1861.] MR. R. F. TOMES ON BATS FROM S.W. AFRICA. 3" 



The head is very short ; the muzzle short and obtuse, but not very 

 broad or depressed, behig about as deep as it is wide. The forehead 

 is elevated in only a trifling degree above the facial line ; the nostrils 

 are somewhat prominent, rather small, and open sublaterally, almost 

 laterally ; they are nearly round, with a narrow posterior elongation 

 or slit not exceeding in length the diameter of the nostril ; the lips 

 are simple, thick, and rather overhanging. The ears are small, of 

 an irregular roundish ovoid form, their inner margin having a kind 

 of lobe, the lower outline of which projects downwards over the fore- 

 head, and is there distinct ; but blends off in an upward and outward 

 direction to the tip of the ear, which is rounded, and has a somewhat 

 outward direction ; the outer margin approaches in some degree to 

 a straight line, and a very narrow piece of membrane passes forward 

 along the side of the head to near the corner of the mouth, where it 

 terminates in a small fleshy lobulus of a rounded form. The ear- 

 conch is rather thin, but not papillated, and has a few distinct sulci 

 near its outer margin, and a longitudinal seam near the inner one. 

 The tragus is broad and short, and shaped somewhat like that of the 

 S, borealis of Europe. Outwardly at its base is a descending point, 

 and above this a broad notch, which varies in depth, but is usually 

 rather shallow ; and above this it is of nearly equal breadth, the 

 outer margin being rounded, and forming with the inner margin, 

 which is nearly straight, a blunt angular tip, which is directed in- 

 wards. 



The penultimate phalange of the thumb is a little longer than the 

 basal one, the claw short and not very hooked. Toes rather longer 

 than the remaining part of the foot ; the claws small and black. 

 Wing-membranes extending barely to the roots of the toes. Calca- 

 neum long, with a considerable cartilaginous lobe near the middle of 

 its lower edge. 



The fur of the forehead extends almost to the end of the nose, in 

 some specimens quite as far forward as the nostrils ; the sides of the 

 face sprinkled rather thickly with fine, short, whitish hairs ; over the 

 eye and between it and the nostrils are some longish black ones, 

 which are straight and stiff. Inside the ears are a few fine adpressed 

 hairs ; and their outer surface is thickly clothed with fine fur for half- 

 way from their base. The fur of the back extends on to the mem- 

 branes on all parts, but to a greater extent on the interfemoral mem- 

 brane than anywhere else. Beneath, it spreads on to the membranes, 

 chiefly on and under the humerus, occupying the space (but not 

 thickly) between the elbow and the knee. On their upper surfaces 

 the toes are clothed with fine adpressed hairs ; but the other parts of 

 the foot are perfectly naked. 



On all parts of the body the fur is long, soft, and unicoloured, or 

 very nearly so ; that of ihe upper parts cream-coloured, palest on 

 the head and neck, and becoming considerably darker on the hinder 

 part of the back and on the interfemoral membrane ; beneath, it is of 

 a dirty-white colour. All that of the body, but not of the mem- 

 branes, has a slight ashy tinge at its roots. 



The membranes are so peculiarly marked as to deserve especial 



