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THE MAMMALS OF EGYPT. 
case in several of what are admittedly Scotophili. It is true that it has occasionally 
an anterior upper premolar; but this only occurs in one of the many specimens known, 
and may be simply an individual variation.” 
The two examples of this species from Suakin were both obtained in houses. 
The one procured by myself was knocked down from among a crowd of Coleura 
afra, which issued at sundown from the underground cellars of Government House. 
This species has been recorded from Cairo, Kordofan, Suakin, Assab, Tigre, 
Mombasa, and German East Africa; also from Aden and Arabia. Colonel Giffard 
also found it in the Gold Coast Hinterland ; so in all probability the species extends 
across the continent south of the Sahara. 
BARBASTELLUS. 
Barbastellns, Gray, Zool. Journ. ii. 18,26, p. 243. 
Barbastellus BARBASTELLUS, Schreb. 
Vespertilio barbastellus, Schreb. Saug. i. 1775, p. 168, pi. 55. 
Vespertilio leucomelas, Cretz., RuppelFs Atlas nordl. Afr. 1828, p. 73, tab. 28 A; Temm. Monogr. 
ii. 1825-41, p. 204. 
Synotus leucomelas, Heuglin, Reise N.O.-Afr. ii. 1877, p. 30. 
The bat described by Cretzschmar from Arabia Petriea has been identified as a 
specimen of the Barbastelle {B. barbastellus) of Europe. Heuglin records it from 
Massowah, so there is every probability that this species, occasionally at any rate, finds 
its way to the neighbouring country of Egypt.—W. E. de W. * 
