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THE MAMMALS OE EGYPT. 
SCOTOPHILUS. 
Scotophilus, Leach, Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. 1822, p. 69. 
Muzzle short, conical, nearly naked; nostrils with their inner margins projecting, 
lunate, opening laterally or sublaterally. Ears longer than broad, usually much 
shorter than the head; tips rounded; outer border arising behind and below the level 
of the mouth in a distinct convex lobe. Tragus generally tapering, more or less bent 
inwards. Tail contained within the interfemoral membrane, except its slender distal 
end. Membranes leathery. 
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Dentition : i. g, c. j, pm. y, m. g = 30. 
JJistrihution. —Ethiopia, Oriental and Australian Regions. 
Scotophilus schliefeni, Peters. (Plate XIX. %. 3.) 
Nycticejns schliefenii, Vetera, MiB. Alt. Berl. 1859, p. 224; Heuglin, Reise N.O.-Afr. ii. 1877, 
p. 34; Matschie, Saugeth. Deutsch-Ost-Afr. 1895, p. 24. 
Vespermjo {Scotozous) schliefenii, Dobsou, Monogr. As. Cliir. 1876, p. 118; Cat. Cliir. B. M. 1878, 
p. 244; Trouessart, Cat. Mamm. fasc. i. 1897, p. 117. 
Scotophilus pallidus, Dobson {partinfi), Cat. Chir. B. M. 1878, p. 264. 
Scotophilus schliefeni, Matschie, SB. Gesellsch. naturf. i'r. Berl. 1893, no. 1, p. 26; Yerbnry & 
Thomas, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1895, p. 546. 
Scotophilus pallidus {nec Dobson), Thomas & Doria, Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova, (2) iv. 1886, p. 206. 
Scotophilus minimus, Noack, Zool. JB. ii. 1887, p. 280. 
1 9 . Suakin. Major Penton, R.A.M.C., D.S.O. 
1 9 . Suakin, Government House. 
Forehead distinctly raised above the level of the face ; muzzle broad, rounded, with 
the glandular eminences prominent and raised above the mesial line of the face, so as 
to constitute a furrow from between the nostrils and each eye. Ears more or less 
triangular, tip broadly rounded; inner border more or less slightly convex, base 
broadly rounded; outer border nearly straight in its upper half, then abruptly convex 
from behind forwards to a notch on a line with the base of the tragus, and attached 
over the base of the angle of the lower jaw a short distance behind and beloiv the level 
of the angle of the mouth, and anterior in position to the attachment nf the inner 
border of the ear, and only slightly behind the vertical of the external canthus of the 
eye. Tragus shortly falcate, bent forwards, concave anteriorly, convex posteriorly, and 
rounded at its tip, its breadth less than one-third its length. Wings arising from 
