68 MAMMALIA OF INDIA. 
NYCTICEJUS ORNATUS. 
The Harlequin Bat (Jerdon’s No. 48). 
(See ante: Scotophilus ornatus.) 
No. 98. NYCTICEJUS NIVICOLUS. 
Lhe Alpine Bat (Jerdon’s No. 49). 
Hapitat.—Sikim. 
DescripTion.—* Head and body above uniform light brown with a 
slight yellowish shade ; underneath, from the throat to the vent, dark 
grey with a brownish tint, lighter on the sides of the throat. Ears long, 
attenuated to an obtuse point.”—/erdon. 
S1ze.—Head and body, 3 inches; tail, 2 inches; expanse, 19 inches. 
This bat was described by Hodgson (‘ Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist.’ 1855), 
but there is some doubt about it, and it has been classed as a Lasiurus 
and also with Scot. ornatus and Vesp. formosa, but Jerdon thinks it a 
distinct species. I cannot find any mention of it in Dobson’s monograph. 
GENUS HARPIOCEPHALUS. 
This is also the genus Mwrina of Gray. Dr. Dobson explains his 
acceptance of the former term in the following way: that he first 
accepted JZurina on the score of priority in a paper showing that 
Harpiocephalus and Murina must be united in a single genus; but 
finding afterwards that Gray had founded A/urina on a specimen of 
what he believed to be Vesp. suid/us (Temm.), but which was in reality 
a specimen of a very different species from Darjeeling, belonging to the 
same section of the genus as Vespertilio harpia (Temm.) the type of his 
genus Harpiocephalus, it remained therefore either to discard both names 
or to retain Harfiocephalus, in which course he was supported by 
Professor Peters, to whom he mentioned the facts. 
Horsfield’s genus Zastwrus is included in this one, though Jerdon 
considers it distinct from AZurina. 
Muzzle elongated, conical ; nostrils prominent, tubular; produced beyond 
the upper lip, opening laterally or sublaterally, emarginate between ; 
crown of the head scarcely raised above the face line; ears thin, 
generally covered with glandular papillz ; tragus long, attenuated 
towards the tip, and inclined outwards ; thumb very large, with a large, 
strongly curved claw ; wings around interfemoral membrane very hairy. 
—Dobsen, 
2—2 , I—I 2—2 
Dentition : Inc., ===; can; ==; premolars, 
: =e ; molars, 3—3. 
2—2 3-3 
