34 SCOTOPHILINvE. 



abbreviated and blunt than those of the next group. They are the most 

 numerous and diffused of all Indian bats. 



Gen. SCOTOPHILUS, Leach. 

 Char. Upper incisors usually 4 ; molars or ; mem- 



O 1) 



branes attached to the foot close to the base of the toes ; ears small, 

 ovoid, rounded at the tip ; tragus short, rounded. 



35. Scotophilus serotinus. 



Vespertilio apud SCHREBER. V. noctula, GEOFFROY, Ann. Mus. VIII. 

 t. 17 and 18. BLYTH, Cat. 100. 



THE SILKY BAT. 



Descr. Ears distant, ovately triangular, much shorter than the head ; 

 tragus short, semicordate ; muzzle somewhat denuded ; fur deep bay or 

 chesnut-brown above, somewhat fulvus-gray beneath ; hairs of the back 



long and silky. Molars . 



5 5 



Length, head and body, 2f to 2f inches; extent 13 ; tail 2 ; fore- 

 arm nearly 2 ; ears |ths. 



This European bat has been killed in the Himalayas. Hutton tells 

 me that he procured it on the Tyne range beyond Mussoorie rare. 



36. Scotophilus Leisleri. 



Vespertilio apud KUHL. V. dasycarpus, LEISLER. BLYTH, Cat. 102. 

 THE HAIRY-ARMED BAT. 



Descr. Ears short, oval, triangular ; tragus short, rounded at the 

 tip ; membrane attached to the base of the outer toe ; all toes short ; 



membrane over the arm very hairy ; some cross lines of hairs on the 



4 4. 



interfemoral membrane ; molars in adults ; fur long, deep fus- 



5 5 



cous-brown at base, chesnut at the tip ; beneath, grayish-brown. 



Length, head and body, 2J inches ; tail 1 J ; extent 11 J ; forearm 1J. 

 This bat is said by Hutton to be common in valleys of the Tyne range. 



37. Scotophilus pachyomus. 

 TOMES, P. Z. S. 1857, 50. 



THE THICK-MUZZLED BAT. 

 Descr. Muzzle rounded, obtuse ; ears ovoid ; tragus short, of nearly 



