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Taphozous perfokatus, E. GeofFr. (Plate XX. fig. 1.) 
Taphozous perforatus, E. Geoffr. St.-Hil. Descr. de PEgypte, Hist. Nat. ii. 1818, p. 126; Atlas, 
pi. 3. no. 1, and pi. 4. nos. 4 to 4"; Desm. Nouv. Diet, xxxii. p. 448 ; id, Mamna. 1820, p. 131; 
Diet, des Sc. Nat. t. lii. p. 221, e. fig.; Temm. Monogr. ii. 1835-41, p. 281, pi. 60. figs. 13-14, 
eranium ; Sehinz, Saugeth. i. 1844, p. 210; Riippell, Mus. Senek. iii. 1845, p. 155; Wagner, 
SehrebePs Saugeth., Suppl. v. p, 684; Eitz. & Heugl. SB. k. Akad. Wiss. Wien, liv. i. 
1866, p. 545; Gaseo, Viaggio in Egitto, pt. i. 1876, p 96; Heuglin, Reise N.O.-Afr. ii. 
1877, p. 25; Anderson, Cat. Mamm. Ind. Mus. pt. i. 1881, p. 148; Nehring, Cat. Saugeth. 
1886, p. 4; Montieelli, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (6) iii. p. 488; Jentink, Mus. d’Hist. Nat. 
Pays-Bas, ix. 1887, p. 286; Yerhury & Thomas, Proe. Zool. Soc. 1895, p. 547. 
Taphozous senegalensis, Fitz. & Heugl. SB. k. Ak. Wiss. Wien, liv. i. 1866, p. 545, 
1 g . Tomh o£ the Hyaena, Gizeh. 
1 sex ? Beni Hasan. Mr. M. W, Blaekden. 
2 g'. Tomhs opposite Assuan. 
4 g and 5 $ . Cavern in desert hills east of Philae. 
Snout pointed, triangular. Upper and lower lips rather thick; muzzle generally 
covered with small glandular eminences, one more prominent than the others above 
the eye anteriorly. Lower lip with two smooth, slightly prominent, fleshy areas 
separated from each other by a short, narrow, haired interspace forming an obscure 
groove. Ears broad, but considerably shorter than the head, when laid forwards 
reaching only a little more than halfway between the eye and the nostril; anterior 
border attached by a fold of skin arising above the eye, straight in its upper two-thirds 
and papillate, rounded off above into the broad external section of the conch; the 
posterior border of the ear is first slightly convex, followed by a feeble concavity, beyond 
which it is broadly rounded backwards and then forwards to its attachment some 
distance behind and below the angle of the mouth ; the lobular portion of the conch is 
more or less folded inwards towards the tragus. Tragus contracted at its middle, 
expanded in its upper portion, the breadth of which equals three-fourths of the entire 
height measured from the margin of the meatus ; stem of tragus haired externally, no 
lobule at its base. No gular pouch is present in the adult male, but a feeble transverse 
fold of skin can be detected in the position it occupies in those species distinguished 
by its presence. 
The wing-membrane arises from between the base of the metacarpals and the tibia. A 
well-developed radio-metacarpal pouch is present. Feet moderately developed. Under 
surface of chin with glandular eminences, and two short parallel ridges corresponding 
to a short ridge on the ramus of each ja\^' behind the symphysis. Face from before the 
frontal pit only sparsely covered with short hairs, and the chin partakes of the same 
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