MINIOPTERUS DASYTHRIX— Tem. 
Mammalia. — Plate LII. 
M. superne rubro brunneusflavo brunneo-tinctus, capute dorsique parte posterioris griseo brunneo-umbratis, 
infra pallide brnnneo-ruber flavo-brunneo tinctus; lateribus, abdominisque parte postenore sord.do- 
albis ; auribus acuminatis, margine externa versus apicem emarginata. 
Longitudo e nasi apice ad basin caudae 2 unc. 9 hn . ; caudse 1 unc. 3 lin. 
Yespertilio Natalensis, Smith.— South African Quarterly Journal, New Series, vol. i. 1832. 
Colour.— The fur of the upper part of the head, neck, and body, 
intermediate between chestnut-brown and yellowish brown, that of the 
head and posterior part of the back tinted with broccoli-brown. On the 
under parts the general colour is a dull, pale brownish red, tinged with wood- 
brown ; the flanks and hinder portion of the abdomen, dingy white. The 
wing and interfemoral membranes intermediate between wood-brown and 
yellowish brown, in places strongly tinted with pale reddish orange. Ears, 
tragus, and nose, nearly the same colour as the wing membranes. 
Form, &c. — Head, posteriorly rather broad, anteriorly narrow ; nose 
rounded, the nostrils at its apex close together, and each with a raised 
margin ; ears broad at the base, narrow towards the apex, which is 
pointed, the external margin of each slightly emarginate a little below 
the point; tragus narrow, subfalciform, and pointed. Eyes small, and 
situated close to the ears. Body moderately full; wings rather wide; 
interfemoral membrane large, somewhat triangular, and envelopes the whole 
of the tail. Toes of hinder feet short and nearly of equal length, claws slender 
and much curved. Alar membrane much veined, one large vein extend- 
h obliquely from the mesial extremity of the antibrachium to nearly the 
a pex of the fourth finger ; anterior to this, towards the body, the veins extend 
hi straight lines from the antibrachium ; toward the finger their direc 
tion is obliquely outwards and backwards. Behind the first-mentioned vein 
one portion of the more delicate ones, which are numerous, extend across 
