310 [No. 3, 



XII. — JVotes on a collection of GJiiroptera from India and Burma, with 

 descrijptions of new species. — JB^ G. E. Dobson, M. A. ; M. B. ; 



F. L. S. &c. 



(Received 30th October. Read 7tli November, 1877.) 



[Of the collections described in the following paper, only a portion of the sped-, 

 mens from Sind were obtained by myself. The other Sind specimens were collected 

 and given to me by Mr. H. E. Watson, For the Travanoore collection I am indebt- 

 ed to Col. R. H. Beddome, and the Burmese bats were obtained by Mr. Limborg in the 

 neighbourhood of Moulmain. 



W. T. Blanford.] 



Mr. W. T. Blanford has very kindly sent to me for examination an 

 interesting collection of Chiroptera consisting of specimens obtained in 

 Sind, in the hills near Travancore, and in Burma ; representing in all 

 twelve species, whereof I find that two are undescribed. 



I. — Species feom Sii^d. 



1. Cynopterus marginatus. 



Pteropits marginatus, Geoffroy, Ann. du Museum, XIV, p. 97. 

 This small sj^ecies of frugivorous bat is generally distributed through-^ 

 out India, but has not hitherto, so far as I know, been recorded from Sind. 



2. ScotopMlus TemmincTcii. 



Vespertilio Temminchii, Horsfield, Zoolog. Eesearches in Java, (1824), 

 Exceedingly common in India. Specimens of this sj)ecies are rarely 

 ^.bsent from the smallest collections. 



3. Scotopliilus palUdus. 

 Scotopliilus pallidus, Dobson, Monogr. Asiat. Chiropt. p. 186, (1876), 

 The third specimen of this species as yet obtained. It agrees in 

 structure and in measurements with the type specimen, but the colour of 

 the fur is darker, being light chestnut brown above, and brownish buff be- 

 neath, the base of the hairs on both surfaces pale buf£, 

 Hab. Near Shikarpur, Sind. 



4. Yesperugo ahramibs. 

 Vespertilio ahramus, Temminck, Monogr. Mammal. II, p. 232, (1835- 

 41). 



One specimen of this widely distributed species. 



