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BULLETIN : MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. 



MEASUREMENTS OF PTERYGISTES LASIOPTERUS. 



The skull of No. 6929 meas\ires : greatest length, 22; basal length, 19.8; 

 palatal length, 11; interorbital constriction, 5.6; mastoid breadth, 13; mandible, 

 17.2 ; maxillary tooth row (exclusive of incisors), 8.6 ; mandibular tooth row 

 (exclusive of incisors), 9.3. 



Eptesicus nasutus (Dobson). 



This species seems to be rare in collections. A skin with skull from Amballa, 

 India, agrees almost exactly with the measurements given by Dobson for the tvpe 

 from Scinde, India. He states, however, tliat the wing and interfemoral mem- 

 branes are almost naked, but in our specimen the interfemoral is thinly haired 

 from the knee about to the end of the third caudal vertebra. The following 

 measurements are from the skin, No. 5147, from Amballa: forearm, 37; third 

 finger, metacarpal, 34.5 ; 1st phalanx, 13 ; 2d phalanx, 11 ; 4th digit, metacarpal, 

 35 ; 1st phalanx, 12 ; 2d phalanx, 8 ; 5th finger, metacarpal, 34; 1st phalanx, 9; 

 2d phalanx, 6; tibia, 14; foot, 7- 



The skull approaches tliat of Vespertilio in the rather strongly marked con- 

 cavity between the orbit and the nares on each side, but the nasal emargination is 

 shallow, as in other members of the genus Eptesicus. The dimensions of the 

 skull are : total length, 14-2; basal length, 13; palatal length, 7-5; interorbital 

 constriction, 3.7 ; zygomatic breadth, 9.3 ; mastoid breadth, S ; mandible. 10.5 ; 

 maxillary tooth row (exclusive of incisors), 5 ; mandibular tooth row (exclusive 

 of incisors), 5.5. 



Scabrifer^ notius, sp. nov. 



Tjfpe. — Adult male, alcoholic. No. 4555, Museum of Comparative Zoology; col- 

 lected at Cape Town, Africa, and received from E. L. Layard. 



General Characters. — Size as in S.floweri (De Winton), but the fur very dark 

 basally, with light tips. The curious wart-like papillae characteristic of this genus 



1 Soabrifer, new name for Rhinopterus Miller, 1906, preoccupied by Rhinoptera 

 Kuhl, 1841. 



