new Bats from the Cameroons. 635 
Body large as compared with the short forearms and legs. 
Muzzle short, upper lip distinctly furrowed. ars short, 
opaque, their tips broadly rounded; inner margins united 
at base ; anterior margin without minute horny points ; 
antitragus as high as long, with a deep notch behind it; keel 
thickened below, but not flattened externally. Tragus minute, 
almost linear; a separate, very distinct, external basal pro- 
jection developed halfway between its outer base and the 
inner side of the antitragus. Fur short, close, and velvety ; 
hairs of back barely 24 mm. long, tufts * of long hairs (about 
> inch in length) placed on each side of the rump ; fur con- 
fined to body throughout, except a narrow rim along each 
side below. Colour dark brownish chestnut, the glandular 
hairs behind the junction of the ears black. Penis projecting ~ 
but little from the surrounding flesh, without special scent- 
glands. 
Premaxille separated, but the opening between them 
small; anteorbital crests scarcely developed; sagittal crest 
low ; lambdoid crest strong, forming a prominent projection 
on each side of the middle line. Lower jaw unusually thick 
and heavy. 
Upper incisors thick, vertical, parallel, well separated. 
Anterior premolar small, but standing in the tooth-row, and 
separating the canine from the large premolar. Lower 
incisors four, bifid, overlapping. Lower premolars very 
abnormal in being subequal, the anterior scarcely shorter 
than the posterior. Molars unusually low-crowned, their 
vertical height considerably less than that of the thick 
mandibular ramus. 
Dimensions of the type (measured on the spirit-specimen) :— 
Forearm 41 mm. 
Head and body 75; tail 32; ear 17; tragus on inner 
edge 1:2; third finger, metacarpus 40, first phalanx 17, 
second phalanx 16; fifth finger, metacarpus 26, first pha- 
lanx 9, second phalanx 4; lower leg 15, lower leg and foot 
(s. u.) 23. 
Skull: greatest length 20; zygomatic breadth 12°5 ; front 
of canine to back of m? 7-3. 
Ilab. Efulen, Cameroons. 
Type. Old male. Collected by Mr. G. L. Bates. Three 
specimens. 
By Dobson’s synopsis this bat comes near V. pumilus, but 
may be readily distinguished from that species by its larger 
size and the many peculiarities, external and cranial, described 
above. 
* These tufts appear to occur in many species, though seldom so well 
developed as in the present animal, 
