some new African Bats. a1 
zygomatic breadth 13; breadth of frontal shield 7:8; upper 
tooth-row, from front of canine to back of m.’, 7°5. 
_ The measurements of an adult spirit-specimen are given by 
Dobson (P. Z. S. 1879, p. 718) under the name of N. ethio- 
pica. In that specimen the tail is 59 millim. long and the 
lower leg and foot 37, just about the same as in the type. 
On the other hand, in a series of true wthiopica from Shendy, 
Soudan, therefore practically topotypes, the tail does not 
exceed 53 millim., and the lower leg with foot 33 millim., 
these measurements being very uniform in all. 
Hab. Kitui, British East Africa, alt. 3500 feet. Another 
specimen from Zanzibar. 
Type. Female. B.M. no. 1.5.6.4. Collected 14th Feb- 
ruary, 1901, and presented by §. L. Hinde, Esq. 
The original series of N. wthiopica, from Kordofan, consists 
of three faded skins, with imperfect skulls ; but fortunately, 
just as Mr. Hinde’s specimen needed determination, the Mu- 
seum has been presented by Messrs. N. C. Rothschild and 
A. F. R. Wollaston with a very nice set, both skins and 
spirit-specimens, from Shendy, on the Upper Nile, and these 
have enabled me to satisfy myself as to the constancy of the 
dig*inguishing characters of the new form. 
As already indicated, the example from Zanzibar, referred 
to by Dobson (P. Z. 8. 1879, p. 718), proves to belong, as 
might be expected, to N. @. luteola. 
Vespertilio platyops, sp. n. 
A large pale-coloured species, with the bicuspid incisors of 
V. serotinus, but with a broad blunt tragus. 
Size rather less than in the Serotine. Head very flat. 
Ears of medium length, their inner margin strongly convex 
in its basal third, evenly slightly convex above to the rounded 
tip; outer margin slightly concave above, then convex to the 
notch, and ending in a low rounded lobe. Tragus broad, 
expanded above its broadest point at about the middle of its 
inner margin; Inner margin straight, joining above at a 
rounded angle the strongly convex outer margin; a small 
triangular external basal lobule present. 
Wings from the base of the toes. A small postcalcareal 
lobule. Tail projecting from the membrane by the last 
vertebra. 
Colour above (in spirit) uniform dull fawn or sandy; below 
dull whitish. Membranes brown, the plagiopatagium and 
interfemoral inconspicuously edged with whitish behind. 
Skull very broad and flat ; crests meeting posteriorly, but 
