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179. Vesperugo pachyotis. The thick-eared Bat. 



Vesperugo paclivotis, Dobsoji, P. A. S. B. 1871, p. 211 ; id. Mon. As. 

 Chir. p. 101 {id. Cat. Chir. B. M. p. 206 ; Anderson, Cat. p. 126. 



" Ears triaugular above, with rounded tips ; outer side straight 

 without emargination ; lower portion of the ear (from below the 

 level of the tip of the tragus to the termination of the outer 

 margin near the angle of the mouth) very thick and fleshy ; tragus 

 short, expanded above and curved inwaixls. 



" Head flat, muzzle very broad and short, glandular prominences 

 much developed ; immediately behind them a furrow extends from 

 the anterior corner of one eye to that of the other, beyond which the 

 fur of the head does not pass." " AVing-membraue from the base 

 of the toes. Teeth very small ; inner incisors bifid at their ex- 

 tremities, much larger and longer than the outer." 



Colour above dark brown throughout, below a lighter shade of 

 brown. 



Dimensions. Head and body 2*2 inches, tail 1*6, ear (fi'om base 

 of outer margin) 0-55, forearm 1-6. 



Distribution. Only found hitherto in the Khiisi hills, south of 

 Assam. The types, a male and female, in the Indian Museum, 

 Calcutta, are the only specimens hitherto recorded. 



The above description is copied from Dobson, who remarks that 

 the species, which may be recognized by the peculiar thickness of 

 the lower half of the ear-conch, is rather related in the form of the 

 ears and muzzle to V. noctula and its allies, but that the first 

 minute upper premolar, characteristic of those forms, is wanting. 



180. Vesperugo pachypus. The club-footed Bat. 



Vespertilio paclivpus, Temmincl;, Mon. Mamm. n, p. 217, pi. 54, figs. 



4-6 (1835-41'). 

 Scotophilus fulvidus, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xxviii, p. 29.3 (1859) ; id. 



Cat. p. 33. 

 Vesperus pachypus, Dobson, P. A. S. B. 1871, p. 212. 

 Tylonycteris pachypus, Peters, MB. Akad. Berl. 1872, p. 704 : 



Blyth, Mam. Birds Burma, p. 23. 

 Vesperugo pachypus, Dobson, Mon. As. Chir. p. 115 ; id. Cat. Chir. 



B. M. p. 208; Anderson, Cat. p. 126; Thomas, P. Z. S. 1886, 



p. 59. 



Ears short, scarcely extending to halfway between the eye and 

 nostril when laid forward, oval, with broadly rounded tips ; outer 

 margin shghtly convex, with a shallow but distinct emargination 

 below the base of the tragus, and terminating in a convex lobe 

 behind the angle of the mouth ; inner margin straight in the 

 middle, convex above, and with a well rounded basal lobe. Tragus 

 short, widest opposite the base of the inner margin, which is 

 nearly straight, tip rounded, outer margin convex and having a 

 small lobe at the base. 



Crown of head very flat, muzzle broad, nostrils directed somewhat 



