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Presbytis shortridgei helliger, siibsp. n. 



Quite like shortridgei, but the whole coat suffused with olive- 

 brown. 



Size and fur as in shortridgei. 



Coloiir of all parts exactly as in Jwmalinus, except that an olive- 

 brown (" hair brown ") is everywhere substituted for the clear grey 

 of true liomalinus. 



Dimensions of type (recorded by collector ) : — Head and body, 

 655 ; tail, 930 ; hindfoot, 206 ; ear, "36. Skull :— Greatest length, 

 117 ; basal length, 81 ; zygomatic breadth, 92 ; braincase breadth, 

 61 ; breadth across orbits, 75 ; interorbital breadth, 12 ; cheek teeth 

 behind the canine, 30. 



Hahitat. — Hkamti, Upper Ohindwin, Burma. 



Type. — Adult male. B. M. No. 15'5-5'14. Original number 5927. 

 Collected by Messrs. G. 0. Shortridge and S. A. Macmillan on the 

 ord August 1914. Presented to the National Collection by the 

 Bombay Natural History Society. 



In all 5 specimens, all males, were obtained. 



K. — Notes on Taphozous and Saccolaimus. 



BY 



Oldfield Thomas. 



(^Published by permission of the Trustees of the British Museum . ) 



In connection with the fine material from various parts of India 

 received from the Bombay Survey, I have looked through the 

 Museum material hitherto referred to the difficult genus Taphozous, 

 and find some few points worthy of being considered as " results " 

 of the mammal survey. 



In the first place with regard to the genus. Dobson in his Cata- 

 logue divided it into two sub-genera, Taphozous and Taphonycteris, 

 on account of the absence in the latter of the radio-metacarpal 

 pouch in the wing. Quite recently Mr. Hollister* has proposed 

 that Taphonycteris should be recognised as a distinct genus, on the 

 ground of its cranial charactei's, and in this I think he is right. 

 But in using the name Taphonycteris he has overlooked the fact 

 that Saccolaiimts, Lesson, quoted both by Palmer and Miller, is 

 applicable to the group, and antedates Taphonycteris by many 

 years. 



From Taphozous, Saccolaimus is distinguishable by not having 

 the radio-metacarpal pouch, and in the skull by various characters, 

 of which the most important are the completeness of its bullae, these 

 being imperfect antero-internally in Taphozous, and its much broader 



^^ Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus, 46, p. 308. 1918. 



