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last in all but colour, but has the crest. membranes still less developed. 

 Colour dusky-brown, paler beneath. Inhabits Southern India. 



Taphozous. Three new species of this genus have been described by 

 me in,/. A. S., X, 971 et. seq. ; and in XI, 784, 1 verified and gave a more 

 detailed notice of the T. longimanus, Hardw., Lin. Tr. XIV, 525, and 

 distinguished the species which I had previously referred with doubt 

 to T. longimanus, by the appellation T. Cantori. This last mentioned 

 Bat I have not again obtained in the neighbourhood of Calcutta, but 

 have received a specimen from Mr. Jerdon, procured in the vicinity of 

 Nellore (on the Coromandel coast), where it would appear to be not 

 uncommon. This species is easily recognized by its flatly out-lying 

 ears, recurved tail, little developed gular sac, and by the whiteness of 

 the base of its fur, which shews conspicuously. 



Another species from Southern India is my T. brevicaudus, which 

 is at once distinguished from all the other known species by the short- 

 ness of its tail and interfemoral membrane. The specimen was from 

 Travancore. 



Since my description of T. longimanus was published, I have had 

 several fresh specimens, and very recently obtained thirteen alive 

 (of which two only were males) from the interval between a pillar 

 and the wall against which it was placed. Five others escaped. These 

 Bats clung with perfect facility to the smooth mahogany back of a 

 cage into which they were put, hitching their claws in the minute 

 pores of the wood, and creeping upon it in a manner that was surpris- 

 ing. The females were each about to give birth to a single offspring 

 (early in August). Their size was remarkably uniform, both sexes mea- 

 suring four inches and a quarter from snout to tail-tip, by sixteen 

 and a quarter in alar expanse ; the tail protruding half an inch : 

 nostril not closed, but having a valvular kidney-shaped orifice, and 

 tremulous, as observable in various other Bats, (for instance, the Cynop- 

 tervs marginatus.) The variation in colour was not great, nor had it 

 any relation to sex ; but one or two were more hoary-tipped, imparting 

 an ashy appearance, and one only was marked with yellowish or ful- 

 vescent. 



I have also procured in this vicinity specimens of my T.fulvidus, and 

 supply the following description of a recent male that was shot early one 



