60 MAMMALIA OF INDIA. 
SUB-FAMILY VESPERTILIONIDA. 
These bats have simple nostrils, as in the frugivorous ones, with no 
complications of foliated cutaneous appendages ; the muzzle is conical, 
moderately long, and clad with fur; the ears wide apart; the inner 
margins springing from the sides, not ‘the top of the head ; the tragi are 
large ; eyes usually very small, and the tail, which is long, is wholly 
included in the membrane. 
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Dentition (usually) : Inc., ; can., —!; pre-mol., 3 Y=2; mol., 33" 
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The upper incisors are small, £ pee in pairs near the canines, 
leaving a gap in the centre. The lower ones sharp-edged and some- 
what notched. At birth there are twenty-two teeth, which are shed, and 
replaced by others, with sixteen additional ones, the adult bat having 
thirty-eight teeth. 
GENUS PEECOTES, 
Ears very large, united at the base; outer margin of the ear conch 
terminating opposite the base of the tragus, the inner margin with an 
abrupt rounded projection directed inwards above the base ; tragus very 
large, tapering upwards, with a jobe at the base as the outer margin. 
Dentition: Inc., = + Cand - == spre “molars, = —2; molars, 3—3, 
os = 
The English species P. eee is very eopenen there, and also in 
France ; its ears are nearly as long as its body, yet, when reposing, 
they are so folded as to be almost out of sight. The Indian species is 
only a variety distinguishable by its yet longer ears (“and comparative 
shortness of the thumbs ”—Dodsoz). 
No: 77; 
PLECOTUS AURITUS ve/ HOMOCHROUS. 
Hasitat. — The Himalayas and the 
Khasia Hills. 
DESCRIPTION. — Head slightly raised 
above the face-line ; ears nearly as long 
as the fore-arm, joined by a low band 
across the forehead at the bases of their 
inner margins ; wings from the base of the 
toes; feet slender; tip of the tail free ; 
fur silky, short, and of a uniform dull 
Plecotus auritus. brown. 
