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SCIENTIFIC RESULTS FROM THE MAMMAL SURVEY. 



Note by the Editors. 



The Editors' attention has been called to the fact that although 

 Mr. Wroughton's description of Dremomys lohriak hhotia was re- 

 ceived and passed for press long before Mr. Thomas's synopsis of 

 the Indian species of Dremomys, the latter was by accidental error 

 published in the Journal (Vol. XXIV, No. 3, p. 417-418) than 

 the former (1. c. p. 425-426), thus aftecting by page prioritj'- 

 (though not by date) the nominal authorship of the name Ihotia. 



The Editors are advised that if the}^ formally declare this to be 

 a mistake made during publication, independent of the authors 

 concerned, it may be treated as a "typographical error", and may 

 be corrected accordingly by the ascription of the name hhotia to 

 its proper author, Mr. Wroughton. 



No. XIV. 



(A) A NEW Bat of the Genus Mueina from Darjiling. 



By Oldfield Thomas. 



(Fuhlislied hij ijermission of the Trustees of the British Museum.) 



Murina rubex, sp. n. 



A rusty-washed species looking like a small Harpiocephalus. 



Size largest of the Indian species, only equalled by the Japanese 

 M. hilgendorji. Fur thick, close, and woolly ; forearms and thumbs 

 thinly hairy ; hind limbs very thickly hairy, and the interfemoral 

 well clothed ; undersurface of limbs and membranes practically 

 naked. General colour above greyish russet, the fur blackish slaty 

 at base, then greyish buffy with ferruginous tips, the long hairs on 

 the limbs and interfemoral deep ferruginous. Below, the chin and 

 throat are creamy whitish to the bases of the hairs, belly dull buffy 

 with slaty bases. 



Ears wuthout pointed projection at their inner base ; inner margin 

 convex ; tip evenly rounded ; outer margin with a well defined notch 

 or concavity at its upper third, its middle portion convex, with 

 again at base a concavity followed by a basal convexity buried in 

 the fur ; the shape of the ear therefore essentially as in M. hilcjendorfi, 

 Harjnola grisea and Ilarinoce^haltis, not as in the other Indian- 

 species of Murina. The notch at the junction ot the upper and 

 middle thirds particularly well marked and characteristic. 

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