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fclie base of the toes ; post-calcaneum lobe shallow. Last two caudal 

 vertebras free ; the projecting portion twice as long as the thumb. 

 Face covered with short fur. Upper lip fringed with straight hairs, 

 which also cover the chin, radiating outwards from a small central 

 wart beneath ; above, dark brown, deep bay, or smoke brown, with 

 pale brown tips ; beneath, yellowish brown. Upper incisors bifid, 

 the cusps equal in length. Outer incisors very short, scarcely more 

 than one-third of the length of the inner incisors. Lower incisors 

 trifid. 



Hah. — Sind, Persia, Himalayas and Mussoorrie. Dobson gives its 

 hablhat as the Palteartic, -Ethiopian, Oriental, Neartic, and Neotropical 

 regions. In the first, distributed generally from England to Siberia 

 and from North Germany to Northern Africa, extending through 

 Arabia and Asia Minor to India; in the Ethiopian region as far south as 

 the Gaboon. 



Vesperugo nasutus, Bolton, Jour. As. Soc. Beng. 1877, p. 311 ; 

 Cat. Chir. Br. Mus. p. 200 ; Anderson, Cat. Mam. hid. Mus. p. 125. 



Head flat, muzzle conical, the extremity projecting considerably 

 beyond the lower lip in front, terminated by the margins of the 

 nostrils, which open sublaterally. Ears shorter than the head, triangu- 

 lar, with rounded off tips ; the inner margin commences above the eye, and 

 does not form a distinct rounded lobe at its base, but is almost straight 

 from the base to the tip of the ear ; the outer margin also straiglit 

 and terminates rather abruptly midway beneath the tragus and the 

 angle of the mouth. Tragus much longer than broad, directed 

 slightly inwards, reaching its greatest width below the middle of its 

 inner margin ; outer margin convex, with an ill-defined lobe near the 

 base, tip subacutely pointed. Tail almost wholly contained in the 

 interfemoral membrane, the last rudimentary caudal vertebrae alone 

 free. No post-calcaneum lobe. Wings from the base of the toes. Fur 

 short ; above pale yellowish brown ; beneath, pale buff" almost white ; 

 membranes light brown, traversed by numerous white reticula- 

 tions. Face nearly naked in front of the eyes : a few hairs fringe 

 the lips. Wing and interfemoral membrane almost naked ; upper 

 incisors long, unicuspidate ; outer short. Lower incisors trifid, 

 placed across the direction of the jaws. The single upper premolar 

 close to the canine, as in Vesperugo serotinus, the first lower premolar 

 not half the second in vertical extent, with a prominent internal and 

 anterior basal cusp. 



Length.— Kesid and body I'S", tail 1-7", head 0-68*', ear 0-6", tragus 

 0-25", forearm 1-45", thumb 0-45", third finger (metacarpal) 1-3", first 

 phalange 0'48", second phalange 0*7"; fourth finger (metacarpal) 1*3", 

 first phalange 04", second phalange 0-4'''; fifth finger (metacarpal) 

 1-3", first phalange 0-28", second phalange 0-28"; tibia 0-55", foot 0-28". 



Hah. — Shikarpoor and Sukkur (Sind). Not known outside th© 

 province. 



