1872.] F. Stoliczka — Mammals and Birds inhabiting KacKh. 221 



teeth, and apparently not quite complete ossification of the extremities of 

 the metacarpal and phalangeal bones, indicates age as a very probable cause 

 of the differences of colour that have been observed. The young of the first 

 and second year most probably present this golden fulvous hue which gra- 

 dually changes to white, as the animal attains the adult condition. 



The following table gives the measurement of the two specimens first 

 referred to ; and of another, an adult female, from the same locality, with 

 white fur, tipped with purplish black. 



S 2 2 



Length, head and body, 1.9 175 1'9 



„ tail, 115 1-15 11 



„ head, 075 0-7 075 



„ ear, anteriorly, 085 0'8 0'85 



Breadth, ditto, 065 0'65 065 



Length, forearm, 1'55 1"55 1"55 



„ thumb, 03 03 0'3 



„ second finger, 2'45 2*4 25 



„ fourth ditto, 2'0 19 2"1 



„ tibia, 0-7 07 072 



foot and claws, 0-32 0"32 0-32 



Generally distributed, but not common. 



Fam. Ehestopomatid^;.* 



Khinopoma Hardwickii, Gray. 



This species is extremely common, usually taking up its abode in 



wells. All possess large accumulations of fat posterior to the anus, in much 



greater quantity than usually observed, the mass of fat in many individuals 



probably much exceeding in weight the remainder of the body. 



Fam. Noctilionzd^i. 

 Taphozotts Kachhensis, Dobson, n. sp. 

 In form, colour of the fur, and size corresponds very closely with T. 

 saccolaimus, Geoff., but easily distinguished by the complete absence of the 

 gular pouch in both male and female. A small fold of wing-membrane forms 

 a shallow pouch in the angle between the radius and fifth metacarpal bone, 

 much less developed than in T. longimanus, Hardw. Ears as in T. saccolai- 

 mus, but slightly larger, and the tragus is naked ; inner margin bordered 

 with a row of small papules. 



* I have formed this family, provisionally, for the reception of the genus Rhino, 

 poma of which the type, Eh. Hardwickii, is the sole representative. This genus has 

 been classed by Drs. Gray and Peters with the Megadermatida, but, on carefully com- 

 paring the skeleton of Megaderma, hjra with that of Rhvuopoma Hardwickii, I find not 

 the least osteological connection. The genus is, evidently, far more closely related 

 to some of the genera of Noctilionidce than to Megaderma, 



