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fuliginous all over, with the exception of a broad frontal band extending from the 
eye to the ears and across the temples, on which it is most pronounced, downwards to 
the angle of the mouth ; the tip of the skin of the almost hairless tail white. 
The black fuliginous colour is due to the long fur, the thick under-fur being not so 
dark and even tending to grey. 
Frankfort Museum, 
1. Megalotis fmnelicus, Riippelb Icon. EuppelPs Atlas, taf. 5. This is a male, although it is not 
marked as such. 
2. Nubia, Dr. Riippell, 1823. 
3. Another, marked ? , 1823. The two latter are marked original,” i. e. "types.” 
The first, the largest of these specimens, is smaller than Vul^es cegyptiaca, and is 
distinguished from it by its much larger ears. All the specimens are of a pale 
sandy colour, finely speckled brown and white on the dorsal region, and the cross¬ 
band on the shoulder visible; but owing to the age of the specimens (70 years), the 
colour has evidently much faded. The upper lip, the cheeks, the sides of the neck, 
the area behind the ears, the throat, chest, lower parts of sides and belly, the inner sides 
of the fore limbs, the fronts and inner sides of the hind limbs and feet, pale yellowish 
white; the front of the fore limbs of the largest and smallest specimens being tinged 
with pale brown, finely white-speckled, while the long hairs around the toes are 
slightly rufous. A narrow pale dusky rufous band separating the neck from the chest. 
A narrow area above the eyes, and a broader space behind and below” them and 
prolonged to the nose, bright rufous, but the extent to which this band is developed 
varies. Backs of the ears concolorous with the rufous-yellow or sandy colour of the 
top of the head. The middle of the dorsal region, the outsides of the fore limbs, the 
lower half of the outside and back of the thighs, and the back of the tarsus rufous. 
The tail is pale yellowish sandy, washed with reddish brown, the tip being nearly 
white. 
Snout to vent, about 
Tail, approximately 
Height of ears . . 
Breadth of ears . . 
c?. 
mm. 
mm. 
498 
425 
310 
312 
101-5 
84 
56 
45 
The skulls are in the specimens, so that it is impossible to say anything about 
them. 
