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same specimen I have, in one instance, observed it dissimilar in the 

 two ears. In its general form it resembles the same part in the last 

 species, but it is much less attenuated towards the tip, and the outer 

 margin has a less distinctly angular projection. At its base it is of 

 average width, from which it expands rather rapidly, and proceeds 

 outwards for the distance of about a line, when it takes an upward 

 direction, and becoming narrower, ends in a rounded tip. This 

 change of direction from horizontal to vertical leaves an angle at 

 its outer edge, which is nearly a right angle, whilst its inner edge 

 maintains a pretty regular concave line from the base to the tip. 

 In one instance, above alluded to, I have observed it in one ear only 

 of full breadth at the base, and gradually curving upwards and in- 

 wards, terminate in a rounded end, about half the breadth of the 

 base ; the tragus of the other ear being of the usual form. 



The membranes of the wings barely extend to the base of the toes. 

 The thumb is rather long, and has its terminal phalange twice the 

 length of the basal one. 



The fur of the forehead extends nearly to the end of the nose. 

 The sides of the face, and the muzzle, are moderately hairy, with a 

 tuft of stiffish hairs in front of the eye, and a black moustache frin- 

 ging the upper lip. The chin is nearly naked. A patch of fine, 

 short, adpressed hairs occupies the inside of the ear near its tip, and 

 the exposed surface of the tragus is similarly furnished. 



Seen from beneath, the whole of the antibrachial membrane is 

 covered with close downy hair of a yellowish colour, and fur of the 

 same kind extends from the side of the body along the membrane 

 beneath the arm and fore-arm, to the bases of the fingers, which, in 

 some examples, are completely obscured by it. In breadth this 

 band of fur varies from half to three-quarters of an inch, widest 

 towards the fingers. Only a portion of the base of the interfemoral 

 membrane, as seen from below, is hairy. 



Viewed from above, the whole of the interfemoral membrane is 

 hairy, as are the feet and legs, and a portion of the membrane of 

 the wings, where they are attached to the sides of the body. The 

 hair on the latter part, however, is of no great breadth, and its outer 

 margin is usually straight and well defined. Over the tibia the inter- 

 femoral fur passes but to a trifling extent, and in many specimens 

 that limb constitutes its exact boundary. In the species last de- 

 scribed, the fur usually passes over it, and occupies a considerable 

 space on the base of the wing. 



The variations in colour in this species appear to be much less 

 considerable than in the last. The fur of the muzzle, chin, and 

 around the eyes, is black ; that of the throat pale huffy-yellow, 

 the line of separation of the latter colour and the black of the chin 

 being pretty distinct. On the forehead the fur is of the same yel- 

 lowish hue as that of the throat, and on the top of the head it is 

 similarly coloured at its base, but becomes of an umber-brown colour 

 about its middle, and is there tipped with white. This arrangement 

 of colours represents pretty nearly the colour of all the upper parts 

 of the body, excepting that the fur has in addition a dark-coloured 



