460 Mr. 0. Thomas on a new and veil of ptntacts, tlie two former features not being so plainly visible from one and the same aspect. Fig. 2. Pentactine spicule (pleural prostalia), X 68. Fig. 3. Autogastral diact, X 225. Fig. 4. Large discoctaster, x 300, Fig. 5. Small discoctaster, x 300. Fig. 6, O.xyhe.xaster, X 3U0. LVIII. — On a new Genus and Species of VfspertiUonine But from East Africa. Bj Oldfield ThomAS. Hardly had my description of Scotcecus Hindei* been pub-lislied than the Museum received from Dr. Hinde a second new bat, so distinct from all previously known as to require the formation of a new genus for its recejjtion. It is the analogue of the South-American Ilistiotus in Africa, and may be called by a name having a similar meaning to that word — Ljephotis t, gen. nov. Most nearly allied to Vespertilio, but the ear and tragus eidarged as in Histiotus. Skull, as compared with tliut of the allied form, long and narrow, flattened above, very smooth and little ridged, the crests scarcely perceptible. Palate narrow, its posterior part unusually produced backward. BuUce rather large. Dental formula as in Vespertilio. Up]jer incisors close to canines, instead of being well sepa-rated from them, the tip of the lower canine biting on to the top of, or outside, the outer incisor, instead of between it and the upper canine. In correlation with this the lower canine is unusually short and feeble, its length from cingulum to tip not exceeding the outer horizontal length of ni.\ Detailed proportions of teeth as described below. Tj/pe and only species La'photis Wintoni, sp. n. Size rather less than in Histiotus velatas ; general appear-ance very much as in that species, although the ears are not so large. Fur close and fine, the hairs of the back about 6-7 millim. in length. General colour above coppery brown, the basal halves of the hairs sooty, the terminal halves clear * Ann. k Mag. Xat. Hist. (7) vii. p. 263 (1901). t AaT0or, n sail.
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