1875.]  MR.G.E DOBSON ON THE GENUS TAPHOZOUS. 551 
The face is everywhere covered with hair, which in front of the 
frontal depression is very short. The fur of the back extends for a 
short distance upon the wing-membrane, and upon the interfemoral 
as far as the point perforated by the tail; the remaining part has a 
few short hairs. Beneath, the wing-membrane is densely covered 
as far as a line drawn from the middle of the humerus to the knee, 
the limit of the fur being strictly defined as in T. melanopogon. As 
in other species, a band of fur passes outwards behind the forearm 
to the carpus. 
Fur, above and beneath, white at the base, the remaining three 
fourths of the hairs above dark-brown, and terminal half beneath 
paler brown. The fur of the body rather long and dense. 
Length: head and body 3-0; tail 1-3; ear 0'-95, tragus 0''-28 ; 
forearm 2""-7; thumb 04; second finger—metacarp. 2"5, Ist ph. 
8", 2nd ph. I" 1; fourth finger 2'"45 ; tibia 1°05; caleaneum 0!8 ; 
foot and claws 0'45. 
Hab. Australia, New Guinea. 
Type in the collection of the British Museum. 
3a. TAPHOZOUS AUSTRALIS, var. FLAVIVENTRIS. 
Taphozous flaviventris (Gould), Peters, P. Z.S. 1866, p. 430. 
This appears to be a variety only of 7’. australis, differing in its 
greater size. Prof. Peters remarks :—“ This species, represented by 
a single male submitted to my examination by Mr. Gould, is, although 
nearly related to T. australis, Gould, different in colour and in its 
superior size.”’ 
4. TAPHOZOUS PERFORATUS. 
Taphozous perforatus, Geoffroy, Descript. de l Egypte, ii. p. 126 ; 
Temm. Monog. Mamm. ii. p. 281 ; Wagner, Suppl. Schreb. Saugeth. 
v. p. 684. 
Gular sac in males large, in females quite absent, chin hairy be- 
neath ; ears shorter than the head, inner margin faintly papillate. 
Radio-metacarpal pouch well developed. 
Wings from the tibiee, about a quarter of an inch above the ankles. 
Extremity of tail attenuated. 
Fur short, dark-brown above and beneath, extending on both sur- 
faces of the wing-membrane from the middle of the humerus to the 
middle of the femur, on the interfemoral membrane as far as the 
point perforated by the tail. 
Length : head and body 2'-95 ; tail 0-95 ; ear 0''-7, tragus 0"'23 ; 
forearm 2-4; thumb 0/-35 ; second finger—metacarp. gH -9. Askpos 
0"-7, 2nd ph. 0-9; fourth finger 2'-0; tibia 0-9; foot and claws 
0"-45. 
Hab. Egypt. 
Type in the collection of the Paris Museum. 
5. TAPHOZOUS LONGIMANUS. 
Taphozous longimanus, Hardwicke, Linn. Trans. xiv. p. 925 
