1887.] J. Scully— 0^ the Chiroptera of Nepal. 249 



This species is not uncommon in the Nepal Valley, although Mr. 

 Hodgson never obtained it. It often comes into lighted rooms at night 

 to hunt for insects. While being pursued in a room, it constantly flies 

 very low down, not more than a couple of feet from the floor. It is a 

 permanent resident in Nepal and does not hibernate there. 



11. Phyllorhina amboinensis. 



Phyllorhina amboinensis, Peters, M. B. Akad. Berl. 1871, p. 323 ; Dobson, Mon. 

 Asiat. Chir. p. 72 (1876) ; Cat. Chir. Brit. Mas. p. 150 (1878). 

 Phyllorhina micropus, Hutton, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1872, p. 703. 



I captured two specimens of this bat in the Nepal Valley on the 

 22nd of October; the animals had entered a lighted room on the 

 ground floor about 9 o'clock in the evening. 



The following are dimensions of these examples — both females — in 

 inches : — 



1 2 



Length, head and body 1*6 1*7 



„ tail 1-03 1-0 



„ head 0-65 0-65 



„ ear 0*63 0'62 



Length, forearm 1*40 1*37 



„ thirdfinger 2'0 2*1 



„ fifth finger 1-8 1-78 



„ tibia 0-58 0-57 



„ foot 0-27 0-27 



„ calcaneum 026 0*3 



Expanse 8-9 8-9 



These specimens agree well with a bat in the collection of the 

 British Museum, from Lingasugur in the Deccan, which had been 

 compared with the type of Phyllorhina amboinensis in the Berlin 

 Museum by Dr. Dobson. In the Nepalese specimens the wing-membrane 

 is attached to the tarsus. 



Mr. Hodgson never obtained this species in Nepal. 



Captain Hutton observes that it occurs in the summer months both 

 in the lower hills near Masuri and in the Dehra Doon. He adds that one 

 was taken on a warm evening in September, having flown in to the lights 

 in a room, and another was taken at the foot of the hills, in the same 

 way, in October ; but that it is by no means common, 

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