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No pouch, at least in female, the usual situation of the pouch 

 completely hairy, as in melano'pocjon. Ears fairly large, the 

 anterior margin straight, slightly papillate. Colour apparently 

 as in melano]pogon. The hairs, which are about 5*6 mm. in 

 length on the back, white for their basal halves, dark brown 

 terminally, the two colours strongly contrasted. Wing mem- 

 branes brown above and below, a narrow line along the hinder 

 edge white. 



Skull as in T. melanopogon, and similarly distinguishable from 

 that of T. longimanus by its longer basial pits, but conspicuously 

 larger in all dimensions. 



Dimensions of the type : — Forearm, 62 mm. Head and body, 

 73; tail, 24; ear, 20; third finger, metacarpal 55, first phalanx, 20; 

 lower leg and hind foot (c. u.), 36. 



Skull : — Greatest length, 21 -5 ; condyle to front of canine, 

 2-12 ; interorbital breadth, 6-4 ; intertemporal breadth, 5 ; 

 mastoid breadth, 11-5; palato-sinual length, Q-7 ; maxillary tooth- 

 row, 9-8. 



Habitat. — Savu Id., East of Timor. 



Type.— Adult female in spirit, B. M. No. 97-4-18-23. Collected 

 August 1896 by Alfred Everett. Two specimens. 



Although I have not been able to examine any Javan 

 topotypical specimens of T. melano'pogon, it is evident that 

 Temminck's animal was really the smaller of the two allied 

 forms, as his figure of the skull exactly agrees with Indian 

 examples of ^^melanopogon" and the forearm length given by 

 him is only 59 mm. 



From the Australian T. australis, which is of about the same 

 size, this bat may be distinguished hj the complete absence of a 

 gular pouch, whose usual position is thickly hairy. 



Taphozous melano'pogon. 



The specimens recorded as of this species in the reports on the 

 Bombay Survey from the Ajanta Caves, close to the border of E. 

 Khandesh — Report No. 1 (Journ. Bomb. N. H. Soc, xxi., p. 399, 

 1912), are correctly so named, as are all those from localities east 

 and south of this. But those from Cutch — Report No. 3 (op. cit. 

 xxi, p. 830, 1912) — and Kathiawar, Report No. 10 (op. cit. xxii, p. 

 494, 1913) are quite a different species, and one new to the Indian 

 Fauna. This is the N. African T. pjerforatus, Geoff., which, like a 

 number of other African species, just penetrates to this north- 

 western corner of India. 



It may be distinguished from T. melanopogon by its smaller 

 size, paler colour, and the absence of the conspicuous black 

 beard which is almost always present in the male of the allied 

 species. 



