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Skull, basal length in middle line 13 fc 7, greatest breadth 13, combined 

 lengths of upper premolar and first two molars 4*7, front of lower canine 

 to back of m 3 7*3. 



Type.—B. M. 97, 6, 8, 12. 



This bat may be readily distinguished from Scotophilus kuhlu by its 

 much smaller size and the absence of a yellowish suffusion in the colour, 

 while from S. emarginatus^ of about the same size, it differs by the 

 presence of a ridge across its tragus, by its ear not being markedly 

 emarginated and by the different colour of its fur. 



It is perhaps most nearly allied to the African S. nigrita, of which it 

 may be the Indian representation, but is distinguished by its smaller 

 size and whitish belly. 



The discovery of so marked a new species as Scotophilus wroughtoni 

 shows how far from being worked out the bats of India are. I have 

 ventured to name the species in honour of Mr. Wroughton, to whom 

 mammalogical science is already indebted for the discovery of the 

 peculiar pale squirrel described by Mr. Blanford in this number of the 

 Journal. 



6. TAPHOZOUS LONG IMAN US, Hardw. 



a. $. Mandvi, 2nd April, 1897, 



