4. PLECOTUS. 177 



Length (of an adult d preserved in alcohol), head and body 1" 8, 

 tail l"-8, head 0"-65, ear 0"-7, tragus 0"-35, thumb 0"-3, third 

 finger 3"-l, fifth finger 2"-3, tibia 0"-75, foot 0"-3. 



Hub. Middle and Southern Europe and Northern Africa and 

 Arabia (England, France, Germany, Southern Sweden, Poland, 

 Middle and Southern Eussia, Spain, Italy, Arabia Petrasa). Pro- 

 bably extending throughout the temperate regions of Asia and 

 Northern Africa. 



a. 2 ad., al. Epping Forest. H. Doubleday, Esq. [P.]. 



b. 5 ad., al. Cheshire. 



c-h. d & $ ad., al. Darmsdorf, Silesia. Dr. Giinther [P.], 



i. ad. sk. Europe. 



j. ad. sk. 



2. Synotus darjelingensis. 



Plecotus darjelingensis, Hodgson, Horsfield, Ann. ^ Mag. Nat. Hist. 



1855, xvi. p. 103. 

 Barbastellus daxjelinensis, Dobson, Proc. Asiat. Soc. Beng. 1875, p. 85. 

 Synotus dargelinensis, Bobson, Monogr. Asiat. Chiropt. p. 86 (1876). 



The ears, laid forwards, extend nearly one tenth of an inch 

 beyond the end of the muzzle ; in general shape quite similar to 

 those of S. harhastellus, but the outer margin has no projecting 

 lobe at the junction of its upper and middle third, and is uninter- 

 rupted by any abrupt projection from the tip to its termination 

 above the mouth ; the tip is broadly rounded off, not truncated. 

 Tragus, as in S. harhastellus, triangular, less attenuated above. 

 Muzzle and nostrils quite similar to the European species, but the 

 prominence between the nostrils in front is covered by short hairs, 

 and the inner side of the ear-conch, along the inner margin, is 

 covered with a band of moderately long hairs, extending more than 

 halfway to the tip. 



Length (of an adult $ preserved in alcohol), head and body 2", 

 tail l"-8, head 0"-6o, ear 0"-75, tragus 0"-35, forearm l"-6, thumb 

 0"-28, third finger 2"-9, fifth finger 2"-2, tibia 0"-8, foot 0"-3. 



Hah. India (Darjiling, Khasia hUls, Sikhim, Masuri, Simla) ; 

 Yarkand. 



a. 



5 ad., al. Darjiling. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 



b. ad. sk. India, Capt. Boys. 



4. PLECOTUS. 



Plecotus, Geoffroy, Descr.deTEgxjpte, ii. p. 112 (1812) ; Keys, i^ Bias. 

 Wiegm. Archiv, 1839, p. 306 ; Blasius, Fauna JDeutschlands, p. 38 

 (1857) ; Dohson, Mmogr. Asiat. Chiropt. p. 83 (1876). 



Crown of the head elevated above the face-line ; nostrils opening 

 at the extremity of the muzzle, on the upper surface, in front of 

 more or less deep grooves ; ears very large, united above the fore- 

 head the outer margin of the ear-conch ending abruptly near the 

 angle of the mouth, the inner margin with a more or less promi- 



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