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morning, in bright day-light, creeping upon the stem of a palm. Length, 

 to end of tail, four inches, the membrane extending three-quarters 

 of an inch further ; tail seven-eighths of an inch, and (as usual) wholly 

 retractile within the membrane ; alar expanse fifteen inches ; length 

 of fore-arm two and three-eighths ; tarse an inch ; foot and claws 

 half an inch. General colour slightly grizzled chesnut-brown, purer 

 on head and neck, the abdominal region covered with shorter hair, 

 weakly infuscated, and less tinged with chesnut ; axillary part of the 

 membrane, from between the elbow to the flank inclusive, covered 

 with longer and whitish hairs. Face, ears, and membrane, washed 

 with dusky ; the portion of membrane between the hind-leg and proxi- 

 mate finger narrowly edged with whitish. One specimen purchased of 

 a bazar shikarree is so much darker, that before I had obtained a good 

 series of T. longimanus I had some doubt whether it ought not to 

 be referred to that species ; and such an example may have been the 

 original longimanus of Hardwicke, described as of a snuff-brown 

 colour : but this name had better now remain as I have appropriated 

 it. In general, the present species is of a tolerably bright chesnut hue. 

 Like the preceding one (to which it is closely allied), the male has a 

 very large throat-sac, the ears bend upwards, and the tail is straight 

 and rigid, not recurved as in T. Cantori, and also as in the following 

 species. The specimens which I formerly described had been long 

 soaked in spirit, which seems to have discharged the colour from the 

 face and membranes, and one of them which I have had taken out and 

 stuffed, has the under-parts more uniformly coloured, the longer hair 

 upon the membrane towards the axilla, and that of the abdomen, 

 scarcely differing in hue from that of the breast ; whereas in the re- 

 cently procured examples here described, the difference of colour in 

 these parts is very conspicuous. 



T. crassus, Nobis. This is a well marked species, having the 

 recurved tail of T. Cantori, and ears bending upwards as in longima- 

 nus and fu/vidus. It is particularly distinguished by its blackish 

 colour, and the broad dull white margin of the membrane between 

 the tibia and proximate finger, this margin increasing much in depth 

 as it recedes from the finger-tip, and merging gradually into the black 

 of the rest of the membrane, becoming at first mottled with the latter. 



