304 VESPERTILIONID.i;. 



Dimensions of a male from Kashmir. Head and body 2*85 inches, 

 tail 2, ear from crown 0*5, forearm 2-1. 



Distribution. Palsearctic and Xearctic regions, with parts of the 

 Neotropical and Oriental. This bat seems to be common in 

 Kashmir, and was found in Assam by Col. Godwin-Austen. Blyth, 

 too, identified it amongst the bats obtained near Mussoorie by 

 Hutton. The variety V. andersoni was obtained in Yunnan. 



Habits. The name of this bat indicates one of its characteristic 

 traits, that of appearing late in the evening. It like^^"ise does not 

 come out of its winter sleep until the spring is well advanced. 

 According to Blasius it does not fly about on cold, wet, and windy 

 nights, but it is to be seen, in Europe, on warm summer evenings 

 about woods and gardens. It is frequently found in hollow trees 

 in the day, and remains as a rule solitary or in small numbers even 

 in winter. Its flight is rather slow and the action of its wings 

 fluttering; its turns are less actively made than those of its allies 

 of the genus Vespenuio generally. Asa rule it has only one young 

 at a time. 



175. Vesperugo nasutus. The Sind Bat. 



Vespenigo uasutus, Dohson, J. A. S. B. xlvi, pt. 2, p. 311 (1877) ; 

 id. Cat. Chir. B. M. p. 200 ; Anderson, Cat. p. 125. 



Ears shorter than the head, triangular, the tips rounded ; 

 inner margin of each commencing above the eye, not forming a 

 distinct rounded lobe at the base, but straight almost from the base 

 to the tip of the ear, outer margin also straight. Tragus broadest 

 below tlie middle of the inner margin, the outer margin convex 

 with an ill-defined lobe near the base, inner margin slightly con- 

 cave, tip subacutely pointed. 



Head flat, muzzle conical, the extremity projecting considerably 

 beyond the lox^er lip in front, nostrils opening sublaterally. No 

 postcalcaneal lobe. Only the tip of the tail is free. Fur short, the 

 face nearly naked in front of the eyes. 



Upper inner incisors moderately long and unicuspidate, outer 

 pair very short ; lower incisors trifid, crowded, longest across the 

 direction of the jaws. First lower premolar not half as long as 

 the second. 



Colour above pale j^ellowish l)i'own ; beneath pale buif, almost 

 white ; membranes light brown, traversed by numerous ^vhite 

 reticulations. 



Dimensions. Head and body IvS inches, tail 1*7, ear (from base 

 of outer margin) 0-6, forearm 1'45. 



Distribution. The only specimen known was obtained by myself 

 in Upper Sind. 1 belie\ e that the type of the present species was 

 procured a little east of Kohri. The locality originally assigned, 

 Nhikarpur, was that of some other specimens in the same collection. 



The above description is taken from that by Dobson. 



