CATALOGUE* 41 



This species represents the V. pictus in continental India. It is 

 somewhat larger in size, and generally of a lighter colour ; underneath, 

 pale yellow. 



NOCTILIONINA, Gray, Catal Mamm. Br. Mus. 



Syst. List, XI X^ 

 Genus TAPHOZOUS, Geoff. 



SACCOPTERYX, lllig. 

 SACCOLAIMUS, Kuhl. 



68. TAPHOZOUS LONGIMANUS, Hardw. 



Taphozous longimanus, Hardw., Titans. Linn. Soc. XIV. 

 p. 525, t. 17. Temm., Monogr. II. 289. Gray, Cat. 

 Mamm. Br. Mus. p. 33. Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. XIII. 

 p. 490. 



HAB. Continental India ; abundant in many localities. 

 A. B. Presented by the Asiatic Society of Bengal. 

 Several dried specimens from different localities. 



General Hardwicke states that this Bat is common in Calcutta in 

 dark store-rooms ; at night it frequents habitations, attracted by the 

 light of candles and numerous insects. In his notices of various Mam- 

 malia (Journ. As. Soc. Beng. XIII. p. 490), Mr. H. Blyth informs us, 

 " That he recently obtained thirteen individuals alive (of which two 

 only were males) from the interval between a pillar and the wall against 

 which it was placed. 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." 



69. TAPHOZOUS MELANOPOGON, Temm., Monogr. 

 II. p. 287, pi. LX.yy. 8, 9, head and cranium. 



HAB. Western coast of Peninsular India. Caves of Canara. 

 It bas also been noticed rarely in the district of Bantam, 

 in Java, in tbe caverns inhabited by the esculent swallow. 



A. From the Caves of Canara. Presented by Dr. Wight, 

 of the Madras Medical Service. 



Genus CHEIROMELES, Horsfield, Zool Research. 

 DYSOPES, Temminck. 

 MOLOSSUS, Fischer et al. 



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