56 African Zooluyy. 



covered with a dense short fur intermixed witli some lor.g fiuc 

 hairs. Length from nose to base of tail three inches and a 

 quarter ; ot tail an inch and a quarter ; expanse of wings about 

 thirteen inclies. 



Inhabits Mohila and South Africa, — common near CapeTown. 



Rhinolophus Capensis, Licht. Verzeichn der Doubl. p. 4. 

 Khinolophus Gcoffroyii, Smith, Zcol. Journ. vol. ii. p 433. 



Genus NycTERis. Geoffroy. 



Incisors *, caniyies ! \, molars \ \ — 30. Superior incisors very 

 small, contiguous, and bilobed ; inferior trilohed : molars crowned 

 with pointed tubercles; nostrils covered, each by a moveable ope- 

 culum ; forehead zuith a deep longitudinal groove; interfemoral 

 vieinbrane large, and including the tail, which is terminated in 

 the form cf the letter T. 



Nycteiis Thtbaica. (Geoffroy's Nycteris.) The surface 

 colour of the back of the head and neck tawny or pale ferru- 

 ginous, of the sides of the neck bright ferruginous, of the 

 back a clear or a dull brown, and of the under parts of the 

 neck and body a fawn or a dull greyish white : the bases 

 of the hairs of the head and neck dark reddish brown, of 

 those of the back dark dull brown, and of those of the under 

 parts dark brown or blackish. Ears very long and broad, dark 

 blackish brown, veined longitudinally, and both surfaces with a 

 very thin sprinklinnf of fine short whitish hairs; tragus spiral 

 and with a tuft of whitish hair on its point. Four membrana- 

 ceous processes on the face in addition to those lying over the 

 nostrils, viz. one immediately before the inner edge of the base 

 of each ear, and another about half way between that and the 

 nostril ; all of them concealed by fur ; a bare spot on the chin, 

 shaped somewhat like the letter V, and on its anterior edge a 

 small warty excrescence ; wing and interfemoral membranes 

 brown. Length from nose to base of tail three inches ; of tail 

 two inches ; of ears nearly an inch ; expanse of wings eleven 

 inches. 



Inhabits Egypt and South Africa. 



Geoffrey's Egypt, torn ii. pi. 1. fig. 2, and slullf. A,f. 111. 

 Ann. du Mus. torn xx. p. 20 Nycteris, Geoffroyii, Desm. 

 Mam. 127. Nycteris affinis, Smith, Zoological Journal, vol. ii. 

 p. 433. Nycteris aflBnis, 0. c. (junior^. 



Obt. When specimens from the Cape and Egypt are accurately com- 

 pared together, I am inclined to think they will be found to be of differ- 

 ent species. 



Genus Rhinopoma. Geoffroy. 



Incisors |, canines ] \, molars i i, — 28. Nose long, truncated 

 and surmounted by a small leaf, nostrils operculated ; forehead 



