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and on the anterior base of the conch within ; on the back the fur 
extends to the margin of the wing membranes, and continues on 
the body beneath them ; there are scattered hairs on the post 
radial and rest of the wing membranes, and on the raised cervical 
folds. Beneath there is scanty hair on the antebrachial membrane, 
and on the postradial in a band which becomes much denser at 
the elbow. The fur of the shoulder extends upon three-fourths of 
the humerus, that of the pubis on the femur to the like degree, 
interfemoral membrane naked except near junction with tail. 
Colour. — Above, reddish brown, the hairs uniform, more or less 
glistening ; beneath, brown, silvered with shining hairs. 
Teeth as in C. peronii, molars narrower than premolars. 
Palatal bars, 12, anterior four simple, more or less arched, last with 
foliated margin, the rest in pairs, rib-like. 
Head and body 
mm. 125.0 
Tail 
26.0 
Forearm 
.. 115.5 
First digit 
. . 33.0 
Second digit 
64.5 
Third digit 
. . 201.0 
Fourth digit 
. . 151.0 
Fifth digit 
.. 131.0 
Ear, height 
23 5 
Ear, breadth 
12 0 
Tibia 
52.5 
Foot 
25.5 
Calcaneum 
12.0 
Hair of back . . 
12.0 
In the adult female the eye is nearer to 
the end of the nose 
than to the root of the ear, the cushion on the upper lip is irregular 
in shape and deeply emarginate on its lower margin. There is no 
gular sac, but a small cervical band, which may be altogether absent, 
and the centre of the lower breast and abdomen is reddish. Locality, 
Panniet Island, Louisiades. 
One male, three females in alcohol. Skull of one of the females. 
Taphozous fumosus n.s. 
This is a Taphozous, with a wing-pouch, a throat-sac, which, 
in the female, is rudimentary, and ears which have papillae on their 
inner edges. So far it resembles the two African species, mauritianus 
and nudiventris ; but, unlike the latter, its lower back is not 
bare of fur and its wing extends to the ankle, while from the former it 
differs in the colouring of its membranes and lower surface ; in 
the disposition of the fur beneath the wing, in a proportionately 
longer fore-arm and shorter tail, etc. Among Australian species 
it has virtually but one ally from which it need be distinguished, 
australis, since flaviventris is from this last differentiated, chiefly 
by size and colour, and hargravei is stated by its describer to be related 
