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arrangement of the teeth. But when we come to examine and com- 
pare these parts in the specimens of the two species, we are at 
once struck by the almost complete similarity of the specimens in 
these respects, the relative importance of which it is unnecessary to 
dwell upon. 
Therefore that part of Prof, Peters’s classification which depends 
on the presence or absence of a claw on the index finger must be 
abandoned, and some other generalisation, based on a more con- 
stant and important character, substituted, but I have not yet 
examiued a sufficient number of species to enable me to indicate 
this character. 
Among the bats obtained by Dr. Stoliczka at the Nicobars three 
specimens of Miniopteris Australis, Tomes, occur. Mr. Tomes in 
describing this species* says ‘‘the name under which I have de- 
scribed this species was given under the impression that it was 
exclusively a native of Australia. It was not until after I had 
arranged and named the specimens in the British Museum and in 
some other collections, that I found it to be aninhabitant of Timor 
(and probably of other islands of the Indian Archipelago), as well 
as of Australia, and that the name of Australis was not strictly 
appropriate. But to avoid the confusion which might possibly 
arise from a change of name, I have thought it desirable that it 
should remain unaltered.” I believe this is the first time I. 
Australis has been recorded from the Nicobars, and in so recording 
it, I not only add a species to the fauna, but also a fresh locality to 
the species placed nearly as far north of the equator as its first 
locality was south of it, so that Mr. Tomes’s surmise has proved 
correct, though I believe in a far wider sense then he expected, 
and taking the name Australis literally, he might with almost equal 
justice have called the species septentrionalis. 
IV.—Norzs on toe Anatomy or Cremnoconcuus SYHADRENSIS, 
by Dr. F. SroriczKa. 
A peculiar amphibious shell, living on the moist precipitous 
rocks of the Western Ghats near Bombay, was described by Mr. 
* Annals and Mag, Nat, Hist. 1858, Vol. II. p. 161. 
