1873.] G. E. Dohson— On a new species of Vespertilio. 205 



Mi'st upper premolar nearly equal in size to the second. 

 Maceoglosstjs minimus, pi. XIV, Fig. 11. 



Pteropus minimus, Geoff. Ann. du Mus., xv, p. 97. 



Macroglossus minimus, Temminck, Monogr. de Mammal., I, p. 191. 



Pteropus rostratus, Horsfield, Zool. Researches in Java. 



This species is so well-known, and has been redescribed so carefully by 

 Temminck, that no fui'ther description of it is here necessary. 



It is found in abundance in the deep warm valleys about Darjiling. 

 It extends from India through Burma to the Malay Archipelago. 



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Description of a new species of Vespertilio from the North- 

 western Himalaya, — by G. E. Dob son, B. A., M. B. 



Vespertilio murinoedes, n. sp., PI. XIV, Fig. 12. 



This species is closely allied to V. murinus of Europe, from which, 

 however, it is readily distinguished by the following characters : — 



The general form of the ear is triangular, with narrow rounded tips : 

 the inner margin is very faintly convex, almost straight, in its upper third, 

 and the outer margin is concave beneath the tip, the remaining portion con- 

 vex with a faint concavity opposite the base of the tragus. 



In V. murinus the inner margin of the ear is strongly convex from the 

 base to the tip, the concavity of the outer margin beneath the tip is very 

 feeble, and there is a distinct emargination, almost angular, opposite the 

 base of the tragus, succeeded by a well-developed terminal lobe ; the general 

 form of the ear is, moreover, oval, not triangular. 



The tragus is slender and acutely pointed, with a quadrangular lobe at 

 the base of its outer margin. In V. murinus the tragus is subacutely point- 

 ed, and the lobe at the base of the tragus is remarkably small.* 



The fur is dark brown above, with light brown tips ; beneath, dark 

 brown, almost black, with grayish tips. 



The first upper premolar is very small, scarcely visible from without, 

 and not much larger than the second. In V. murimis this tooth is 

 distinctly visible from without and much larger than the second premolar. 



The specimen (an adult female preserved in spii'it) from which the 

 above description is taken, was obtained at Chamba, at an elevation of about 

 3000 feet, by H. McLeod Hutchison, Esq., H. M.'s 14th Regiment. 



* The relative shape and size of the ears and tragi of F. murinu^s and V. mun- 

 noides are well shown in PI. XIV, figs. 12, 13. 



