BATS. 239 



AURiTUS, or Long-eared Bat, has the same, but a slightly more extended range, reaching into North 

 Africa, and is also found in the Caucasus, Georgia, &c. 



In the Leaf-bearing Bats, the same genera are never found in both the Old and New "Worlds. 

 In this section the same genera sometimes occvir in both, but the same species never. The covmtries 

 most nuracrou.slj' supplied with species are India and the Malayan districts in the Old World, and 

 Brazil in the New. The range is indeed very much the same as that of the leaf-nosed Bats, 

 except that they have a wider and more northerly range; and that, unlike them, they occur 

 in North America. A good many are found in Australia. These are chiefly of the form of the 

 Eurojjcan Pipistrelle. Mr. Tomes remarks, ap-opon to Nyctophims rNicoi.oR, that all the species of , 

 Bats wliich he had seen from Van Dieman's Land, " differ remarkably from those of the mainland, 

 in having all the fur everywhere short and cottony, and perfectly devoid of lustre and imi-coloured." 

 He says elsewhere, however, that " he has often been surprised that Australia does not furnish a 

 single fonn among the Bats that is not common to nearly all the world besides ; indeed many of 

 the species are found in the Indian islands, and, curiously enough, in China." This, however, 

 chiefl}' applies to typical form ; it indeed also applies to a few of the actual species, but the majority 

 of those found in Australia are limited to that country. One or two peculiar species occur in 

 New Zealand. None in either this or last section are recorded from Madagascar ; but this may be 

 owing to deficieut information. There are several oceanic species, and the Nicobar Islands, which 

 possess peculiar species both of the frugivorous and leaf-nosed Bats, have an endemic sj)ecies of this 

 group also. Of Bats in general, the Novara Expedition* has produced no fewer than four new 

 endemic species from these islands alone. Considerable variety exists in the size and colour of 

 some of the Indian species of Bats, as hapj)ens in the Squirrels and some other mammals, those 

 which inhabit South India and Ceylon being smaller and darker in colour than those living more 

 to the northward, and species intemiediate in size and colour being found at intermediate localities. 

 This does not hold with all, however, and I am not aware that it extends beyond the territory 

 of the Indian region. 



* "Die AusbeutederOestcrreichisohenNaturforscber gelung Sr. Majcstat Fregatte Novara," von D. L. J. 

 an Saugethicren und Reptilien wahrend der Weltumse- Fitzinger, 1861. 



