18 HOLLISTER. 



Genus SCOTOPHILUS Leach. 



1821. Scotophilus Leach, Trans. Linn. Soc. London, 13, 69. Type. — 

 Scotophilus kuhlii Leach. 



Medium-sized bats (single Philippine species with head and 

 body about 75 millimeters; tail about 50) varying in color from 

 olive-brown. to rich chestnut. Ears rather small with long, 

 sharply-pointed tragus. Wing membrane attached to side of 

 foot near base, of toes. Wing and interfemoral membrane en- 

 tirely naked above, 



Scotophilus temminckii (Horsfield). 



1824. Vespertilio temminckii Horsfield, Zool. Res. in Java (pages not 



numbered). 

 1838. Scotophihis temminckii GRAY, Mag. Zool. and Bot., 2, 497. 



Type locality. — Java. Luzon (Peters) ; Negros (Elera) ; Pa- 

 nay (Elliot). 



Genus MINIOPTERUS Bonaparte. 



1837. Miniopterus Bonaparte, Iconagr. della Fauna Italica, 1, fasc. 

 XX. Type. — Vespertilio ursinii BONAPARTE=y. schreibersii Ki;HL. 



Tail as long as head and body, wholly contained within the in- 

 terfemoral membrane; ears small; tragus high, slender, slightly 

 curved forward at tip; nostrils simple. Color variable. Head 

 and body 45 to 60 millimeters. 



Miniopterus australis Tomes. 



1858. Miniopterus australis Tomes, Proc. Zool. Soc. London (1858), 125. 



Type locality. — Australia. Luzon (Peters). 



IMInlopterus puslllus Dobson. 



1876. Miniopterus pusillus DoBSON, Monog. Asiatic Chiropt., 162. 



Type locality. — India or Philippine Islands. Luzon (Thomas) ; 

 Mindanao (Hoffman). 



IVIinlopterus schreibersii (Kuhl). 



1819. Vespertilio schreibersii Kuhl, Neue Ann. der Gesell. Wetterau., 



1, pt. 2, 185. 

 1840. Miniopterus schreibersii, Keyserling and Blasius, Wirbelth. 



Europ., 45. 

 1845. Vespertilio eschscholtzii Waterhouse, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 



Jan 14, (1845), 3, April. (Philippine Islands.) 



Type locality. — Hungary. Luzon (Peters) ; Samar (Sanchez). 



Miniopterus tibialis (Tomes). 



1858. Vesp[ertilio'i tibialis Tomes, Proc. Zool. Soc. London (1858), 



126. 

 1878. Miniopterus tibialis Dobson, Cat. Chiropt. Brit. Mus., 348, in 



synonymy. 



Type locality. — ^Amboyna. Luzon (Matschie). 



