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Ears slightly longer than the head, oval, rounded off above ; inner 

 and outer margins of the ear-conch convex, at the base of the outer 

 margin a small erect lobe ; tragus small, curved inwards and for- 

 wards, narrowed above, extremity rounded, inner margin concave. 

 The surface of the ear-conch is thickly studded with glandular ele- 

 vations from which sm.all hairs arise, and the tragus is covered with 

 long hairs. On the face the posterior cutaneous leaflets margining 

 the longitudinal groove are covered with hair, which also conceals 

 the deep frontal cavity. The sides of the muzzle in front are covered 

 with erect hairs. The fur of the back extends thickly upon the 

 himierus and fleshy part of the forearm, and upon the wing-mem- 

 brane as far as a line drawn from the elbow to the knee ; the an- 

 terior one third of the interfemoral membrane is thinly covered. 



Fur and integuments dark brown or black, the extremities of the 

 hairs paler. 



Upper incisors short, broad, and trifid ; lower incisors trifid, 

 slightly crowded ; the single upper premolar large and close to the 

 canine ; the second lower premolar minute, in the tooth-row, vary- 

 ing slightly in size. 



Length (of an adult ? ), head and body l"-8, tail l"-85, head 0"-7, 

 ear 0"-85, tragus 0"-2oxO"-14, forearm l"-6, thumb 0"-4, third 

 finger 2"-9, fifth finger 2"-2, tibia 0"-8, foot 0"-35. 



Hab. That part of the Ethiopian Region which is included within 

 the continent of Africa. 



a. c? & $ S'd., al. Northern Africa. Purchased. 



b. 5 ad.,'al. Khartoum. F. Petherick, Esq. [C.]. 



c. ad. sk. Fernando Po Island. Capt. E. Downes, K.N. [P.]. 



(Type of Nycteris poensis, Gray.) 



d. 5 ad., al. Fernando Po Island. Zool. Soc, Coll. 



e. 9. ad., al. Old Calabar. Dr. J. A. Smith [P.]. 

 /. c? ad., al. Old Calabar. Dr. J. A. Smith [P.]. 

 g. S ad., al. Old Calabar. Purchased. 



h. S ad., al. Lagos. Purchased. 



i. (S imm., al. Angola. Dr. J. E. Gray [P.]. 



j. $ ad., al. Zanzibar. Dr. Kirk [P.]. 



k. $ ad., al. Cape of Good Hope. Sir A. Smith [P.]. 



/. $ ad., al. No history. 



Var. a. 



Nycteris villosa, Peters, Reise nach Mossambique, Saugeth. p. 48, 

 pi. xi. (1852) ; MB. Akad. Berl. 1870, p. 902, pi. fig. 3 (teeth). 



Distinguished from N. hispida, accordrag to Dr. Peters, by the 

 more extended distribution of the fur upon the volar membranes, 

 and by the greater size of the second lower premolar. 



ffab. South-east Africa (Inhambane). 



Type in the collection of the Berlin Museum. 



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