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Skull : — Greatest length, 23 5 mm. ; basilar length, 16 ; greatest breadth, 

 12'5 ; least interorbital breadth, 3 ; breadth of braincase, 9"5 ; upper tooth 

 row, including canine, 9. 



Sab : Persia. Type from Shiraz, alt. 5,200'. 



Type: —Adult, $ B. M. No. 20. 2. 9. 3. Original number 920. Collect- 

 ed 21st June 1919 by Col. J. E. B. Hotson and presented by the Bombay 

 Natural History Society to the British Museum. 



The eight immature specimens are a paler shade of the same general 

 colour as the adult. 



The nose-leaf from dry skin measured 12mm. by 7*5 



2. PlPISTKELLCTS KUHLI LEPIDTJS, Blyth. 



Kandahar Pipistrel. 



1845. Pipistrellus lepidus, Blyth, J. A. S. B., xiv, p. 340. 



14 2 . 



The forearm of these naeasures 33-34mm. 



The large proportion of females to males in collections of Pipistrels is 

 remarkable. Buxton obtained one male to sixteen females in a series of 

 P. kuhli in Amara. 



3, Pipistrellus mimus glaucillus, "VVrought-^n. 

 Northern Dwarf Pipistrel. 



1912. Pipistrellus mimus glaucillus, Wroughton, J. B. N. H. ^., xxi., 

 p. 769. c?12; $ 81 ; in al. 6. 



Ten from Bagh Mizathahami, Shiraz, the rest from Shiraz. 



The forearm of these is about 31mm. 



P. mimus is generally distributed throughout India and is smaller and 

 darker than P. kuhli, P. m. glaucillus is a paler slightly larger sub-species. 

 The type locality is Multan, Punjab ; it also occurs in Sind. 



4. Myotis myotis kisorids, Subsp. no v. 

 The Dove-grey Mouse-eared Bat. 



c?3; $1. 



Much resembles, but is paler than Myotis m. omari, Thomas. Also differs 

 from M. M. omari in the absence of the general washing of cream buff on 

 the back, underparts, and wing filaments, which on the back of M. m. riso- 

 rius is replaced by a pale purplish washing. In the underparts the creamy 

 buff tips to the hairs in M. m. omari are in these specimens white, giving to 

 the belly a much whiter appearance. Forearm measurements are on an 

 average slightly longer than those oi M. m. omari. 



Considerably paler and slightly longer in the forearm than either M. 

 myotis from Europe or M. blythi from North India. 



Size large, hairs on the back soft, and long (10mm). 



Greneral colour above " drab grey ", slightly darker towards the tail, bases 

 of hairs " slate colour ", tips pale purplish. Below bases of hairs " clove 

 brown ". tips of hairs white, clove brown of bases faintly showing through 

 the white tips. Limbs and wing filaments " drab ". Line of demarcation 

 of colour upper and underparts clearly defined. 



Measurements of the type : forearm 62mm.; head and body (in flesh) 

 76mm. tail, 62 ; hindfoot, 14; ear, 26. 



Skull : greatest length, 24mm ; basilar length, 18-5 ; greatest breadth 

 (broken) 14-5 : interorbital breadth, 5-5 ; breadth of brain-case, 10 ; 

 upper tooth row, including canine, 9. 



jidl,^ — Persia. Type from Shiraz, alt. 5,200', three more specimens from 

 the same locality. 



