336 VESPERTILIONIDjE. 



Face flat, hairy throughout except at the extreme end of the 

 nose ; muzzle conical, the nostrils projecting slightly beyond the 

 upper lip, and opening sublaterally, with a shallow hollow between 

 them. Ears scarcely extending to the nostrils when laid forward ; 

 tips rounded, directed outwards ; outer margin of ear-conch con- 

 cave, with a wavy outline in the upper half, then convex, and 

 terminating opposite the base of the tragus in a small lobe folded 

 inwards. Tragus long, narrow, obtusely pointed, inner margin 

 straight, outer with a very small lobule at the base, then convex, 

 becoming straight above. 



Wing-membrane very broad, attached to the base of the outer 

 toe. Fur thick and woolly. Nearly half the interfemoral mem- 

 brane is thickly clad with hair above, backs of toes the same. 

 Dentition as in V. murimts, the second upper premolar minute. 



Colour of fur above fawn-colour to golden brown, below paler 

 and whitish. Some specimens are tinted with rusty red. The 

 dorsal hairs have sometimes the basal third dark brown. The 

 membranes (including the ears) are orange with the exception of 

 black triangular areas between the third and fourth, and fourth 

 and fifth fingers, and inside the fifth, the fingers themselves and 

 the membrane close to them being orange, as in Cerivoula picta. 

 The black triangular areas are sometimes dotted and streaked with 

 orange. 



Dimensions. Head and body 2'4 inches, tail 1*9, ear from crown 

 0-55, forearm 1-9. 



Distribution. Himalayas near Mussoorie up to 5500 feet, Nepal, 

 Sikhim, Assam, Khasi hills, Bengal (Calcutta, Purneah, Chybassa), 

 and China. 



V. dobsoni of Anderson appears to me to be founded on a very 

 large individual of V.formosus with the forearm 2*15 inches long. 



211. Vespertilio mystacinus. The ivhislcered Bat. 



Vespertilio mystacinus, Leisler, Kuhl, Deutsche Flederm. p. 58 (1817) ; 



Dobson, Mon. As. Chir. p. 133 ; id. Cat. Chir. B. M. p. 314 ; 



Scully, J. A. S. S. Ivi, pt. 2, p. 254. 

 Vespertilio siligorensis (and V. darjelingensis ?), Hodgson, Horsf. 



A. M. N. H. (2) xvi, p. 102 (1855) ; Jerdon, Mam. pp. 44, 45. ' 



Crown slightly raised above the face, which is covered with long 

 hairs throughout down to the edge of the upper lip ; muzzle narrow. 

 Ears, when laid forward, extending beyond the end of the nose, 

 tips rounded; upper half of outer margin of ear-conch deeply 

 concave with a wavy outline, lower half abruptly convex, with a 

 distinct small lobe at the base. Tragus attenuate above and 

 subacutely pointed; inner margin straight; outer with a small 

 lobule at the base, then sloping outwards to the broadest part of 

 the tragus, opposite about a quarter the height of the inner margin, 

 thence, after a brief convexity, sloping upwards and inwards to the 

 end. 



Wings from the base of the toes. A slight projection from 



