ISO Catalogue of Mammalia inhabiting [No. 171. 



Two individuals had the back of a velvety snuff colour, becoming a 

 shade lighter on the under-parts. Entire length of the larger four 

 and four-eighth inches, of which the tail one and two-fourth inches. 

 Extent of the flying membrane ten and four-eighth inches. In the size 

 of the ears some difference exists in the two. 



Gen. — Taphozous, Geoff roy. 

 Taphozous melanopogon, Temminck. 

 Syn. — Taphozous melanopogon, apud Schinz. 

 Hab. — Pulo-Tikus, Pulo-Lancdvy, Malayan Peninsula. 

 « Java, Caves of Kannera. 



Temminck's description, as quoted by Schinz, is taken from the adult 

 male, the Malayan individuals of which differ in having the black beard 

 surrounded by a broad light-brown band, covering, like a pelerine, the 

 chest and shoulders. The rest of the lower parts are either white or 

 brownish-white. The flying membrane in the adult male is whitish ; 

 in the females and young males it is blackish or brownish between the 

 legs, along the sides of the body and the arms. The colour of the 

 female and young male is on the back of a more or less brownish 

 mouse-grey, becoming much lighter or whitish beneath, but both are 

 destitute of the black beard, which, out of a number of between forty 

 and fifty from different Malayan localities, occurred but in seven males, 

 although some of the beardless males in size and extent of flying mem- 

 brane equalled, or even slightly exceeded, the bearded. The entire 

 length of the largest male was four inches, of which the tail measured 

 one inch. 



Extent of flying membrane fifteen and four- eighth inches. 



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Dentition : Incis. .- Lanm. - — - Molar, - — • 



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Taphozous saccolaimus, Temminck. 



Syn. — Taphozous pulcher, Elliot MSS. apud Blyth. 

 Hab. — Pinang. 



Java, Sumatra, Borneo, Celebes, Southern India. 



In two males captured at Pinang in houses in the valley, the colours 



somewhat differ from Temminck's description, quoted by Schinz. In 



the larger, the head and back are of a sooty black, with a few white 



dashes, the lower parts of a pure white. The flying membrane is black 



