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regular outline, and without trace of external basal lobe. In this 

 respect they differ from those of the group above alluded to ; bul 

 in the form of the tragus there is but s slight difference. It is 



Straight, narrow, ami pointed, but not so long; nor is the tip so 

 acute. 



The organs of flight are rather broad in relation to their length, 

 and are furnished with a long and strong thumb having B verv short 

 basal phalange enclosed in a narrow piece of membrane extending 

 from its joint along the upper surface of the index finger. Its se- 

 cond phalange is long, as in V. formosus, J', gmarffinatua, &c. The 

 wing-membranes are said to extend the whole length of the foot, 

 quite to the claws, which they certainly do in the specimen in the 

 British Museum ; but in a specimen in my own collection they do 

 not reach to the claws ; scarcely further than to the middle of the 

 toes *. This I have been able to ascertain by softening the speci- 

 men ; but one in spirit is required to determine this point with ac- 

 curacy. The feet themselves are rather long, and have the toes of 

 two-thirds their entire length. 



The tail is a little longer in relation to the size of the animal than 

 it is in the species of the group with which I have found it most 

 nearly allied, i. e. the group containing the before-instanced species, 

 /'. formosus, &c. 



All the membranes are somewhat translucent ; those of the wings 

 are rather distinctly veined ; and near to the sides of the body and 

 legs they are marked with dotted lines, as is also conspicuously the 

 case with the interfemoral membrane. The ears are faintly marked 

 with small dots, but not nearly so much so as in Kerivoula. 



The fur of the head extends uninterruptedly to near the end of the 

 nose, in precisely the same manner as it does in V. emarginatu* ; and 

 there is a similar naked space around the eye. All the upper sur- 

 face of the interfemoral membrane is hairy, and the upper surface 

 of the wing-membranes near to the body ; but everywhere else the 

 membranes are naked. On the back the fur is tricoloure-d ; on the 

 under parts it is bicoloured. 



In general form the cranium very much resembles that of /'. 

 emnrffinatus ; and in form and relative proportion the teeth are also 

 similar, but differ in numbering one more premolar in the upper jaw, 

 and one less in the lower. Their number may be thus stated : 



r 1— 2 r, 1 — 1 T> 2—2 Xf„l 3— 3 "' 



In. -g-; Can. — ; Trem. — ; Mol. 5^=^ 



Those of the upper jaw are arranged id two Straight lines, which are 

 oearly parallel ; and across the front opening of the>e the incisors 

 are placed iii pairs, of nearly uniform size, close together, with a \ei v 

 moderate interval on each side between them and the canines, and a 

 moderate central opening. They are simple in form, with their cutting 

 edges -Mineu hat flattened. The canines are short ami stout, somewhat 



• This ipecimen is one I purchased with other Indian mswm s h , which formed 

 part of the collection made l>> Ctpt. BojS. 



No. CCCLXX. 1'iuh kdingi 01 1 in. Zoological Bo< ii pi 



