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MR. R. F. TOMKS ON BATS FROM S.W. AFRICA. [Jan. 22, 



second resembles in shape the first and only one in S. minutus, 

 which it represents. The true molars do not need mention ; and the 

 lower jaw with its teeth is so much like that of S. minutus, that it 

 may in like manner be dismissed. 



SCOTOPHILUS CAPENSIS. 



Vespertilio ccqiensis, Smith, South Afr. Journ. new series, v. p. 1, 

 1832. 



V. minutus. Smith, 111. Zool. S. Afr. 1848. 



I possess a specimen of a Bat which formerly formed part of the 

 Museum of the Zoological Society, and was labelled " Vesp. capensis. 

 Cape of Good Hope, collected by Mons. Verreaux," and is most 

 likely the one given in the Catalogue prepared by Mr. Waterhouse, 

 as the specimen was received the year before the publication of the 

 catalogue. It is obviously the same species as the one figured by 

 Sir Andrew Smith under the name of F. minutus, which species it 

 resembles so exactly in all respects save that of size, that I shall con- 

 tent myself with giving the dimensions with those of the two last 

 species. The greater size of this one will be quite sufficient to distin- 

 guish it. 



In the following table of dimensions, the column which gives those 

 of S. capensis has been taken from the specimen from the Zoological 

 Society. The first one of S. minutus is from a North African spe- 

 cimen in my own collection, which has been compared with the spe- 

 cimen in the Leyden Museum, and the second one from the latter 

 specimen itself. The fourth column (S. kuhlii) from a specimen 

 collected in Algeria by the Rev. H. B. Tristram ; and the remaining 

 two columns are devoted to the two specimens of the new species, 

 which I have called S. rusiicus. 



S. capensis. 



Length of the head and body 

 of the head 



S. minutus. 



of the ears 



of the tragus 



of the fore-arm .... 



of the thumb 



of the first finger . 



of the second finger 



of the third finger ... 



of the fourth finger. . . 



of the tibia 



of the foot and claws 



of the tail 



of the OS calcis 



Expanse of wings 



Total length of skull 



in. lin. 



2 2 

 8 

 5 



2| 

 6 



H 







11 



1. 



in. lin, 

 1 10 



7 



2 

 2i 



2* 







3 







9 



5f 



3 



5 



6 



3 



2. 



in. lin. 

 1 9 

 



2 1 



I'V 



5| 



8 6 



S. Jaihlii 



in. lin. 

 1 10 





 

 



1 







7 



H 



2i 



3 



3 



2 3 

 1 10 

 1 7 





 

 1 

 

 9 

 



54 



3 



4 



hi 



4 



6 



)S. rustieus. 



1. 



in. lin. 

 1 6 



2. 



in. lin. 



1 7 



! 6i 



3J 



If 



1 2 



4^ 



3 



1 2 

 5 



7 8 



2| 



1 







8 



5 



a 



2f 



5 



8 



5t 



ScOTOiPHILUS VARIF.GATUS, n. S. 



This handsome species ii about the size of the S. leisleri of Europe. 



