Dr Smith on a Fruit-Eating Bat of Old Calabar. 371 



interfemoral and caudal membranes ; enabling them thus to 

 change and vary at will their most rapid flight in pursuit of 

 their varied and active insect prey. It is stated, as Mr 

 Dobson also tells us, that they can at pleasure curl upwards 

 and inwards the long tail and its inclosing membranes, and 

 thus add to their facilities in capturing, as in a trap, and 

 seizing for food, the larger and more active insects. 



It gives me much pleasure to send this series of Old Cala- 

 bar bats to my friend Dr A. Gliuther, to be added to the 

 valuable collections of the British Museum. 



