On anew Bat from British East Africa. 263 
Lat. 24° 21’ N., long. 57° 5’ E., 170 fathoms. 
Lat. 24° 49’ N., long. 56° 56’ E., 225 fathoms. 
Lat. 25° 22’ N., long. 57° 29/ K., 107 fathoms. 
Lat. 25° 31’ N., long. 57° 14’ E., 198 fathoms. 
8. Cynoglossus Carpentert, Alcock. 
Several specimens. 
Lat, 24° 21’ N., long. 57° 5’ E., 170 fathoms. 
Lat. 24° 49’ N., long. 56° 56’ E., 225 fathoms. 
Lat. 25° 24’ N., long. 57° 27’ E., 230-243 fathoms. 
EXPLANATION OF PLATE VI. 
Parascolopsis Townsendi, natural size. 
XXXIL.—A new Scotophiline Bat from British Hast Africa, 
with the Description of a new Genus of the Group. By 
OLDFIELD ‘THOMAS. 
AMONG some small mammals sent to the British Museum by 
Mr. 8. L. Hinde occurs the skin, with skull, of a Scotophiline 
bat which does not appear to have been described, and which 
I propose to name in honour of its collector, who has con- 
tributed large numbers of specimens at various times to the 
National Museum. 
It is allied only to Scotophilus albofuscus, 'Thos.*, and 
S. hirundo, de Wint.t, and with them forms a special group, 
which, on a reconsideration of the question, and fortitied by 
the published opinion of Mr, de Winton, I propose to regard 
as a genus. 
This may be called 
Scotecus, gen. nov. 
Like Scotophilus, but with the following special characters :— 
The two lower premolars are subequal, instead of the first 
being far smaller than the second; the upper canines are 
flattened and grooved anteriorly ; the last upper molars have 
much larger posterior lobes, so that they are triangular instead 
of equally narrow externally and internally ; the talon of the 
last lower molar is bi- or tricuspidate and practically as large 
in cross-section as the main part of the tooth; the brain- 
* Ann. Mus. Genov. (2) ix. p. 84 (1890). 
fy Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) iv. p. 355 (1899). 
