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Specimens from Java are a trifle larger, and from f'liina a trifle smaller. 



Distributed over Europe, the Canary Islands, China, the Khasi Hills, and no 

 doubt Burma also. 



V. AFi-ixis, Dobson. 



Head flat ; glands of the upper lip so developed as to cause a deep depression 

 between them on the face, behind the nostrils. The tail is louf?, of nine vertebra", 

 the last free. Colour above ehoeolatc-brown, lighter on the head and neck. Beneath 

 dark brown, with paler or ashy tips to the hair. On the pubes and along the thighs 

 dirty white or very jiale but!. 



Length of liead and body I'D; tail TOj iuehes. 



Inhabits Bhamo, Yunau. 



Sub-genus Veupcrus. 



Incisors i; P.M. j-. Post-caleaneal lobe narrow. "Wings from tlu; base of the 

 toes. Thumbs and soles of the feet simple. 



V. PACHTOTis, Dobson. 



"This species is readily distinguisheil by the jjeculiar thickness of the lower half 

 of the outer side of the car-conch, which appears, as it were, excavated out of the 

 thick integument of the neck." Muzzle very broad and short; with well-develo])ed 

 glandular prominences. Immediately behind them, a furrow extends from the anterior 

 corner of one eye to that of the otlu^r, beyond which, the fur of the head does not pass. 



Fur brown, dark above, paler below. 



Adult male, head and body 2-2; tail TG inches 



Type from the Khasi Hills. Tliis species probably ranges into Arakan. 



Dobson remarks, " In the form of the ears and muzzle especially, and generally 

 in the whole conformation, this species appears to belong to the sub-genus Vespenigo, 

 but the absence of the first miniit(! upper premolar relegates it to Vexperus. Nothing 

 could illustrate better the artiticial (diaractcr of these subgenera, which, however, arc 

 convenient in determining the species " (Mon. Asiat. Chir. p. 105). 



V. AxDKRSONi, Dobson. 



Head broad and flat. Tail of eight vcrtebrse, the last alone free. Fur above 

 dark brown, with greyish tijis. Beneath light greyish- brown for the basal two-thirds, 

 the remainder of the hair ashy. 



Length — head and body 2'G; tail I'O inches. 



Inhabits Momcin, Yunau. 



Sub-genus Tylonydcris. 



Incisors | ; P.M. J. Base of the thumbs and soles of the feet with broad fleshy 

 pads. Crown of the head remarkably flattened. 



V. PACHYPrs, Teni. 



Scotophilus fulviilm, Bly th. 

 T. Meyeri, Peters. 



Tail projecting by the extreme tip only. Fur dense, above bright reddish- 

 brown, paler beneath. 



Length — head and body 1'75; tail 1'3 inches. 

 Inhabits India, The Andaman Islands, and Tenasserim. 



Sub-genus Alobus. 



Incisors J; P.M. f. No postcalcaueal lobe. 



V. AXNECTA.NS, Dobson. 



Extreme tip of tail free. Colour brown, darker above, and the tips of the upper 

 surface paler, of the lower surface reddish. The hair forms a thick fiiuge along tlie 

 margin of the upper lip. 



Length of head and body 2'0 ; tail TO inches. 



Inhaliits the Naga Hills, an<l probalily ranges into .\rakan. This species unites 

 the external appearance of a Ves^crltUu with the dentitiou of Fe.ijiirtii/o. 



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