194 EEPOUT— 1880. 



Taphozous mauritiamis, Geoff. 



Taphozons dobsoni, Jentink (' Notes from the Leyden Museum,' 1879, 

 p. 123), must be referred to this species. Having suspected from the 

 description that the species, which Dr. Jentink had been good enough to 

 connect my name with, was at most a variety only of T. mmiriiiamis, I 

 sent a specimen of that species to the Leyden Museum, and had it com- 

 pared with the type of T. dobsoiii. The small fleshy pads at the base of 

 each thumb and on the sole of the foot, noted as a specific peculiarity by 

 the describer, are equally present in all other species of the genus, indeed ~ 

 in the species of most other genera of the family EuihaUonuridcc, being 

 particularly large in the sub-family Molossmce,^ having reference, I lielieve, 

 especially to progression on a flat surface, and not coming within the 

 class of accessory clinging organs described by me in my paper referred to 

 by Dr. Jentink. ^ 



Tapliozous nudiveniris, Cretzsch. 



Nyct'icejus serrafus, Heuglin (' Reise in Nordost-Afrika,' p. 36, 1877), 

 is evidently a synonym of this species. 



Noctilis leporinus, L. 



In November last, when dropping down the Sibun river, British Hon- 

 duras, by moonlight, about 6 p.m., between the tall mangroves which 

 crowd the banks, one of my companions in the boat (Dr. H. A. W. 

 Richardson, R.N.) shot a specimen of this species which was flying about 

 a yard or so above the surface of the smooth stream. The remains of some 

 of the small insects whicli were disporting themselves over the river were 

 found in his mouth, but the stomach was quite empty. Several specimens 

 of a species of Nycteribia were seen running about on the short fur. It 

 was pi-obably to get rid of such parasites, and not to catch shrimps, that 

 the individuals observed by Mr. Fraser (see ' Catal. Chiropt. B.M.,' p. 397) 

 occasionally struck the water as they flew along. 



Bhinopoma microjyJiyUuin, Geoff. 



Heuglin (' Reise in N.-O. Afrika,' 1877, ii. p. 24) has described as new 

 BJi. cordofanicum, which he distinguishes as being larger than this species. 

 The measurements given, however, are considerably less than those of the 

 type of this species, and I have no doubt that this species, as well as those 

 described by him in conjunction with Pitzinger (' Sitzungb. Akad. Wien,' 

 1866), namely, Bh. senaarense and Bh. Jonr/icaudatum, are also referable to 

 this species. 



Nyctinomus hivittatus, Heuglin. 



From the description {op. cit. p. 28), it would appear to me that the 

 names Dysopes talpinus and hepaticus, Heuglin, must be considered syno- 

 nyms of this species, which is so closely related to N. p>licatus that it can 

 scarcely be regarded as more than a local race of that species. 



Nyctinomus hrachypterm, Ptrs. 

 To the localities add Malindi, E. Africa (Fischer and Peters). 



' See my definition of that sub-family in Catal. CMrojrK B.M., pp. 402, 403. 

 ^ Vide snpra, footnote, p. 192. 



