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Of the second sub-order, i.e., the MICROCHIROPTERA, or insect- 

 eaters, the first family (RHINOLOPHID^) is, so far as I know, not 

 represented in our area, and the second, NY( -TERIDiE, is so by one 

 species only, viz: — 



Megaderma. 

 Meciaderma lyra, Geoff. (No. lo9). 



The Indian Tampire is a very common and widely distributed bat 

 throughout the Konkan. I took specimens at Kim and at Bandra, the 

 two extreme north and south points of our are;), but have found it 

 everywhere. It flies very low and swiftly, skimmir.g o\er the open 

 ground in search of food, and so does not attract notice on the wing. 

 Almost every old dry well r.nd cave, however, will be found to har- 

 bour a roosting colony of this bat. In L'andra, where probablv no 

 such places were available, I got it roosting in the gable roof of a 

 bungalow. 



The next family, VESPERTILIONIDiE, (ontains the bulk of cur 

 bats, and it is here that correction is required in the nomenclature of 

 Blanford's Manual. As already partly pointed out by Mr. Thomas 

 in his paper in our Journal, Vespenigo as a genus (p. 296) dis- 

 appears, and its sub-genera (p. 302) are raised to generic value, their 

 names however being changed as follows : — Vespertilio, Pipistrellus and 

 Hespero ptenus are substituted respectively for Vesperus, Vesperugo and 

 Ilesperoptenus as given by Blandford. Further (p. 296) Scotophilus 

 must be used for Nyctkejus. Finally Vespertilio having been taken for 

 Vesperus must be replaced (p. 296) by Myotis. This last change, how- 

 ever, does not affect this paper, for no representative of the genus Myotis 

 occurs in our area. The same is true of VespeHilio (late Vesperus) ; on 

 the other hand Pipislrellus (late Vesperugo) is the best represented 

 genus we have, there being three known species, all of which are 

 common, if local, and to these I am adding two new ones. 



Pipistrellus. 

 Pipistrellus dormeri, Dobs. (No. 19o). 



Blanford knew of only three specimens of this bat, and when Mr. 

 Thomas found another in my first collection, he had still to write of it, as 

 "this rare bat." In 1898 I found it quite common in the Mandvi Taluka 

 of Surat, where 1 collected 16 specimens (viz., 11 males and 5 females). 

 Later I got a male at Bulsar and Mr. Dodgson shot another at Pareli, 



