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6. Taphozous mauritianus. 



Taphozoua mauritianus, Geoffroy, Desci-ipt. de rJSt/!/pte,ii. j), 127 ; 



Temm. Monoyr. Maminal. ii. p. 291 ; Wayner, Suppl. Schreh. 



Siiugeth. v. p. 685 ; Dobson, P. Z. S. 1875, p. 653. 

 Taphozous leucopterus, Temm. I. c. p. 284 (vide Peters, MB. AJcad, 



Berl. 1869, p. 402) ; Peters, Reise naeh Mossmnbique, Sauyeth. p. 



55, pi. xiii. fig. 20 (1852). 



Inner margin of the ear indistinctly papillate ; tragus naked, with 

 a distinct angular projection near the base of its outer margin. 

 Gular sac distinct in males, rudimentary in females, the throatbeing 

 naked only in the position of the sac. Radio-metacarpal pouch 

 smaller than in T. hngimanus. 



Wings from the ankles. Feet small. 



On the upj)er surface the face in front of the eyes is covered 

 ■with short hairs, and the fur of the back extends upon the inter- 

 femoral membrane slightly beyond the point of perforation by the 

 tail ; beneath, the distribution of fur upon the membrane is similar, 

 but the interfemoral is very thinly covered. 



Fur, above, from the base for three fourths its length light buff- 

 brown, then dark brown with grey extremities ; beneath, similar on 

 shoulders and sides of the thorax and neck behind the ears as far 

 back as the origin of the antehumeral membrane, the neck behind 

 the gular pouch and the remainder of the chest and abdomen pure 

 white. 



On the upper surface the wing-membrane as far outwards as a 

 line drawn from the ankle to the elbow and also the antehumeral 

 and interfemoral membranes are brown ; the remaining part of the 

 wing-membrane white, except a small ill-deiined patch of brown 

 inside the first phalanx of the longest finger ; beneath, all the mem- 

 branes are white. 



Length (of an adult c?), head and body 3""1, tail 1", ear (ante- 

 riorly) 0"-8, tragus 0"'25, forearm 2"-4, thumb 0"-3 ; third finger — 

 metacarp. 2"-25, 1st ph. 0"-9, 2nd ph. 1" ; fifth finger — metacarp. 

 l"-35, 1st ph. 0"-5, 2nd ph. 0"-4; tibia 0"-85, foot 0"-45. 



Hah. Ethiopian Region ; Africa (eastern and western coasts), 

 Madagascar, Bourbon and Mauritius islands. 



The species is easily distinguished by the peculiar speckled ap- 

 pearance of the fur, which is quite differejit from that of any other 

 known species of the genus, also by the white colour of the greater 

 portion of the membranes. 



West Africa. Mr. Fraser [C.]. 



West Africa. Purchased. 



West Africa. Purchased. 



Lagos. Purchased. 



Cape of Good Hope. Purchased. 

 Africa. 

 Africa. 

 Bourbon, 



ad., al. Purchased. 



