474 Mr. E. Blyth^s Notices of various Mammalia. 



animal. Taken at Mirza})ore, and presented to the Society by 

 Major R, Wroughton, to whom it is also indebted for examples 

 of the Rhinoj)oma, and for numerous other interesting speci- 

 mens. 



T. jmlcher, Elliot. — A species from Southern India^ recently 

 discovered by i\Ir. Elliot, who informs me that it is " black- 

 brown above with white pencillings, and pure white below." 

 That naturalist will give a more detailed description of it in the 

 * Madras Journal.^ 



Rhinopoma. — From descriptions with w'hich I have been fa- 

 voured, I had long felt satisfied that a bat of this genus inhabited 

 the renowned taj at Agra, where great numbers of them would 

 seem to exist ; and there can be little doubt that the species is 

 that marked RJi. Hardwickii, Gray, from India, in Mr. Water- 

 house^s catalogue of the stuffed specimens of mammalia in the 

 Zoological Society's mviseum, and also that likewise referred to 

 Hat'dwickii in INlr. Elliotts catalogue of the mammalia of the 

 Southern IMahratta country, as being found in old ruins to the 

 eastward of that province. But a specimen in the Society's col- 

 lection received from England, and said to be African, differs in 

 no respect that I can perceive, and comparing both with the 

 figure of R/i. inicrophylla in the national French work on Egypt, 

 the only difference arises from what I presume is an inaccuracy 

 in that figure, viz. that the caudal vertebrae are not represented 

 to be sufficiently elongated. Even on comparison of the skulls 

 together, and with that figured by jNI. Geoffroy, I have been 

 unable to detect any diversity worthy of notice. The following 

 description is drawn up from specimens received from Agra and 

 j\Iirzapore. Entire length (of a full-grown male) to end of the 

 long slender tail, five inches and a half', the latter passing the 

 membrane by two inches and a quarter ; expanse twelve inches 

 and a half; (length of a female five inches, by eleven inches in 

 expanse ;) fore-arm two inches and a quarter ; longest finger two 

 and three-quarters ; tibia an inch and a quarter ; foot with claws 

 five-eighths of an inch ; ears from base anteally seven-eighths of 

 an inch, posteally half an inch, and width of the joined pair, 

 from tip to tip, an inch and seven-sixteenths. Fm* very fine and 

 delicate ; its general colour a soft dull brown, paler at base, where 

 inclining towards albescent ; the face, rump, and abdominal region 

 naked, the skin of the rump corrugated, and together with the 

 face and membranes dusky, having a tinge of plumbeous ; the 

 skin of the arms underneath, and of the belly and nates in- 

 feriorly, is transparent, the latter covering an enormous accumu- 

 lation of fat, which above reaches over the loins and along the 

 spine. Nostrils closed and valvular, forming obliquely transverse 

 sKts in the truncated muzzle ; the claws conspicuously white. 



