NYCTINOMUS ^GTPTIACUS. 
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the fur extends outwards to a less distance, ending by an abrupt, well-defined, straight 
margin. Measurements : head and body 66 millim.; tail 41 ; head 25 ; ear 23 ; tragus 
5 Xo‘2 ; forearm 49'5 ; thumb 5'5 ; 3rd finger metacarp, 49,1st phal. 19, 2nd phal. 20 ; 
4th finger metacarp. 45 ; 5th finger metacarp. 29 ; tibia 13; hind foot 8‘5.” 
As a synonym of JV. twniotis Dobson gave A^. midas, Sundev. (K. Vetensk.-Ak. Handl. 
Stockh. 1842, p. 207), from Sennaar; but this is a very distinct species with exceedingly 
powerful teeth, and belongs to a group having completely ossified premaxillae, while in 
A', tceniotis and its allies there is a large vacuum in the palate between and behind the 
incisors. 
There is still another species of this genus which, at any rate occasionally, occurs in 
Egypt. The only specimen known is a skin in the British Museum collected by 
Mr. Francis Galton above Assuan (First Cataract). It is mentioned in Dobson’s 
Catalogue, p. 428, and is rightly described as being nearly related to A! j)umilus, 
Cretzschmar (Biipp. Atlas, pi. 27), from Massowah. In the paper already referred to I 
have further shown that these two forms have much in common, especially the complete 
ossification of the palate, but further material is necessary to show their true 
relationship. This Assuan specimen is a very small bat with a forearm only 43 
millim. in length ; it has been called N. pumilus, subsp. major, in Trouessart’s Cat 
Mamm. 1898, p. 146.—W. E. de W.] 
