WET WITSCH’S BAT. 
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incisor teetli in the upper jaw, instead of four as in Vesperugo. These are stout-bodied Bats, with the 
muzzle nearly naked, the limbs strong, and the wing-membranes very thick and leathery, and scarcely 
encroached upon by hair. They are confined to the Eastern Hemisphere, 
and generally to its warmer parts, the species being found in Africa, Southern 
Asia and its islands, and in Australia. The best-known species is Teni- 
minck’s Bat ( Scotophilus Temminckii), which enjoys a wide range from 
India and Ceylon eastward through Burmah and Southern China to the 
Eastern Archipelago, extending to the Moluccas and Philippine Islands. It 
is rather more than three inches in length, and varies considerably in colour, 
but is generally dark olive-brown above, and reddish or yellowish -white 
beneath. The fur, as throughout the genus, is short and close. The ear is peculiar in its form, and 
its outer margin sweeps round on the cheek and terminates in a convex lobe 3 the tragus is narrow 
wriAViTSCli’s "BAT. (Half natural size. From tlie Proemlm^ n f ^ re Socirlj,} 
HEAD OF TEMMIXCE.’s BAT- 
(After Dobson.) 
and pointed, and considerably curved forwards and inwards. Teniminck’s Bat is very abundant in the* 
countries which it inhabits, and is one of the most prominent species of the group, seeing that it 
lives in large bands, often of several hundred individuals, in the roofs of houses and in hollow 
trees, and that it flies very early in the evening, in fact before the commencement of twilight. 
Temminck says that it feeds principally on White Ants (Termites). 
The Harlequin Bat (Scotophilus ornalus), another Indian species, is remarkable for its coloration,, 
which is a pale tawny-brown, curiously variegated with white spots. It has been obtained in India,. 
Burmah, and Yunnan. 
WELWITSCH'S BAT.* 
This curious Bat, originally described by Dr. Gray from a specimen sent from Angola by the 
late Dr. Welwitsch, is especially remarkable for the brightness and variegation of its colours. The 
general tint of the fur is brown, the hairs being black at the base, with brown tips, which are longer 
and paler on the hairs of the lower surface, rendering the fur of that part paler than that of the back* 
* Scotophilus Welwitsch ii. 
