780 PROnEEDTNOS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vouxxiv. 
uniform dark brown aliove (the exact .shade intermediate between the 
bistre and burnt umber of Ridgwa}^), and a lighter brown (between 
wood brown and cinnamon) beneath. Fur everywhere blackish at 
base. Ears and membranes blackish brown, the wing faintly edged 
with white. 
Skull and teeth. — The skull resembles that of Pipistrellus ahramus 
in general size and form, but the rosti-al poi'tion is very noticeably 
broader and shorter. Audital bullae smaller than in P. ahranius., but 
not difterent in form. 
Teeth as in Pqylstrellus abramus, but more robust. 
Measurements. — External measurements of type: Total length, 78 
mm. (80) ;i head and body, 48 (48); tail, 30 (32); tibia, 12 (ll.<;); foot, 
6.8 (6.H); penis, 9; forearm, 31.6 (32); thumb, .5 (5.4); second digit, 31 
(30); third digit, 52 (55); fourth digit, 47 (51); fifth digit, 40 (42); ear 
from meatus, 11.4 (12); ear from crown, 9 (9); width of ear, 10.6 (10.6); 
tragus (anterior ])order), 3 (4). 
Cranial measurements of type: Greatest length, 12.6 mm. (13);^ 
basal length, 12 (12.2); basilar length, 9 (9.8); zygomatic breadth, 
9 (8.8); least interorbital breadth, 3.6 (3.6); greatest length of l)rain- 
case, 7.8 (8); greatest breadth of braincase above roots of zygomata, 
7 (6.8); mandi))le, 10 (9.8); maxillary toothrow (exclusive of incisors), 
5 (5); mandibular toothrow (exclusive of incisors), 5 (5). 
Specimens examined. — Two (in alcohol), l)oth from the type locality. 
RemarJi's. — Pipistrellus cannortm appears to be a well-marked species 
related more closely to P. ahramus than to any other. It is undoubt- 
edly the bat which Dobson recorded from the Nicobars in the list of 
specimens of Yesperugo ahramits in the collection of the East Indian 
Museum. Probably it is also the species named Ysperugo nicobaricus 
by Fitzinger, but afterwards regarded by Zelebor as V. tenuis. 
Genus MINIOPTERUS Bonaparte. 
MINIOPTERUS PUSILLUS Dobson. 
1876. [Minioptenni !<chreihers)i] var. a Mnuopterus jnisillns Dobson, Monogr. 
Asiat. Chiropt., p. 162 (Nicobar Islands). 
Although the range of this bat is given by Dobson as probably 
including the same countries as that of 3f. sehreibersri, Anderson states 
that the t3^pe specimen in the Indian Museum, Calcutta, was collected 
among the Nicobar Islands by Dr. StoHczka.^ Nothing is known of 
the species beyond the facts that it is apparently common on the Nico- 
bar Islands, and that it has been recorded from the Andamans and 
also from Madras. Dr. Abbott did not meet with it. 
' Measurements in parenthesis are those of an adult female from the type locality. 
^^ Measurements in parenthesis are those of an adult female Pipistrellus ahramus 
from Buitenzorg, Java. 
*Catal. Mamm ind Mus. Calcutta, 1881, p. 146. Thontrh no definite locality is 
given lor the type specunen, filteen others are recorded irom Ivachal Island. 
