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The dental series of the upper jaw when seen from below presents 

 two straight and nearly parallel lines, the space between them being 

 closed across the front opening by the transverse position of the in- 

 cisors. They are so placed as to occupy nearly all the opening. 

 Seen laterally they are nearly vertical ; but when viewed in front, 

 they slope so much inwards that the points of the inner ones nearly 

 touch each other, and thus fill up nearly the whole of the interval 

 between the two canines. The space between them and the canines 

 is very small. The inner ones are rather large and deeply forked ; 

 the outer ones smaller and conical. The canines are short and stout, 

 angular, and somewhat pointed. All the remaining teeth in the 

 upper jaw are of the form common to nearly all the species of Ves- 

 pertilionidas. 



The lower incisors are small, close together, and trilobed ; the 

 canines short and rather stout ; and the three following teeth conical 

 and increasing in size, the one next to the true molars being con- 

 siderably larger than the two others, which are nearly equal. The 

 molars present nothing remarkable in their form. 



The following dimensions have been taken from three specimens 

 in the Paris collection, — one from Charlemont, one from Abbeville, 

 where it was collected by M. Baillon, and the third from a specimen 

 obtained by M. Hollandre at Metz. 



1. 2. 3. 



Length of the head and body . . 2 



of the tail 1 



of the head 



of the ears 



of the tragus 



of the fore-arm 1 



of the longest finger . . 2 



of the fourth finger. ... 2 



of the thumb 



— ■ of the foot and claws . . 



Expanse of wings 10 6 10 9 10 



2. Vespertilio formostjs, Hodgs. * 



V.formosus, Hodgs. Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, iv. p. 700, 1835. 



Kerivoula formosa, Gray, Cat. Mam. Brit. Mus. p. 27, 1843; 

 Cat. Mam. and Birds of Nepaul, presented by B. H. Hodgson, in 

 Brit. Mus. p. 4, 1846. 



Vesp. {Kerivoula) formosa, Horsf. Cat. Mam. Mus. E. Ind. Comp. 

 p. 40, 1851. 



V. rufo-nigerl, Tomes, MSS. 



Mr. Hodgson thus describes this species : — " Entirely of a bright, 

 soft, ruddy yellow, with the digital membranes triangularly indented, 

 blackish. Head conical ; face sharp ; muzzle and lips confidently 

 nudish ; the former anteally grooved, not above ; the outer and 



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