28+ MR. C. BODEN KLOSS ON 



recorded as s'-foriraha ni'ircsceits by Boiiliote in V. /,. S., ]90U, p. b?-!. 

 Though the latter is not so brown as malai/na it is browner than the 

 present aniiuah It is perhaps a little faded, but as it is accompanied 

 bj' neiliier skull nor measurements it is difficult to saj' exactly what 

 it is. 



3. Scotophilus gairineri sp. nov. 



Tj/^ie (and only specimen examined). Adult male, skin and 

 skull. Collected at Paknampo. Central Siam, on 6th August 1917, by, 

 Mr. K. G. Gairdiier. Author's number 2612/C.B.K. 



Charaders. About the same size as S. castaneus Horsf., of the 

 Malay Peninsula, and S. irrouijhtoni Thomas, of Bombay,* but darker 

 above than either. Rostrum of skull narrower than in S. castaneas. 



Colour. Above bistre, the head darker ; the base jf the fur, 

 especially anteriorly, brownish white. Below pale drab, the base of 

 the fur whitish, the latter colour showing most on the neck, anal 

 region and tliiylis : sides of head and neck like the crown, the drab 

 of the fore-neck e.xtending slightly forward in the median line. The 

 membranes bordering the forearms- with white hairs, those bordering 

 the sides with pale drab hairs and the inteifemoral membrane with 

 yellowish-drab hairs near the body. 



Sli-iiU and teeih. Skull like that of S. raslanuns but with rostrum 

 and palate narrower. Teeth apparently similar. 



Measurements: — Head and body, 8U ; tail. 41; hindfoot, s. u. 

 9; ear, 15; forearm, 48; tibia, 19. 



Shvll: — greatest ujiper median length, Iti.G; basi-sinual length, 

 13.4; palatal length, 6.5: palatal breadth between m:\ ( alveoli ) 4.9 ; 

 breadth between tips of upper canines, 4.9 ; breadth of rostrum between 

 anteorbital foramina, 6.2 ; u]iper breadth of rostrum between angular 

 points of ridges, G.9 ; front of canine to back of last molar, 6.6 : greatest 

 length of mandible, 14.0 ; front of canine to back of last molar, 7.4. 



Remarks, fn its pale underparts this bat bears some resemblance 

 to S. ii-roaqldnni which has recently' been recorded from Central 

 Burma t and which lias the undersurlace "very pale fawn, almost 



•.lonni. IJoniliay Nal. Hist Soc, XI, p. 275 (1«'J7). Also Wn.u-li- 

 ton, (>[>. ('it.. XII. p. 721, jil. niiiuniitiercd.li:.,'. 1 (I81)'.l) 

 •f Wioiighlun, (ip. (.•!(. XXUl, p. 467 (llH.jj. 



JUlK.N. .NAi, nib I. but. MAM 



