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teeth, and apparently not quite complete ossification of the extremities of 
the metacarpal and phalangeal bones, indicates age as a very probable cause 
of the differences of colour that have been observed. The young of the first 
and second year most probably present this golden fulvous hue which gra- 
dually changes to white, as the animal attains the adult condition. 
The following table gives the measurement of the two specimens first 
referred to ; and of another, an adult female, from the same locality, with 
white fur, tipped with purplish black. 
Length, head and hody, 
» ta 'b 
,, head, 
„ oar, anteriorly, . 
Breadth, ditto, 
Length, forearm, 
„ thumb, 
„ second finger, 
„ fourth ditto, . . , 
„ tibia, 
„ foot and claws, 
o' 
2 
5 
1.9 
1-75 
1-9 
ITS 
1T5 
IT 
0-75 
0-7 
075 
085 
0-8 
085 
0 65 
0-65 
0-65 
155 
1-55 
1-55 
03 
0-3 
0-3 
245 
2’4 
2-5 
2-0 
1-9 
21 
0-7 
0-7 
0-72 
0-32 
0-32 
0-32 
Generally distributed, but not common. 
Earn. Ehinopomatidje.* 
II i UNO pom a Habdwickxt, Gray. 
This species is extremely common, usually taking up its abode in 
wells. All possess large accumulations of fat posterior to the anus, in much 
greater quantity than usually observed, the mass of fat in many individuals 
probably much exceeding in weight the remainder ol the body. 
Earn. NocrmoxiDiE. 
Taphozous Kachiiexsis, Dobson, n. sp. 
In form, colour of the fur, and size corresponds very closely with T. 
saccolaimws , Geoff., but easily distinguished by the complete absence of the 
gular pouch in both male and female. A small fold of wing-membrane forms 
a shallow pouch in the angle between the radius and fifth metacarpal bone, 
much less developed than in T. longimanus, Hardw. Ears as in T. saccolai- 
mus, but slightly larger, and the tragus is naked ; inner margin bordered 
with a row of small papules. 
* I have formed this family, provisionally, for the reception of the genus Rhino- 
poma of which the type, Rh. Hardwickti, is the sole representative. This genus has 
been classed by Drs. Gray and Peters with tbo Mecjadermatidce, but, on carefully com- 
paring the skeleton of Megaderma lym with that of Rhinopoma UardwicHi, I find not 
the least ostcological connection. The genus is, evidently , far more closely related 
to some of the genera of Noctilionidt £ than to Megaderma, 
