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Length to end of tail four inches, the membrane reaching five-eighths 

 of an inch beyond ; tail three-quarters of an inch, the terminal five- 

 sixteenths protrusile and recurved: expanse fifteen inches and a half; 

 fore-arm two and five-eighths ; first phalanx of longest finger two and 

 a half; tibia an inch ; foot large, measuring with claws eleven-sixteenths 

 of an inch : the sac little developed. Ears five-eighths of an inch apart 

 at base anteriorly. Fur of the upper-parts black, or dark blackish-brown, 

 a little hoary at the tips, and light brown at the extreme base; under- 

 pays inclining to ashy- black, and more grizzled; membranes dusky, with 

 the exception of the whitish margin described. On the particular speci- 

 men before me, are some pure white dashes on one side of the back, 

 being traces of partial albinism. The nostrils appear to be quite closed 

 by a valve, which would open at the will of the animal. Taken at 

 Mirzapore, and presented to the Society by Major. R. Wroughton, to 

 whom it is also indebted for examples of the Rhinopoma, and for nu- 

 merous other interesting specimens. 



T. pulcher, Elliot. A species from Southern India, recently dis- 

 covered by Mr. Elliot, who informs me that it is " black-brown above 

 with white pencillings, and pure white below." That naturalist 

 will give a more detailed description of it in the Madras Journal. 



Rhinopoma. From descriptions with which I have been favored, 

 I had long felt satisfied that a Bat of this genus inhabited the re- 

 nowned taj at Agra, where great numbers of them would seem to 

 exist; and there can be little doubt that the species is that marked 

 Rh. Hardwickii, Gray, from India, in Mr. Waterhouse's catalogue of the 

 stuffed specimens of Mammalia in the Zoological Society's Museum, 

 and also that likewise referred to Hardwickii in Mr. Elliot's catalogue 

 of the Mammalia of the Southern Mahratta country, as being found in 

 old ruins to the eastward of that province. But a specimen in the 

 Society's collection received from England, and said to be African, 

 differs in no respect that I can perceive, and comparing both with the 

 figure of Rh. microphylla in the national French work on Egypt, the 

 only difference arises from what I presume is an inaccuracy in that 

 figure; viz. that the caudal vertebrae are not represented to be suffi- 

 ciently elongated. Even on comparison of the skulls together, and 

 with that figured by M. Geoffroy, I have been unable to detect any 



