1887.] 



J. Scully — On the Ohiroptera of Nepal. 



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1-8 



1-7 



1-5 



1-5 



20 



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1-9 



1-4 



1-55 



1-6 



1-5 



1-55 



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1-45 



1-6 



0-6 



0-6 



0-6 



0-58 



0-6 



0-63 



0-6 



0-61 



0-5 



0-5 



0-57 



0-5 



0-5 



0-51 



0-53 



0-52 



0-27 



0-23 



0-26 



0-25 



0-25 



0-24 



0-24 



0-26 



1-38 



1-34 



1-4 



1-32 



1-35 



1-4 



1-35 



1-43 



0-28 



0-29 



0-27 



0-28 



0-26 



0'27 



0-27 



0-27 



2-25 



2-26 



2-2 



217 



2-2 



215 



2-27 



2-3 



1-74 



1-7 



1-7 



1-73 



1-7 



1-75 



1-75 



1-8 



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0-34 



0-37 



0-4 



0-34 



0-37 



0-36 



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Length, head and body .., 



„ tail 



„ head 



,, ear 



„ tragus 



„ forearm 



„ thumb 



„ third finger 



„ fifth finger 



,, foot and claws . . 



„ calcaneam 



Expanse 



Fur above dark brown ; beneath ashy, the basal part of the hairs 

 being black. Muzzle, ears, and membranes dusky, with a purplish tint. 

 The specimen whose dimensions are entered in the third column above 

 differs from all the others in having the forehead rather abruptly 

 raised above the face line, the ear& longer, and the third finger different- 

 ly proportioned. The metacarpal bone is longer than in any of the 

 other examples, but the first phalanx of the third finger is shorter, 

 measuring 0*4, while in the other specimens it varies from 0*5 to 0*55. 

 On a comparison of specimens at the British Museum, I find an ex- 

 ample of V. mystacinus in that collection with the third finger propor- 

 tioned as in this abnormal individual ; and all these Nepalese bats agree 

 perfectly with the common V. mystacinus in shape of ear and tragus, 

 and in other essential characters. 



Considering how common this bat is in Nepal, it is very singular 

 that Mr. Hodgson never seems to have obtained a specimen of it there. 

 His first acquaintance with the species was made years after he left 

 Nepal, when he procured it at Siligori, in the Sikkim Tarai, and named 

 it Vespertilio siligorensis. 



18. Vespertilio muricola. 



Vespertilio muricola, Hodgson, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Beng, vol. x, pt. ii, p. 908 

 (1841) (name only) ; Gray, Cat. Hodgson's Collect, Brit. Mus. p. 4 (1846) ; Dobson, 

 Monogr. Asiat. Chir. p. 134 (1876) ; Cat. Chir. Brit. Mus. p. 316 (1878). 



Vespertilio adversus, apud Hutton, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1872, p. 710. 



This is another species from Nepal which Mr. Hodgson named but 

 never described. He presented three examples of it, obtaiaed in the 

 Nepal Valley, to the British Museum, and of these Gray noted in the 

 catalogue above quoted, " Feet large, elongate, half free ; tragus 

 elongate, lanceolate, sub falcate ;" no measurements or other diao-nostic 

 particulars are given. It is difficult to see how this can be considered a 



