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■well-defiued glandular eminences. Lower lip with a rounded hori- 

 zontal lobule on each side near the angle of the mouth (Plate XIV. 

 fig. 1«). 



Wings from the base of the toes ; postcalcaneal lobe well deve- 

 loped, circular, prominent, supported internally, on the side next 

 the tail, by a cartilaginous prop, the curved extremity of which 

 forms its posterior margin ; tail wholly contained within the inter- 

 femoral membrane. 



Fur dark brown, almost black, on the head and anterior half of 

 the back, passing into dark chestnut-brown posteriorly ; beneath 

 similar, but slightly paler ; the colour of the hairs on both surfaces 

 the same from the base to the tip. On the body the fur is rather 

 long and dense. The face is covered with a few hairs only in front 

 of the eyes ; the wing-membrane on the upper surface is clothed as 

 far as a line drawn from the middle of the humerus almost as far 

 outwards as the knee-joint, beneath as far as a line drawn from 

 the elbow to the knee, and a few hairs appear along the oblique 

 lines behind the forearm ; the base of the interfemoral between the 

 thighs is alone covered. 



Inner upper incisors long, with a short cusp near their extre- 

 mities ; outer incisors very short and imicuspidate, scarcely exceed- 

 ing the cingulum of the inner incisors in length ; lower incisors 

 trifid, in the direction of the jaw ; first upper premolar minute, con- 

 cealed in the inner angle between the canine and the closely approxi- 

 mated second premolar, and not visible from without. 



Length (of an adult § ), head and body l"-8, tail l"-7, head 0"-58, 

 ear 0"-45, tragus 0"-16, forearm l"-55, thumb 0"-25, third finger 

 2"-7, fifth finger l"-9, tibia 0"-7, foot 0"-3. 



Hah. S.E. Australia ; New Zealand. 



In the long description of this species by Mr. E. F. Tomes, occu- 

 pying three pages of the ' Proceedings of the Zoological Society,' 

 taken from specimens " in spirit and in skin " (as the describer re- 

 marks), no notice is taken of the most important characters, such 

 as the lobes of the upper lip and the very large postcalcaneal lobe, 

 and in the coloured plate accompanying the description these parts 

 are not shovra. The form of the tragus is also wrongly described, 

 and the dental formula is incorrectly stated. No better proof could 

 be afforded that mere length of description is not sufficient to cha- 

 racterize a species. 



«. 5 ad., al. New Zealand. 



6,c. ad. sk. New Zealand. 



d. ad. sk., in al. New Zealand. Wellington Museum [E.]. 



e. ad. sk. Tasmania. 



f. ad. sk., in al. South Australia. 



(Type of Scotophilus morio, Gray.) 



9- ad. sk. Sydney. , :, i, i, j 



h 2 imm., al. Peak Downs, Queensland. Purchased. 



t. &A. sk. (Figured and described in ' Voy. Erebus and Terror.') 



