472 Mr. E. Btyth^s Notices of various Mammalia. 



still less developed. Colour dusky brown^ paler beneath. In- 

 habits Southern India. 



Taphozous. — Three new species of this genus have been de- 

 scribed by me m Journ. A. S. x. 971 et seq. ; and in xi. 784, I 

 verified and gave a more detailed notice of the T. longimanuSy 

 Hardvi^., Linn. Trans, xiv. 525, and distinguished the species 

 which I had previously referred with doubt to T. longimanus, by 

 the appellation T. Cantori. This last-mentioned bat I have not 

 again obtained in the neighbourhood of Calcutta, but have re- 

 ceived a specimen from Mr. Jerdon, procured in the vicinity of 

 Nellore (on the Coromandel coast), where it would appear to be 

 not uncommon. This species is easily recognised by its flatly 

 out-lying ears, recurved tail, little-developed gular sac, and by 

 the whiteness of the base of its fur, which shows conspicuously. 



Another species from Southern India is my T. brevicaudus, 

 which is at once distinguished from all the other known species 

 by the shortness of its tail and interfemoral membrane. The 

 specimen was from Travancore. 



Since my description of T. longimanus was published, I have 

 had several fresh specimens, and very recently obtained thirteen 

 alive (of which two only were males) from the interval between 

 a pillar and the wall against which it was placed. Five others 

 escaped. These bats clung with perfect facility to the smooth 

 mahogany back of a cage into which they were put, hitching 

 their claws in the minute pores of the wood, and creeping upon 

 it in a manner that was surprising. The females were each about 

 to give birth to a single ofispring (early in August). Their size 

 was remarkably uniform, both sexes measuring four inches and 

 a quarter from snout to tail-tip, by sixteen and a quarter in alar 

 expanse ; the tail protruding half an inch ; nostril not closed, 

 but having a valvular kidney-shaped orifice, and tremulous, as 

 observable in various other bats (for instance, the Cynopterus 

 marginatus). The variation in colour was not great, nor had it 

 any relation to sex ; but one or two were more hoary-tipped, im- 

 parting an ashy appearance^ and one only was marked with yel- 

 lowish or fulvescent. 



I have also procured in this vicinity specimens of my T. ful- 

 viditSj and supply the following description of a recent male that 

 was shot early one morning, in bright daylight, creeping upon 

 the stem of a palm. Length, to end of tail, four inches, the 

 membrane extending three-quarters of an inch further; tail 

 seven-eighths of an inch, and (as usual) wholly retractile within 

 the membrane ; alar expanse fifteen inches ; length of fore-arm 

 two and three-eighths; tarse an inch; foot and claws half an 

 inch. General colour slightly grizzled chestnut-brown, purer on 

 head and neck ; the abdominal region covered with shorter hair, 



