Mr. J. Scully on sone Wonnmeall from Kandahar. 223 
neighbourhood of Kandahar, in Southern Afghanistan. As 
nothing has to my knowledge been published about the mam- 
mals of that country since Captain Hutton’s “ Rough Notes on 
the Zoology of Candahar,” in the ‘ Journal of the Asiatic Society 
of Bengal’ for 1845, I have thought it would be of interest to 
give a notice of the species which Colonel Swinhoe has ob- 
tained, and which he has presented to the British Museum. 
There has been so much discussion about Kandahar lately, 
that the position of the place will doubtless be well known to 
whoever may read these notes; the elevation of the city is 
about 3500 feet above sea-level. 
Vesperugo Kuhlit (Natt.). 
Pipistrellus lepidus, Blyth, J, A. 8. B. xiv. p. 340 (1845). 
Pipistrellus leucotis, Dobson, J. A. 8, B. xli. pt. 2, p. 222 (1872). 
Male, city of Kandahar, March. 
Head and body 1°75 inch, tail 1:43, head 0°6, ear 0:54, 
tragus 0°24, forearm 1°35, thumb 0°24, third finger 2°3, fifth 
finger 1°7, tibia 0:5, foot and claws 0:27, caleaneum 0°53. 
Upper inner incisors long and pointed, the outer incisor less 
than a fourth of the length of the inner ones; lower incisors 
with trifid crowns ; postcalcaneal lobe large. 
This specimen agrees well with Blyth’s description of P. 
lepidus and Dobson’s account of V. leucot’s. 1 follow the 
latter author im considering this pale desert form only a variety 
of V. Kuhhii; but 1 would mention that, if it is to be separated 
from V. Kuhl of Southern Europe, it must bear Blyth’s title 
of lepidus, which has precedence by twenty-seven years over 
the term leucotis. 
The following is Captain Hutton’s account of the habits of 
this bat in Kandahar :—“ This species is very common, and 
may be seen from February till towards the end of October, 
flitting about in crowds in the twilight hours of evening ; they 
shelter during the day in holes of houses, walls, and rocks.” 
Erinaceus megalotis, Blyth. 
A hedgehog obtained at Kandahar in April agrees well 
with Blyth’s and Hutton’s description of the typical examples 
originally sent by Captain Hutton from that country. In the 
specimen before me, which is fully adult, there is no nude 
space on the vertex; the spines have three isabelline bands, 
situated at the base, middle, and tip, and two black bands, 
one above the basal pale band and one subterminal. ‘The 
upper canine has two roots, the first premolar only one; and 
the second premolar has two, one external and one internal. 
I mention this, as Dr. Anderson notes (J. A. S. B, i, 1878, 
