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KMDA.LLONURIb.E. 



Specimens brought by the late Dr. Stoliczka from Kachh (N.W. 

 India) and now in the collection of the Indian Museum, Calcutta, 

 have large deposits of fat about tJie base of the taQ, as in Taphozous 

 nudiventris (which inhabits the same countries). They were ob- 

 tained during the winter, and it is probable that the fat in this 

 position is laid up on the approach of the hibernating season. 



Hah. Africa (Egj^st, Kordofan) ; Asia Minor (Palestine) ; Indian 

 Peninsula generally ; Burma. 



a-d. ad. sks. 



e. (S ad., al. 



/. ad. sk. 



g, h. ad. sks. 



i-l: c? & 2 ad., al. 



m. (S ad., al. 



n. 5 ad., al. 

 u. (j ad., al. 

 p. 5 ad., al. 

 q, r. S ad., al. 



Egypt. 

 Egypt. 

 Arashkool. 

 Kordofan. 

 Mt. Quarantaria, Pa- 

 lestine. 



India. General Hardwicke [P.]- 



(Type of Rhinopoma hardivirJm.) 



General Hardwicke [P.]. 



G. E. Dobson, M.B. [E.]. 



Purchased. 



Purchased. 



Rev. H. B. Tristram [C.]. 



India. 

 India. 

 India. 

 Allahabad, India. 



Niisserabad. 

 Nusserabad. 

 Madras. 

 Calcutta. 



s-u. ad. sks. 



V. ad. sk. 



w. ad. sk. 



x. ad. sk. 



jf, s. cT im- & d ad., al. 



a', ad. sk. 



b'-d'. ad. sks, 



e'-f/'. skulls. Kashmir. 



A', skidl. Madras. 



»'. skull. India. 



Secretarv of State for 

 India "[P.]. 



Purchased. 



Sir Walter EUiot [P.]. 



M. Parzudaki 

 Capt. Fitzroy 



m. 



Prof. Oldham [P.]. 

 Sir Walter Elliot [P. 

 Sir Walter Elliot [P. 



Subfam. II. MOLOSSINiE. 



Tail thick, produced far beyond the posterior margin of the inter- 

 femoral membrane *, which is movable upon it ; antebrachial mem- 

 brane very small ; logs short and strong, with weU-developed fibulfe ; 

 feet large, the first toe (and often the fifth also) much larger than 

 the others ; upper incisors strong. 



This Subfamily includes all the species of Emballonuridae with short 

 and strong legs and broad feet — whereof the first toe (and in most spe- 

 cies the fifth also) is much thicker than the others and furnished with 

 long curved hairs, — with well-developed callosities at the base of the 

 thumbs, and with a single pair of large upper incisors occupying 

 the centre of the space between the canines. 



The feet in all the species are free from the wing-membrane, 

 which folds up very perfectly under the forearm and legs ; and the 

 narrow and, in some cases, rudimentary antebrachial membrane 

 does not extend beyond the proximal half of the forearm; the inter- 



* Except in Mr/stacina. 



