326 VESPEKTILIONID^. 



middle. Tragus moderately long, slender, attenuated, broadest 

 opposite the base of the inner margin, whence the outer margin 

 slopes rapidly downwards and inwards to the small basal lobe, and 

 gently upwards to the subacutely pointed tip ; inner margin straight 

 or very slightly convex throughout. 



Wings from the base of the toes. 

 The fur is long, soft, and silky, and 

 extends over the whole tipper surface of 

 the interfemoral membrane, the legs, and 

 the wing-membrane as far as beyond a 

 line drawn from the middle of the 

 hurnerus to the outer toe, being very 

 dense upon the calcanea and backs of the 

 feet. Beneath, the interfemoral mem- 

 brane bears only a few short scattered 



YT' J n rj of^-conch thinly 



clad with short fane hair. 



Outer upper incisors shorter than the 

 inner; upper premolars subequal, third upper molar deciduous, 

 often wanting. All the teeth very thick and strong, with blunt 

 cusps. 



Colour of fur above brownish grey with a ferruginous tinge, 

 hairs with white tips being intermixed on the head, neck, and 

 shoulders ; hair of lower back, interfemoral and wing-membranes 

 deep bay. Lower surface of body grey. 



Dimensions. Head and body 2'5 inches, tail 2, forearm 2, ear 

 outside from head 0-4. 



Distribution. Found at Darjiling and on the Khasi hills, also in 

 Sumatra, Java, and Amboyna. A specimen in the British Museum 

 labelled Malabar Coast may be from the hill-range of the Western 

 G-hats. Probably this handsome bat is widely distributed in the 

 hill-tracts of India and Burma. 



Habits. Nothing is known except that fragments of the elytra 

 of beetles have been found in the stomach, and that the teeth 

 appear well suited for crushing the hard cases of Coleoptera. 

 Dobson suggests that H. harpy ia may feed on beetles with very 

 solid wing-cases. 



201. Harpyiocephalus cyclotis. The round-eared tube-nosed Bat. 



Murina suilla, Blyth, Cat. p. 34 ; Jerdon, Mam. p. 41 ; nee Vespertilio 



suillus, Temm. 

 Murina cyclotis, Dobson, P. A. 8. B. 1872, p. 210 ; id. J. A. S. B. 



xlii, pt. 2, pi. xiv, fiff. 14. 

 Harpiocephalus cyclotis, Dubson, Mon. As. Chir. p. 158 ; id. Cat. 



Chir. B. M. p. 282 ; Anderson, Cat. p. 139. 



Muzzle thick. Ears almost circular, margins convex throughout ; 

 there is a small blunt projection to the basal lobe of the inner 

 margin, very different from the pointed spur of H. leucogaster. 

 Tragus narrow at the base, then broader, being widest just above 



