﻿1874.] G. E. Dobson— 0;^ tlie Asiatic Species of Molossi. 143 



Amoy by Mr. Swinhoe and referred to by him under the name of Di/sopes 

 Miippelii belongs to this species also. 



This adds another species to the large nmnber of Ghiroptera known to 

 be common to Em-ope and Asia. 



Ntctinomus tkagatus, n. sp. 



The shape of the tragus is similar to that of N, Cestonii, and has the 

 same relative size ; ears like those of iV. plicatus but not connected by a 

 band in front ; wing-membrane from the ankles ; calcaneum distinct, termi- 

 nating in a lobe ; free portion of the tail shorter than in N. plicatus. 



This species, though so very well distinguished from N. plicatus by the 

 above-mentioned characters, resembles that species very closely in general 

 aspect, and the measurements of the different parts correspond so closely 

 that on a superficial examination it may be confounded with it. 



I found, in a bottle in the Indian Museum which had been labelled N. 

 plicatus by Blyth, two specimens, of which one only was referable to that 

 species, the other presented the characters enumerated above and so has 

 formed the type for my new species. The Indian Museum has since receiv- 

 ed other specimens of N. tragatus from Rajanpur on the north-western 

 frontier of India, and from Jashpur near Chutia Nagpur. 



h. Ears conjoined at the base of their inner margins ; tragus very 

 small, quadrate. (Subgenus, Dgsopes). 



Nyctinomtjs plicatus. 



Vespertilio ;plicatus, Buchanan, Trans. Linn. Soc, 1800, Vol. V, p. 261. 



Nyctinomws Bengalensis, Geoff., Desc. de I'Egypte, II, p. 130. 



Nyctinomus tenuis, Horsf., Zool. Researches in Java. 



Mops Indicus, F. Ciivier, Dents des Mammif., p. 49. 



Dysopes plicatus, Temm., Monog. de Mammal., Vol. 1, p. 223. 

 I have examined Buchanan's type of this species from General Hard- 

 wicke's collection in the British Museum, also specimens of iV. tenuis, 

 Horsfd. from Java. The only perceptible difference consists in the attach- 

 ment of the wing-membrane. In N. plicatus although a strong raphe 

 passes from the ankle along the tibia to the margin of the wing-membrane 

 yet the latter can only be said to commence from a point nearly midway 

 between the ankle and the knee joints, while in N. tenuis the wing has its 

 origin from the ankle joint or very close to it. It would be necessary be- 

 fore separating the Indian and Javanese forms into distinct species to 

 examine a large series of specimens as it is probable that intermediate exam- 

 ples exist. 



To this section, distinguished by the very small tragus, and by the 

 connection of the ears in front by a low band, belongs also N. ^gyptiacus 

 from Africa. 



