projecting slightly by their inner margins in front, and 

 closer together than those of any other species of the genus. Post- 

 calcaneal lobe well developed and rounded. Last rudimentary 

 joint of the tail free. Fur above deep black with gray or pale 

 brown tips to the hairs ; below similar but with ashy tips. 



Dimensions. Head and body about one and three-fourths inch; 

 tail and forearm each one and one-third inch. 



Habitat. Northern and Eastern Australia. 



References. Dobson, B.M. Catal. Chiropt. p. 251, pi. xiv. figs. 3 

 (ear], 3a (muzzle); Gould, Mamm. Austr. iii. pis. xliii. (Scotophilus 

 picatus), xliv. fS. nigrogriseus}. 



Genus IV. SCOTOPHILUS, Leach (1822). 



Form stout. Muzzle short, obtusely conical, naked; glandular 

 prominences variable. Crown of the head but little elevated 

 above the face line. Nostrils close together, simple, lunate, open- 

 ing to the front or sublaterally, their inner margins projecting. 

 Ears short, longer than broad, with rounded tips. Tragus taper- 

 ing, subacutely pointed, and curved inwards. Terminal rudi- 

 mentary vertebra of tail protruding beyond the interfemoral 

 membrane. Calcaneum weak. Wings attached to, or close to 



