78 Proceedings of the Asiatic Soetety. [ Marcu, 
The typical number of phalanges in the 2nd, 3rd and 4th fingers 
of a bat is two in each digit ; this number is often exceeded in many 
genera of Insectivorous bats by the addition of another short pha- 
lanx, but in no genus, hitherto described, is the number less than 
two. As the greatest breadth of a bat’s wing is usually found by 
measuring along the 4th finger, it follows that, in this typical spe- 
cies where we find the terminal phalanx of the 4th finger rudimen- 
tary, and the homologue of the 1st phalanx only in other bats, (the 
2nd and 3rd phalanges being suppressed), the wing must be com- 
paratively extremely narrow. On account of this remarkable nar- 
rowness of the wing, the author suggests to call the new genus 
“* Stenopterus.”’ The type species is from Darjeeling. 
The new Kerivoula differs from other allied species by certain 
peculiarities in the shape of the head, of the ears &c. The specific 
name aurata is proposed for it. 
On Indian and Malayan Telphusida, by J. Wood-Mason, Esq. 
The receipt of the following communication was also announced. 
Notes on birds observed in the neighbourhood of Nagpir, Kampti, 
Central Provinces, Chikalda and Akola in Berar, by Lt.-Col. A. C. 
McMaster, Madras Staff Corps. 
Liprary, 
The following additions have been made to the Library since the 
meeting, held in February last. 
Presentations. 
y%*, Names of Donors in Capitals. 
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London for 
‘ 1870, vol. 160, part I.—Royal Society Catalogue of Scientific papers, 
vol. [V.—THe Roya Socizry or Lonpon. 
Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society, vol. XVI, No. 
5.—Tue R. GeocrapuicaL Society or Lonpon. 
Journal of the Linnean Society, Zoology, Nos. 47 and 48, Bota- 
ny 53 and 54.—Transactions of the same, vol. XXVI, part 4, 
XXVII, parts 1 and 2.—Tue Lrynzan Socrery or Lonpon. 
Geschichtliche Ergebnisse der Aegyptologie—Die Entfaltung 
der Idee des Menschen durch die Weltgeschichte.—Sitzungsberichte 
1869, II. Heft iii-iv ; 1870, I. Hefte i-iv— Abhandlungen der Phi- 
