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Although I have treated the Chinese specimens as varieties oi' t he 

 Indian species, I hold it by no mean- proved that uiv fir.-t impres* 

 sion was doI the cornet one. The differences may be thus sum- 

 marily stated : — l . The ears of the ( ihinese example* are more deeply 

 hollowed out exteriorly. 2. The tragus is more acate. '■>. The 



tip of the tail is free. In the Indian specimens the ear-; are 

 strongly emarginate, the tragus is sub-acute at the tip,' and the tail 

 wholly enclosed in the membrane. ; at lea-l it ifl BO in the specimen 



in spirit. The great difference in colour may perhaps be due to the 

 influence of climate. 



Without a greater number of examples for examination, and i 



dally without an investigation of their crania and dentition, it is 



difficult to decide wit h certainty whether this is merely a remarkable 

 variety, or a distinct species. Should it however prove to l>e distinct, 

 I propose tor it the name I at firs! made age of to designate it, viz. 

 Vesp. rufo-niger. 



3. Vespkrtilio rufo-pictus, Waterh. 



Vesp. ru/o-pictw, Waterh. P. Z. S. pt. 13. p. 8, 18 15. 



Kerwoula ru/ihpicta, Gray, Zool. Voy. Samar. no. 5, 18-19. 



The original specimen from which Mr. Waterhouse took his de- 

 scription having passed into my hands at the dispersion of the Mu- 

 seum of the Zoological Society, I have been enabled to examine if 

 attentively, and to compare it with Mr. Hodgson's specimen of V. 

 forniosus in the British Museum, from which it at first sight appears 

 to differ only in being a little larger. On more careful examination 

 it proves to be quite an immature individual, so that if full-grown it 

 would probably differ considerably in size from that species. Again, 

 the number of the teeth appears to be different — different at least from 

 the account given by Mr. Hodgson of the dentition of V.formotu*. 

 He says, "Teeth ^=- 2 , j^j, g—fr" I can only detect r ~" % molars in 

 the specimen of V. rwfo-pictus, of which two on each side, above 

 and below, are false molars. 



The face is rather long and somewhat obtuse, but not much broader 

 laterally than it is thick in a vertical direction ; the top of the head 

 very little elevated ; the nostrils small and near together, with the 

 space between them slightly depressed rather than emarginate. The 

 glands of the upper lip do not approach very closely to the edge of 

 the latter, but pass backwards over the eyes almost to the front mar- 

 gins of the ears, and have a central longitudinal depression along the 

 face, up the middle of which is a narrow raised ridge, producing, to 

 use the words of Mr. Waterhouse, "two longitudinal grooi 

 The ears arc very similarly shaped to those of r. /bra Miff, but I 

 think a little less emarginate. The b ■ distincl tooth or 



lobe at its outer margin, close to the base, above which is a consider- 

 able indentation, succeeded by an obtuse angle, from which it pa 

 in a straight line to the tip, which is tolerably acute. The inner 

 margin is nearly straight. Moth the car- and tragus, when ex- 

 amined by transmitted tight, appear to be glandular in structu] 



