246 Mr. 0. Thomas on new 



indebted, as is evidenced by the large number of species that 

 bear his name, while no one also has done more to encourage 

 younger travellers to take up the subject on which he spent 

 the whole energy of his life. 



Taphozous longimanus albipinnis, subsp. n. 



Similar to the typical form in all essential respects, but 

 with the wing-membranes white, below throughout, above 

 external to a line drawn from the forearm to the ankle. The 

 forearms themselves, a narrow fringe of membrane just ex- 

 ternal to them, and the upper surfaces of the fingers are brown 

 above as usual. 



Forearm of the type (an adult female) 56 millim. 



Hah. Labuan. Coll. A. Everett, Sept. 1892. 



Type B.M. no. 93. 4. 1. 29. 



Four other Bornean specimens* are similarly white- 

 winged, and there is also a white-winged specimen in the 

 Museum collection from Malacca collected long ago by Mr. A. 

 Charlton. It is probable therefore that this subspecies will 

 prove to range all over Western Malaysia. On the other 

 hand, in Flores there occurs T. longimanus leucopleurus, Dobs., 

 which, while with white sides, has the brown wings of 

 T. longimanus typicus. All the names in the synonymy of 

 T. longimanus were founded on Indian specimens, none on 

 Malayan. 



Chimarrogale phceura, sp. n. 



Closely allied to Ck. himalaica, but slightly smaller, and 

 with the uppersides of the hands and feet, the fringes of 

 swimming-hairs surrounding the digits, and the whole under- 

 side of the tail uniformly dark brown. In Ch. himalaica the 

 outer halves of the hands and feet, the swimming-bristles on 

 the fingers and toes, and the underside of the tail are all 

 white, in the last-named part contrasting markedly with its 

 brown upper surface. 



Dimensions of the type (an adult male, measured in 

 skin) : — 



Head and body (much overstretched) 120 millim. ; tail 82 ; 

 hind foot 21. Of another specimen in spirit (female) : head 

 and body 92; tail 75; hind foot 21-3. 



Skull ( ? ) : basal length to front of incisors 23 ; greatest 

 breadth 12*7; breadth across palate 7'3 ; length of upper 

 tooth-series 1 1*8 ; tip of incisors to tip of large premolars 5*5. 



* In one Bornean specimen, however, without exact locality, the wings 

 are browner than usual above, although still white below. 



