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paper ' type, closely 'packed, small, and scarcely so spreading as in any 

 species of Kcrivoula. — (PI. 3, Jiff. 57 hu-ffc hair, fig. 5G small hiir.) 



88.— Vespertilio imbbicatus. Horsf.—Q Horsfield's Vespertilio.')— 

 Java. — " Fur both above and underneath is brown with a fulvous lustre," 

 (Horsjield) ; large hairs nearly smooth at the edge ; scales crowded and 

 appressed; small hairs serrated; scales cylindrical, nearly plane, margin 

 entire or sinuated, when viewed in balsam striate. (PI. 3, fig. 58.J 



89.— Vespertilio tralatitius. fforftf.—(' Sooty Vespertilio.')— Java 

 and Sumatra.— " Fur of moderate length, of a sooty black tint above, under- 

 neath sooty with a grayish cast," (Horsfield) ; large hairs minutely 

 seiTated at the edge ; smaller hairs more broadly and deeply serrated ; 

 serratures opposite or alternate ; scales generally investing the shaft ; 

 margin waved, often oblique, slightly coloured ; hairs becoming transparent 

 and slightly striate in balsam. — {PI. 3, fig. 59.) 

 90. — Vespertilio blepotis. Gray. — Timor. — Hair not examined. 

 91.— Myotis MURESfUS. ^6'ZZ.— Europe, Himalayas.— Hair not ex- 

 amined. 



92.— Myotis Berdmorei. ^Zy^A.— Tenasserim provinces.— Hair not ex- 

 amined. 



93.— Myotis pipistrellus. ^eZZ.- Europe, Himalaya (?) 

 94.— Myotis Theobaldi. ^Zy^/i.— Masuri.>— Hair not examined. 

 95.— Myotis parvipes. i?^y^/t.—Kasbmir.— Hair not examined. 

 96.— Myotis lepidus. Blgfh.—B.aiv not examined. 

 97. — Plecotus homochrous. Hodgs.— {''Nepal eared bat.')— Nepal. — 

 Hairs flattened, with a deeply notched or serrated outline ; serratures opposite 

 or alternate; scales semi-ambient, darkened towards their free margin, 

 scarcely to be distinguished, except in size, from the following ; the figures in 

 the plate do not sufficiently indicate this difference. — (PL 3, fig. 60 Jiair as 

 seen in balsam, fig. 62 huir mounted dry.) 



98.— Plecotus Darjelingensis. IIodgs.— {' ^Wikim. eared bat.')— Sik- 

 kim. — Hairs flattened, smaller than in the above, with a deeply notched or 

 serrated outline ; serratures opposite or alternate ; scales semi-ambient, dark- 

 ened at the margin; striate in balsam. — (PI. 3, fig. 63, 64; liair in two 

 positions.) 



Both the foregoing are undoubtedly identical with the British species 

 Plecotus auritus. Bell. 



99.— Barbastellus communis. Cray.— Europe, Himalayas.— Hair 

 not examined. 



100. — Nyctophilus Geoffroyi. Leach. — Europe, Himalayas. — Hair 

 not examined. 



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Note. — The author would be glad to receive specimens of the hair of any 

 of the species not yet examined, if the individuals from which the hair is de- 

 rived are well authenticated. 



