1888.] W. T. B]aniord— Notes on Indian Chiroptera. 267 



Myotis parvipes may have been a true Vespertilio, It is to be regretted 

 that so imperfect a description was given. 



I had expected to be obliged to restore the name of coromandelicus 

 by which this bat was so long and so widely known in India, but, so far 

 as I can ascertain, no Latin name was given by F. Cuvier, who merely 

 called a small bat, but doubtless this species, Vespertilion de Goromandel. 

 (Nouv. Ann. du Museum d' Histoire Naturelle I, p. 21). 



Vesperdgo pipistrellus. 



In the Society's Journal for 1857 (Vol. XX, p. 159, note), Mr. Blyth 

 identified a spirit-specimen sent by Mr. Hodgson of Vespertilio pallidi- 

 ventris with the pipistrelle, after comparing the former with British 

 specimens of the latter. In Blyth's Catalogue, however, although the 

 locality " Himalaya ?" is assigned to the pipistrelle, there is no men- 

 tion of Vespertilio pallidiventris, and the figure of the latter in Hodgson's 

 MS. drawings is very unlike the pipistrelle. Scully is doubtless right 

 in his identification of V. pallidiventris with V. nepalensis. I have ex- 

 amined Hodgson's drawings, and the only reason for doubt in the short- 

 ness of the tragus in the figure. 



Vesperugo kuhli. 



I think Pipistrellus lepidus, Blyth (J. A. S. B. XIV, p. 340), from 

 Kandahar, must be identical with Vesperugo leucotis, Dobson, now con- 

 sidered by the last named writer a variety of V. huhli. The descrip- 

 tion agrees, and the species is common in Sind, Baluchistan, and 

 Southern Persia, consequently it is very likely to be the common small 

 bat of Kandahar. 



SCOTOPHILUS KUHLI. 



I think it is a matter for serious regret that the late Dr. Peters, 

 when he had ascertained, by an examination of Leach's type of Scotophilus, 

 what the genus really was, did not at once propose a new generic term. 

 Leach in 1822 (Trans. Linn. Soc. XIII, p. 71) described a new genus 

 and species of bat under the name of Scotopkilus kuhli. The name 

 Scotophilus was apparently left in oblivion until Dr. Gray in 1838 (Mag. 

 Zool. Bot. II, p. 497) applied it to a very miscellaneous assemblage 

 of bats, comprising the Vespertilio temminchi of Horsfield and the Scoto- 

 philus kuhli of Leach (re-named S. leachi) together with a large num- 

 ber of species of Vesperugo. It is only fair to say that Leach's account 

 of the dentition in the young Scotophilus agreed in some respects with 

 that of Vesperugo, but not with that of the type represented by Vesper- 

 tilio temmincki of Horsfield. 

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