Phillips's Long-fingered Bat was described from material in India and Sri Lanka. This account focuses on its documented cave records in Sri Lanka.
Its dense, soft fur is chocolate brown above and slightly paler underneath. It has short, rounded ears and a short, broad muzzle.
It is recorded from caves in Sri Lanka. Specimens from Doteloya were roosting in a granite cave at the edge of tropical wet lowland rainforest.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.