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VESrEETIL10KIDJ3. 



Above ctestiiut-brown throughout ; beneath similar, the extreme 

 points of the hairs ashy. 



On both surfaces the fur of the body is short : the face in front 

 of the eyes is nearly naked, and the -wing- and interfemoral mem- 

 branes are clothed with a few thinly spread hairs along the sides of 

 the body only. 



Upper incisors close to base of canines, inclined forwards and 

 inwards ; lower incisors not crowded, indistinctly lobed ; lower 

 canines without internal basal cusp ; first lower premolar small 

 and blunt, criished in between the canine and second premolar and 

 pushed slightly inwards ; posterior upper molar equal to half ante- 

 penultimate molar. 



Length (of an adult male specimen, the type), head and body 

 1""75, tail l"-2, head 0"-6, ear 0"-5, tragus 0"'2, forearm l"-2 ; 

 third finger — metacarp. r'-2, 1st ph. 0"-53, 2nd ph. 0"-65 ; fifth 

 linger — metacarp. l"-2, 1st ph. 0"-3, 2nd p5i. 0"-2 ; tibia 0"-45, 

 footU"-2.5*. 



Hab. Australia (Port Essington, Liverpool Eange). 



a. c? ad., al. (type). Port Essington. Earl of Derby [P.]. 



h-d. ad. sks. Port Essicg-ton. 



e. ad. sk. Liverpool Range. 



7. ScotopMlus pallidus. 



Scotophilus pallidus, Dohson, Monoyr. Asiat. Cliiropt. p. 186 (1870). 



Head and muzzle as in Sc. temminclii. Ears shorter than the 

 head, the internal basal lobe convex, evenly rounded ; the ascending 

 inner margin sbgbtly convex : tip rather broadly rounded off ; the 

 outer margin straight for half its length, concave opposite the base 

 of the tragus and terminating in a convex lobe ; tragus moderately 

 long, and rounded at the tip, not attenuated above, anterior surface 

 smooth, inner margin straight or faintly concave, outer slightly 

 convex, a prominent triangular lobule near its base (Plate XV. fig. 3). 



Wings from the base of the toes ; calcaneiim weak : postcalcaneal 

 lobule long and very narrow ; last rudimentary caudal vertebra free. 



Eur, above, light chestnut-brown ; beneath, brownish buff ; the 

 base of the bairs on both surfaces pale buff. In some specimens, 

 the fur is pale buff throughout, and the integument of the body and 

 the volar membranes are of the same light colour. 



Dentition as in Sc. tcmmincJiii . 



Length (of an adult cS preserved in alcohol), bead and body 2", 

 tail l"-4, head 0"-7, ear 0"-55, tragus 0"-23, forearm l"-4, thumb 

 0"-25 ; third finger — metacarp. l"-3, 1st ph. 0"-45, 2nd ph. 0"'7 ; 

 fifth finger — metacarp. 1"'3, 1st ph. 0""35, 2nd ph. 0"'2 ; tibia 

 0"-48, foot 0"-28. 



Uab. Peninsula of India (Mian Mir, near Lahore ; Scinde). 



Type in the collection of the Indaui Museum, Calcutta. 



(I. imm, cJ , al. ? India. Purchased. 



mi: a 



In my Monograph of the gemis Scotophilus in P. Z. S. 1875, p. 372, the 

 -urements of a diflerent ppecie? were accidentallj given instead of the above. 



