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dont forms) ; thirdly, the tooth so high-crowned that its roots are only 

 formed at a late period of life as in Evotomys and others ; and finally the 

 highly specialized growing tooth that never develops roots at all. 



In connection with the dental evolution of this interesting animal, 

 it would be advisable for naturalists and sportsmen in Kashmir to notice 

 what its food is, as compared with that of the other squirrels. Judged 

 from its blunt claws, it probably frequents rocks and precipices rather 

 than trees, and it is therefore possible that its ordinary food may consist 

 of lichens, mosses, and other rock-loving plants, which, by being mixed 

 with sand and particles of rock, would necessitate the development of 

 such long lasting molars as it is remarkable for possessing. 



Additional specimens of Eupetauriis would be most valuable for 

 scientific examination, especially if of different ages, and I may be 

 permitted to express the hope that some of the many British sportsmen 

 Avho annually visit Kashmir will help to enrich either the Indian 

 Museum in Calcutta or the National Museum at home with examples of 

 this, the latest addition to the Mammal-fauna of our Indian Empire. 



IX. — Notes on Indian Chiroptera. — By W. T. Blanford, F. R. S. 

 [Received April 25th ;— Eead June 6th, 1888.] 

 In the course of last year, whilst preparing an account of the bats 

 of India and its dependencies for a general work on Indian Mammalia, 

 I found that, in a few instances, scraps of information are now available, 

 in addition to the mass of facts brought together by my friend Mr. G. E. 

 Dobson in his standard works on the order Chiroptera. In a very few 

 cases I am obliged to differ from his nomenclature, the most important 

 of these being the use of the generic term Ilipposiderus instead of Phyl- 

 lorliina, and of Xantharpyia instead of Gynonycteris. The reasons for 

 these changes I have explained at length in a paper published in the 

 Proceedings of the Zoological Society for 1887, pp. 636, 637. Some 

 points that I had noted have, I find, been already fully investigated by 

 my friend Mr. J. Scully in his paper on the Chiroptera of Nepal, pub- 

 lished in the Society's Journal for last year (Pt. II, p. 233). As some 

 time may still elapse before my work on Mammals will be published, 

 a short note may be useful. I have endeavoured to identify all the 

 species noticed by Hodgson, Blyth, Kelaart, and Jerdon, a few of which, 

 owing doubtless to the difiiculty and occasionally impossibility of deter- 

 mining them satisfactorily, have been left unnoticed by Dobson, and, 



