522 MR. OLDFIELD THOMAS ON [ Dee. 12, 
nearly or quite as long as usual, not shortened as in the 
N. Indian blythi. But the colour is very different, being that 
characteristic of specimens from desert-regions. General colour 
above uniform pale “ wood-brown,” the basal halves of the hairs 
smoky brown, succeeded by a broad ring of glossy whitish sandy 
and a fine pale brown point. Under surface broadly washed with 
“ cream-buff.” Membranes and ears also much paler brown than 
in myotis. 
Teeth rather smaller than those of true myotis, larger than 
those of blythi. 
Measurements of the type :— 
Forearm 60 mm. 
Head and body (in flesh) 75; tail 61; ear 26. 
Skull—ereatest length 22:2; breadth of brain-case 9-9; upper 
tooth-row from front of canine 9°5; front of lower canine to back 
of m, 10:1. 
Hab. Persia; type from Derbend. Alt. 6500’. 
Type. Adult male. B.M. No. 5,10.4.14. Original number 42. 
Collected 14 May, 1905. 
It is quite natural to find a desert-coloured form of the common 
M. myotis inhabiting Persia. Mr. Witherby’s specimen is very 
similar to the two presented by Col. Bailward. 
Mr. Miller has shown* that the Indian Vespertilio blytht Tomes 
is definably different from the European J. myotis, to which 
Dobson had assigned it. I may further note that Dobson's 
V. africanus f is clearly the same as IZ, blythi, the collection from 
which the type came having been wrongly labelled as from the 
Gaboon, when it really was from N. India. Dobson’s mistake 
was therefore quite excusable. 
6. NroMys FODIENS Schr. 
3g. 53. 25 miles N. of Erzeroum. 7000’. 
“Caught by a brook in the mountains. Was swimming and 
diving with two others.’—f. B. W. 
7. ERINACEUS EUROPZUS L. 
56. 9. Tortoum R., N. of Hrzeroum. 4000’. 
Probably belonging to the form recognised by Barrett-Hamilton 
as H. e. concolor Mart. 
8. CANIS AUREUS L. 
3d. 12. Shus, near Dizful, Arabistan. 
9. VULPES VULPES FLAVESCENS Gray. 
6.7. Bunde Kil, Karun R. 250’. 
10. Purorius nivauis L. 
d. 61. Baibort. 7000’. 
* P. Biol. Soc. Wash. xiii. p. 155 (1900). 
+ Cat. Chir. B.M. p. 310. 
