712 CAl'T. T. HUTTON ON HIMALAYAN BATS. [June 4, 



One of these flew into a room at Jeripanee, below Mussooree, at- 

 tracted by the lights, on the 25th July, at about 9 o'clock. Instead 

 of soaring round the room towards the ceiling, as Bats generally do, 

 it kept low down, passing under the tables and chairs, a"s if afraid to 

 emerge into the broad glare of the lamps. This likewise is the mode 

 of flight when searching for insects in the open fields, where it 

 skims closely and somewhat leisurely over the surface of the crops 

 and grass. 



[Type in coll. India Museum, London. — F. M.] 



24. Murina grisea, Hutton, n. sp. 



This species was taken at Jeripanee at an elevation of 5500 feet ; 

 and as yet I have only seen this one specimen. 



Carpus l T 6 ^in.; tibia T 6 ^ in. ; ear^hi. ; nose to tail 2 in. ; tail 

 1 in. ; total length 3 in. ; expanse of wings rather more than 9 in. ; 

 foot in the wing to the base of the toe, in the interfemoral to the 

 ankle ; tip of tail slightly exserted beyond the membrane ; nostrils 

 subtubular and divergent, giving the nose a notched appearance ; tip 

 of tail exserted ; feet externally hairy ; interfemoral hairy within and 

 without ; ears rather small, obtusely pointed, shaped as in Rhino- 

 lophus ; colour above grey mouse-brown, beneath paler grey. 



[Type in coll. India Museum, London. — F. M.] 



Genus Megaderma. 



Generic characters. — Ears very large, and united by their inner 

 margins over the forehead, as in Plecotus ; wings and interfemoral 

 membranes large ; mouth suctorial ; on the extremity of the muzzle 

 above is a thin saucer-shaped transverse membrane, in which are the 

 nostrils ; out of and behind this arises a broad membrane or leaflet ; 

 tragus narrow, falcate, bending outwards, less than a third of the ear ; 

 tail none. 



25. Megaderma lyra. 



Meg. carnatica, Elliot, Cat. Mamm. S. Ind. 



Meg. schistacea, Hodgs. (apud Blyth). 



Meg. lyra, Geoff. An. Mus. ; J. A. S. B. xi. & xii. 



Hab. India generally, nearly to the Siwaliks in the north-west. 



My specimens were procured at Delhi, in the Kootub, and mea- 

 sured as follows: — Carpus 2-A-in.; tibia 1 T 6 ^ in. ; ear lyV in. ; 

 rounded above ; tragus about | the length of the ear, pointed and 

 subfalcate, with a projecting leaflet at its base, which is notched on 

 the inner edge ; ears joined together on the forehead for nearly half 

 their length ; feet in the wing to the base of the outer toe, in the in- 

 terfemoral membrane to the ankle ; fur, on the head, back, humerus, 

 and lower half of the carpus, black ; membranes and ears brownish, 

 naked ; beneath iron-grey ; on the upper surface of the muzzle is a 

 small subquadrate leaflet, somewhat saucer-shaped, in which are the 

 nostrils concealed beneath an overlying lappet of membrane, imme- 

 diately behind which rises an oblong square membrane, with a 



