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two spots, just above the wing-membrane, behind each shoulder. 

 In front of each shoulder is the termination of a broad white 

 V-shaped band extending to the abdomen ; there is another white 

 band forming a collar commencing beneath each ear and running 

 forward to the chin. Remainder of the lower parts brown. The 

 size of the white patches varies, being larger in males ; in females 

 the markings are much less distinct. The limbs and digits and a 

 variable portion of the membranes are sometimes tawny red. 



Dimensions. Head and body 3'1 inches, tail 2-5, ear from crown 

 0-55, forearm 2-3. 



Distribution. The Eastern Himalayas, Khasi hills, and some of 

 the ranges of Upper Burma and Yunnan. According to Jerdon, 

 this bat inhabits warm valleys near Darjiling, whilst Hodgson's 

 Nycticejus nivicolus, which an examination of Hodgson's drawings 

 in the British Museum shows to be the same, is said to be from 

 the northern region of the Sikhim Himalaya near the snows. 

 Jerdon's account is doubtless correct ; some of Hodgson's speci- 

 mens from the interior of the hills, although obtained near high 

 mountains, were from the deep valleys at low elevations above the 



Genus HARPYIOCEPHALUS, Gray (1842). 

 Syn. Murina, Gray (1842). 



Muzzle elongate, but varying in breadth, crown of the head 

 scarcely raised above the face-line Nostrils prominent, tubular, 

 produced beyond the upper lip, with a circular orifice opening more 



Fig. 101. Skull of Harpyiocephalus cyclotis, X 2. (Dobson, Mon. As. Chir.) 



or less laterally, the outer margin cleft ; end of the nose between 

 the nostrils concave. Ears thin, generally covered with glandular 

 papillae ; tragus long, attenuate towards the tip, and inclined out- 

 wards. Thumb very large, with a large strongly curved claw. 

 Wings broad, interfemoral membrane much covered with hair 

 above. 



Dentition : i. ~, c. ~ v pm. |=J, m. |~. Upper incisors on 

 each side parallel and stout ; posterior upper molar small, some- 

 times absent in the adult. 



