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Andersen and De Winton give the rlistribution as Senegal, Algeria, 

 Tunisia, S. Syria and Zanzibar, with a sub-species A. tridens murraiana 

 from Karachi and Bushire. 



3. PiPISTRELLUS KUHLI, Kuhl. 



1819. Vespertilio kuhlii, Kuhl. Ann. Wett. Ges. Nat. IV., p. 199. 

 White bordered Pipistrel Bat. 



Id 16$ 1 Amara Buxton 29-1-18—7-6-18. 



2d Baghdad „ 8-10-17. 



1 Shushter, S. Persia Bailey. 21-1-18, alt. 500 ft. 



2 Busra Cox-Cheesman June, 1916. 



2 Sheikh Saad Ingoldby 20-7-16 & 21-7-16, 



2 Busra Christy June, lyl8, in al, 



The commonest bat of the lower Tigris. 



Although several almost black forms appear in the series, this is usually 

 a small dark brown bat, with short hair and ears and a pale border to the 

 wing filament. Buxton remarks, plentiful in Amara and the only bat that 

 appears in winter on warm nights, and all females were pregnant in 

 March. 



Ingoldby saw them chasing insects round the lights of river steamers 

 near Sheikhs Saad, and I found it in numbers in the Busra houses. 



Miller gives the distribution as Mediterranean region eastward into 

 Asia. It has been recorded by the B. N. H. S. Mammal Survey from Sind. 



4. PiPisTKELLus coxi, Thos. 



1919. Pipistrellm coxi, Thomas, J. B. N. H. S., Vol. XXVI, No. 3, 

 p. 747. 



Cox's Pipistrel Bat. 



1. Type. Beit Mahommad. Amara, Cox-Cheesman. 20-3-18. 

 1. Makina, Busra. Christy 20-3-18. 



A small bat with light grey back, white belly and black ears and muzzle. 

 The type was caught in the house of Sheikh Mahommad, in the vicinity 

 of marshes on the Chahala canal. The Makina specimen in the Mess of 

 No. 33 B. G. Hospital. 



It has been named by Mr. Oldfield Thomas after Major-Gen. Sir 

 P. Z. Cox . 



5. Eptusicus, Species. 



Serotine Bat, spec. 



1. Amara. Cox-Cheesman, 16-3-18. 



A single specimen of a bat was collected in Amara, much resembling 

 P. kuhlii in size, but the forearm is longer, colour paler and white border 

 is missing. In the absence of the skull definite determination is not 

 possible until more specimens are forthcoming. It is probably nearly 

 allied to Eptesicus matschiei pellucens — several of which were obtained by 

 Woosnam in Ahwaz. 



6. Eptesicxjs hingstoni, Thos. 



1919. Epteeicus hingstoni, Thomas. J. B. N. H. S., Vol. XXVI, No. 3, 

 p. 745. 



Hingston's Serotine Bat. 



1. Type. Baghdad. Hingston, 1-5-17. 



1. Busra. Cox-Cheesman, 6-8-18. 



1. Khazimain, Baghdad. „ „ ^ll^'}^: , 



1 S . Busra. Wall., 15-1-17. M. 16 in al. 

 Of the two Busra specimens only the skulls have been examined 



