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THE MAMMALS OF EGYPT. 
St.-IIilaire, in describing T. perforatus, pointed out that this West-African bat (in all 
likelihood identical with the specimens from that area of Africa described by Dobson) 
was in many respects like the Egyptian bat. Desmarest however, in 1820, described 
the Senegal bats under the name of T. senegalensis, a name which does not appear in 
Dobson’s catalogue. The latter author’s West-African bats should doubtless have 
appeared under the last-mentioned specific term, and not under that of T. perforatas, 
E. Geofi'r. St.-Hil., a species which at that time was unrepresented in the British 
Museum. 
[An examination of the two skins in the British Museum, which are presumably the 
individuals upon which Dobson based his description, leaves it still doubtful whether 
the West-African form differs materially from examples taken in Egypt. Owing to the 
closing in of the membranes in these dried specimens, the development of the gular 
sac and the position at which the wing springs from the leg are not clearly shown to 
differ.— W. E. de W.] 
Tapuozous xuDiVENTRis, Cretzschiu. (Plate XX. fig. 2.) 
Taphozous niidiventris, Cretz. RuppelFs Atlas nordl. Afr. 18.26, p. 70, pi. 27b] Temm. Monogr. 
Mamm. ii. 1835-41, p. 280, pi. lx. figs. 10 to 12 (skull) ; Riippell, Mus. Senck. iii. 1845, p. 155 ; 
Wagner SchrebePs Saugetb. Suppl. v. p. 684; Fitz. & Heugl. SB. k. Akad. Wien, liv. i. 
1866, p. 544 ; Tristram, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1866, p. 93 ; Dobson, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1875, p. 553; 
Monogr. As. Cbirop. 1876, p. 171 ; Cat. Cbirop. B. M. 1878, p. 387; Heuglin, Reise N.O.- 
Afr. ii. 1877, p. 26; Anderson, Cat. Mamm. Ind. Mus. pt. i. 1881, p. 148; Tristram, West. 
Palest. 1884, p. 28; Neliring, Kat. Saugetb. K. Landw. Hoebseb. Berk 1886, p. 4 ; Jeutink, 
Mus. Pays-Bas, ix. 1887, p. 287; Monticelli, Ann. & Mag. N. H. (6) iii. 1889, p. 488; 
Noack, Jahrb. Hamb. Anst. ix. 1891, p. 137; Tbomas, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1894, p. 449; 
Trouessart, Cat. Mamm. 1897, p. 140. 
Taphozous kachhensis, Dobson, Proc. As. Soc. Beng. 1872, p. 152; Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xli. pt. 2, 
1872, p. 221; Murray, Hist. Zool. Sind, 1884, p. 18; Blanford, Fauna Brit. Ind., Mamm. 
1891, p. 349. 
Taphozous nudiventris, subsp. kachhensis, Dobson, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1875, p. 554; Monogr. As. 
Cbir. 1876, p. 172; Cat. Cbir. B. M. 1878, p. 388; Anderson, Cat. Mamm. Ind. Mus. pt. i. 
1881, p. 148. 
Nycticejus serratus, Heuglin, Reise N.O.-Afr. ii. 1877, p. 35. 
Taphozous perforatus. var. assabensis, Monticelli, Ann. Acc. o. Costa d. Aspir. Nat. Era. (3) vol. i. 
1885, p. 78, pi. vii.; id. Atti Soc. Ital. vol. xxviii. 1885, p. 169. 
. Cairo. 
? . Gizeb. Capt. S. S. Flower, May 1901. 
^ Mamm. 1820, p. 130. 
