Bats of the Genera Nyctaluf, Tylonycteris, (fcc. 225 



abscuce of {:frauulation from the vciitr.il surfjiccs of these 

 two scf^mcuts, &o. 



Prof. Kraepelin states (Mt. Mas. llainljur^, xxx. p. l.'Jl, 

 1913) that he lias examined a very youiifjj example oi C.laneus 

 from Coimhatore (Indian Museum Coll.). This specimen is 

 the first one of the genus to be recorded from India, and 

 obviously belongs to the same sj)ecies as that which is 

 described above as new, for it comes from the same locality. 

 For the reasons already given, however, I think that it is 

 uot ('. ianeus, Karsch. With the exception of that sent by 

 Mr. Bainbrigge Fletcher, there is only one spcciracn of the 

 genus in the iiritish Museum Collection, and, unfortunately, 

 it is not known where it was collected. This specimen is the 

 type of I'ocock's C. cinclijies — a species now considered to be 

 identical with C. luntns. If the specimens of C/iarnius from 

 Coimbatore are really C. laneus, Pocock's species should be 

 resuscitated, for it certainly tlocs not belong to the same 

 species. 



XVII. — On Bats of the Genera Nyctalu?, Tylonycteris, and 

 Pipistrellus. By Oldfield Thomas. 



(Publisbed by permission of tiie Trustees of the British Museum.) 



Nyctalus joffrei, sp. n. 



A small species, with short tragus and small p^. 



Size ahout as in ^V. leisleri, smaller than in N. stenopteriis. 

 General build suggesting a large Pipistrel rather than a 

 Noctule, but the pioportions of the digits quite as in Xyctalns. 

 Ears short, broad, rounded, their substance unusually tleshy ; 

 inner margin convex, tip broadly rounded, outer margin con- 

 vex, scarcely flattened above, antitragal lobule little developed. 

 Tragus very short, expanded above, its inner margin concave, 

 shorter than its greatest breadth above ; outer margin con- 

 vex, with the usual triangular basal lobe. Tip of fourth 

 metacarpal reaching to the middle of the short first phalan.K 

 of the fifth finger. Wings to the ankle just beyond opposite 

 the base of the calcar. Tail-tip projecting. Penis without 

 bone, its prepuce thinly haired, separated into two cushions 

 by a Y-shaped groove. 



Colour uniform pale brown above and below. 



tSkull of a somewhat different shape from that of other 

 species of the genus. The muzzle shorter, broader, with 



