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SCIENTIFIC RESULTS FROM THE MAMMAL SURVEY. 



No. XXI. 



BY Oldfield Thomas, f.r.s., &c. 



{Published by permission of the Trustees of the British Alttsenm.) 



.4.— SOME NEW MAMMALS FROM BALUCHISTAN 

 AND NORTH-WEST INDIA. 



Among the fine series of Mammals from Baluchistan contributed 

 by Col. J. E. B. Hotson to the Bombay Natural History Society 

 there occur a number of interesting small mammals which have 

 been put into my hands for examination. 



As a result the following new species seem to require descrip- 

 tion : — 



Myotis lanceus, sp. n. 



A bufFy greyish species with woolly fur and deeply notched 

 ears. 



Size decidedly larger than in M. emarginatv.s, to which its woolly 

 fur and notched ears give it a certain resemblance. 



Fur cjuite woolly, just about as in emarginatus ; hairs of fore 

 back and withers over 8 mm. in length, those of hind back 5 mm. 

 Interfemoral slightly hairy proximally above, without frijige ; 

 otherwise all the membranes are naked; legs and hind feet with 

 fine hairs on them. 



General colour greyish bufF}^, the hairs slaty at base, with a 

 broad buffy whitish subterminal ring and inconspicuous tawny tip. 

 Undersurface dull creamy white, the hairs white nearly to their 

 roots. Ears of medium length, their inner margin strongly and 

 evenly convex, outer margin angularly emarginate. Tragus 

 straight. 



Skull larger and heavier than in emarginatus, with broader 

 muzzle ; not so large as in formosics. Relative proportions of 

 premolars about as in emarginatiis, the small p^ in the tooth row. 



Dimensions : — Forearm, 45 mm. 



Head and body (from dry skin), 55 mm.; tail (c), 37; ear (wet), 

 15 X 10 ; tragus on inner edge, 7 ; third finger, metacarpus, 39*5 ; 

 first phalanx, IG ; lower leg and foot (c. u.), 30. 



Skull : greatest length, 16; median length, 14-6; zygomatic 

 breadth, 10-3 ; iuterorbital breadth, 4 ; breadth across upper canines, 



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