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intertemporal breadth, 5 ; palato-sinual length, 8.4 ; maxillary tooth- 

 row, 12.2. 



Habitat. — Palestine and Mesopotamia. Type and two paratypes 

 from the Euphrates, other specimens from Fao, Persian Gulf 

 (W. D. Gumming) and the Lake of Galilee (H. B. Tristram). 



%je.— Adult male. B. M. No. 50.10.21.3. Collected during 

 the Euphrates expedition. 



The colour of the Palestine examples is doubtful, as they are 

 spirit specimens in somewhat bad condition, but geographically they 

 should belong to the Babylonian race. 



A Taijliozous from Muscat, which might have been expected 

 to be this form, proves to be assignable to the Egyptian T. 

 nudiventris. 



Taphozo'us iMchhensis nudaster. 



Colour practically as in l:achhensis, but fur shorter and poorer. 



Size slightly less than in true kachhensis. Fur both above and 

 beloAv excessively short and thin, the hairs of the posterior half of 

 the back hardly more than two mm. in length, and so sparse and 

 poor that the light bases of the hairs are visible, even in smoothly 

 brushed specimens. In hachhensis the fur is normal and close, and 

 the light bases of the hairs hidden. The bases themselves are white 

 for their basal and brown for their terminal halves, but the brown is 

 of a rather more purplish tinge than in hachhensis. 



Skull as in hachhensis but on the average a little smaller. The 

 type has an unusually broad intertemporal space, but other specimens 

 are as in hachhensis. 



Dimensions of the tj^pe : — Forearm, 78 mm. Head and body, 

 102; tail, 35; ear, 22.5; third finger, 129. 



Skull: — Greatest length, 27.8; length from condyle to front of 

 canine, 24.6 ; zygomatic breadth, 17.2 ; interorbital breadth, 8.4; 

 intertemporal breadth, 5-7; palato-sinual length, 7-4; maxillary 

 tooth-row, 11. 



Habitat. — Dry zone of Burma. Typical series from Pagan, near 

 Mt. Popa. 



Type. — Adult male. B. M. No. 14.7.19.46. Original number 

 4176. Collected 27th October 1913 by G. C. Shortridge. Presented 

 by the Bombay Natural History Society. Ten specimens. 



The difference in the pelage is so marked in all the considerable 

 number of specimens examined that it seems to justify the recogni- 

 tion of the Burmese race as a distinct sub-species. 



Ta'phowas theohaldi. Dobs. 



The range of this species, which has been recorded from Tenas- 

 serim, Malaj'- Peninsula and Java, has been recently greatlj'' extended 



