Bais of the Genera Nyctalus, Tylonycteris, &c. 225 



absence of granulation from the ventral surfaces of these 

 two segments, &c. 



Prof. Kraepeliu states (Mt. Mus. Hamburg, xxx. p. 131, 

 1913) that he has examined a very young example oi C.laneus 

 from Coimbatore (Indian Museum Coll.). This specimen is 

 the first one of the genus to be recorded from India, and 

 obviously belongs to the same species as that which is 

 described above as new, for it comes from the same locality. 

 For the reasons already given, however, I think that it is 

 not (7. laneus, Karsch. With the exception of that sent by 

 Mr. Bainbi'igge Fletcher, there is only one specimen of the 

 geuus in the British Museum Collection, and, unfortunately, 

 it is not known where it was collected. This specimen is the 

 type of Pocock's C. cinctipes — a species now considered to be 

 identical with C. laneus. If the specimens of Charmus from 

 Coimbatore are really C. laneus, Pocock^s species should be 

 resuscitated, for it certainly does not belong to the same 

 species. 



XVII. — On Bats of the Genera Nyctalus, Tylonycteris, and 

 Pipistrellus. By Oldfield Thomas. 



(Published by permission of the Trustees of the British Museum.) 



Kycialus joffrei, sp. n. 



A small species, with short tragus and small p^. 



ISize about as in N. leisleri, smaller than in N. stenopterus. 

 General build suggesting a large Pipistrel rather than a 

 Noctule, but the pioportions ol: the digits quite as in Nyctalus. 

 Ears short, broad, rounded, their substance unusually fleshy ; 

 inner ujargin convex, tip broadly rounded, outer margin con- 

 vex, scarcely flattened above, antitragal lobule little developed. 

 Tragus very short, expanded above, its inner margin concave, 

 shorter than its greatest breadth above ; outer margin con- 

 vex, with the usual triangular basal lobe. Tip of fourth 

 metacarpal reaching to the middle of the short first phalanx 

 of the fifth finger. Wings to the ankle just beyond opposite 

 the base of the calcar. Tail-tip projecting. Penis without 

 bone, its prepuce thinly haired, separated into two cushions 

 by a Y-shaped groove. 



Colour uniform pale brown above and belovv. 



Skull of a somewhat different shape from that of other 

 species of the genus. The muzzle shorter, broader, with 



