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 A NEW LONG-EARED BAT FROM NORTHERN INDIA. 



In a recent number of The Annals and Magazine, of Natural History (Vol. 20, 

 No. 120, December 1907, p. 521), Mr. G. E. H. Barrett-Hamilton, under the 

 heading " Descriptions of two new species of Plecotus," describes the following 

 new species of Long-eared Bat from Northern India : — 



Plecotus puck, sp. n. 



This bat resembles P. auritus of Britain and is of similar size, but has a quite 

 distinct skull. 



The colour of the basal portions'of the hairs is everywhere dusky, the tips are 

 above between Ridgway's "Isabella colour " and "broccoli-brown," below 

 whitish ; the upper side has a grizzled appearance. The skull, as compared 

 with Central European examples (? austriacus or Geoffroy), is smaller, but 

 about equal in size to those from England. The facial region and palate are, 

 however, narrower and the backward extension of the latter less pronounced ; 

 the auditory bullae are larger. The dimensions of the type (in millimetres) are 

 as follows :— 



Head and body 40 ; tail 50 ; ear 41 ; ear from the notch 32 ; tragus 16 ; thumb 

 without claw 8 ; longest digit 60 ; basal joint of fifth digit 32; basal joint of 

 second digit 34*5 ; forearm 38 ; tibia 17 ; hind foot without claw 8. 



The type is a skin, No. 5.11.19.1. of the British Museum collection. It is a 

 male taken at Murree, N. India, altitude 7,500 feet, by Capt. E. T. F. Birrell, 

 R.A.M.C., on the 20th of August 1905. 



This bat approaches more closely to European Plecoti than to others in the 

 Museum from Tor, Sinai, and from Ladak. The latter are in both cases larger, 

 in which character they agree with two from Hokkaido, Japan. They are, 

 perhaps, referable to Hodgson's P. homochrous. 



