310 VESPERTILI07^ID/"E. 



structure except the dentitiou. The outer incisors equal to the 

 inner in cross section at the base, but much shorter. Lower in- 

 cisors in a semicircle scarcely overlapping each other. In this bat, 

 as in the noctule, a band of fine short liair passes on the underside 

 behind the forearm to the carpus, hence the English name. 



Colour of fur bright yellowish brown above, light brown below, 

 the basal three fourths of the hairs on both surfaces dark brown. 



Dimensions. Head and body 2*4 inches, tail 1"6, ear from crown 

 0'25, forearm 1-G5. 



Distribution. Euro]ie and the temperate regions of Asia. There 

 are in the British Museum specimens collected by llutton at 

 Mussoorie, whence also the species was recorded by Blyth. It 

 does not appear to have been observed elsewhere in the Himalayas. 



Habits imperfectly known, Blasius saying that this species is a 

 high-flyer and tree-haunter like V. noctula ; whilst Bell in his 

 ' ]3ritish Quadrupeds ' doubts its dwelling in trees, and states that 

 its flight is much less steady and powerful than that of the nodule. 

 It appears early in the evening. 



There is in the British Museum a skin of V. imbricatus, marked 

 Calcutta, and sent by Blyth to the East India Company's Museum. 

 As the species is not mentioned by Blyth, and no specimens 

 collected by him are in the collection at Calcutta, it is doubtful 

 if the specimen above noticed is Indian. The species, which is 

 found in the Malay Peninsula and Java, may be recognized by its 

 comparatively large \\ell-rounded eai's, and its (;rescentie pointed 

 tragus. The forearm measures ]'4. 



183. Vesperugo mordax. The grizzled Bat. 



■? Scotophilus maderaspatauus, Gray, List Mam, B. M. p. 29 (1843), 



no description. 

 Vesperugo mordax, Peters, MB. Akad. Berlin, 1860, p. 402 ; 



Dobson, Ecp. Brit. Assoc. 1880, p. 184; W. Blanf. J. A. S. B. 



Ivii, pt. 2, p. 260. 

 Pipistrellus austenianus, Dobson, P. A. S. B. 1871, p. 213. 

 Vesperugo maunis, Dobson, Mon. As, Chir. p. 99 ; id. Cat. C/iir, 



B. M, p. 218, paitiiu, ^lec Blanivs ; Andn ■^on, Cat, ]>. 127. 



Fig. 94. — Head of Va^jK'nigo mordax. (Dobson, Mon. As. Chir.) 



Ears thick, broad, triangular, rounded off above, extending when 

 laid forward nearly halfway between th{> eye and the nostril ; outer 

 margin straight or concave above, convex and folded back below, 

 dislinctly notched below the base of the tragus, and terminating in 

 a small lobe behind the angle ol' the mouth ; iinier margin straight 

 above, convex below, \A'ith a rounded basal lobe. Tragus broadest 



