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breadth outside third upper molars, 7.3; mandible, 12.8; maxillary tooth row 

 (exclusive of incisors), 6.7; mandibular tooth row (exclusive of incisors), 7. 



Two skins from near Cape York, northern Australia, are almost identical in 

 measurements with the alcoholic specimen of M. blepotis, though the tibiae are 

 perhaps a millimeter or two longer. The fur of these specimens is a uniform 

 color throughout, and is nearest Ridgway's seal brown, with, however, a little less 

 of the reddish tint. Leche (Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1884, p. 53) has recorded 

 under the name Miniopterus schreibersi blepotis, some bats of tins genus from 

 South Australia, and points out a few characters in which he found them to differ 

 from the European species. The forearm measurement he gives as 45 mm. ; that 

 of our two Australian skins is 46 and 46.3 mm. respectively, which is practically 

 that of M. blepotis of Amboiua. For the present, then, the larger Miniopterus of 

 Australia may be considered as this latter species. 



Miniopterus blepotis differs notably from the large Miniopterus of India in its 

 smaller size and the lesser inflation of the anterior portion of the braincase. 

 Although no skins are available for comparison, the color of M. blepotis is said to 

 be darker than that of 21. schreibersii. 



Miniopterus, sp. 



A large Miniopterus from Queensland, in the mounted collection of the Museum, 

 may be a different species from the large form of the east Asian mainland. Its 

 color, which shows no evidence of fading through exposure in the exhibition case, 

 is a dark seal brown above, slightly paler below. The hair is of the same color 

 from tip to base. Ventrally the fur extends upon the wing membrane as far as a 

 line joining the elbow and the knee. No name seems to be applicable to this bat, 

 should it prove distinct, but in the absence of comparable material I prefer not to 

 name it. The following measurements are from the skin as mounted : forearm, 50 ; 

 3d digit, metacarpal, 45 ; 1st phalanx, 11 ; 2d phalanx and tip, 37.5 ; 4th digit, 

 metacarpal, 42 ; 1st phalanx, 9 ; 5th digit, metacarpal, 38 ; 1st phalanx, 13 ; 

 foot, 9.5. 



Miniopterus pusillus Dobson. 



Vespertilio blepotis Teraminck, Monogr. Mammalogie, 1835, vol. 2, p. 212 (part). 

 Miniopteris australis Tomes, Proc. ZooL Soc. London, 1858, p. 125 (part). 

 Miniopterus australis Dobson, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 1871, vol. 40, p. 265. 

 Miniopterus pusillus Dobson, Monogr. Asiat. Cliiropt., 1876, p. 162 ; Cat. Chiropt. 

 Brit. Mu8., 1878, p. 351 ; Bonhote, Novit. Zool., 1902, vol. 9, p. 626. 



Among the bats collected by Mr. Thomas Barbour at Buitenzorg, Java, are six 

 specimens of the smaller Miniopterus in alcohol. Temminck, in describing the 

 Javan M. blepotis, speaks of smaller specimens which he supposes to have been 

 females of the latter. Dobson later described and named the smaller bat, and in 

 his Monograph of the Asiatic Chiroptera, records specimens from the Nicobar 



