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well clothed with hair, by the larger ears, and especially by the 

 tail, which is thickened and somewhat laterally compressed towards 

 the tip, though in every other species of the genus it tapers slightly 

 towards its extremity, and also by the colour of the fur. 



Length, head and body 3"-l, taU 1", ear 0"-85, tragus 0"-23, fore- 

 arm 2"-5, thumb 0"-3o ; third finger— metacarp. 2"-2, 1st. ph. 0"-8, 

 2ud ph. 0"-9 ; fifth finger 2"-l, tibia 0"-9, foot 0"-o. 



Hah. India (Lower Bengal, Madras, Malabar coast) ; Burma ; 

 Pinang; Pulo Tickus ; Cochin China; Java; Borneo; Philippine 

 Islands. 



Type in the collection of the Leyden Museum. 



o- ad. sk. Caves of Kennara, Ma- East India Comp. [P.]. 



labar coast of India. 



i,c. d'imm.etad.,al. Tenasserim Province. Dr. Oldham [P.]. 



(The older male .specimen with well-developed black beard.) 



d- ad. sk. Pinang. East India Comp. [P.]. 



e. ad. sk. Pulo Tickus. ' Dr. Cantor [C.]. 



/. cJ ad., al. Cochin China. G. E. Dobson, M.B. [E.]. 



g, h. (f ad., al. Borneo. L. L. Dillwyn, Esq. [P.J. 



»■-«. d & ? ad., al. Borneo ? Capt. Sir E. Belcher {_Q.]. 



o-q. c? i& 5 ad., al. Philippine Islands. Mr. Cmning [C.]. 



r-u. c? & ? ad., al. Philippine Islands. Zool. Soc. Coll. 



(Types of Taphozuus philippinensis, Waterhouse.) 



V. ad. sk. Purchased. 



2. Taphozous theohaldi. 



Taphozous theohaldi, Dobson, Proc. Asiat. Soc. Beng. Aug. 1872, 

 p. 162 ; P. Z. S. 1875, p. 550 ; Mmiogr. Asiat. Chiropt. p. 108 

 (1876). 



Gular sac absent in both sexes. Inner margin of the ear papil- 

 late ; ears larger than in any of the species of Taphozous. Radio- 

 metacarpal pouch well developed, larger than in T. melanopogon. 



Wings from the tibiae above the ankles. 



The fur of the head extends upon the face as far as a line drawn 

 between the inner corners of the eyes, the remainder of the muzzle 

 is nearly naked ; ear-couch naked, except where a few hairs clothe 

 the basal portion of its inner surface ; posteriorly the ears are naked 

 except at the base and along their outer margins. 



On the upper surface the wing- and interfemoral membranes are 

 quite naked, the fur being strictly limited to the body ; laterally 

 the limit of the fur upon the back is defined by a well-marked Hne, 

 convex inwards in the lumbar region ; in T. melanojoogon and in T. 

 nudiventris the line of fur is convex outwards in the same situation ; 

 BO that in this species the space occupied by fur in the lumbar region 

 is narrower than in any of the other species, and appears to depend 

 on the position of attachment of the wing-membrane. The tail has 

 but three or four long, very fine hairs. 



Inferiorly, the chin is naked as far as the anterior prolongation 

 of the external margin of the ears ; the fur of the body extends upon 

 the wing-membrane a.s far as a line joining the middle of the humerus 



