390 EMDAlLOSUKIDJi. 



Mr. E. C. Buxton (in a note accompanying a specimen of this 

 species) remarks : — " This Bat was killed at Telok Betony, in Su- 

 matra, in the summer of 1876. There was an old hoUow cocoa-nut 

 stump in the garden, and about twenty of these Bats lived in it. 

 At night, or rather early in the morning, they used to hang at the 

 top of the verandah in company with several other kinds ; and I 

 found that they were all fruit-eaters, as there was a great deal of 

 fruit refuse under them." 



Although this does not prove that T. affinis occasionally feeds on 

 fruits, as it is possible that the " other kinds " referred to may have 

 been wholly the producers of the refuse found on the floor of the 

 verandah, yet it appears probable that not only this species but also 

 the other species of the genus may sometimes or habitually vary 

 their insect food with fruit ; for many of the American Bats, and 

 especially the species of the closely allied genus Noctilio, with weU- 

 developed insectivorous dentition, are known to feed occasionally, if 

 not for the greater part, on fruit. 



a-c. c? & $ ad., al. (type). Labuan. Purchased. 



d. ad. sk. " Sumatra. E. C. Buxton, Esq. [P.]. 



e. ad. sk. East India House [C.]. 



10. Taphozons peli. 



Taphozous peli, Temminck, JEsquiss. zoolog. stir le cote de GuinS, p. 82 

 (1853) ; I)obso7i, P. Z. S. 1875, p. 655. 



Ears proportionally smaller and more triangular than in any of 

 the other species, upper half of the inner margin of the ear-conch 

 papillate ; tragus rather short, evenly rounded above as in T. sacco- 

 Icemiis. Lower lip with a deep narrow groove (Plate XX. fig. 6, 

 head). Gular sac very large in males, rudimentary (the margins 

 only defined) in females. No radio-metacarpal pouch. 



Eur of the body short, not extending to the membranes ; distri- 

 bution sim.ilar to that of T. nudiventris. 



Above, dark reddish brown ; beneath, a slightly paler shade of the 

 same colour. 



Length, head and body 4"-2, tail l"-2, ear 1", tragus 0"-3, 

 forearm 3"-5, thumb 0"-6 ; third finger — metacarp. 3"-3, 1st ph. 

 l"-45, 2nd ph. l"-45; fifth finger — metacarp. 2"*1, 1st ph. 0"-8, 

 2nd ph. 0"-45 ; tibia l"-3, foot 0"-8. 



Ilab. Africa (Gold Coast, Cameroon Mountains, East Africa). 



Type in the collection of the Leyden Museum. 



This is by far the largest species of the genus. 



"i *• cT & 5 ad., al. Cameroon Mountains, Purchased. 



