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of the outer margin, by a second but very small projection, indistinct 

 in some specimens ; inner margin straight, outer margin parallel to 

 the inner margin, convex above. 



Toes about half the length of the whole foot ; last caudal ver- 

 tebra free, or the last and half the antepenultimate vertebra free, 

 especially in the smaller specimens of this species from higher lati- 

 tudes. 



The fur of the body is rather long and dense. In front it ex- 

 tends forwards upon the face as far as a line drawn between the 

 eyes ; behind, it projects over the base of the interfemoral mem- 

 brane, but does not extend upon it ; laterally it covers a very nar- 

 row portion of the wing-membrane, above and beneath, along the 

 sides of the body. The interfemoral membrane is naked above, 

 with the exception of a few fine and almost invisible hairs placed 

 along the first and second vertebrae ; beneath, it is covered for more 

 than two thirds its extent with short greyish hairs, thickest at the 

 root of the tail. 



Above and beneath deep black or very dark brown, the extreme 

 tips of the hairs on the posterior half of the back greyish, so that 

 the fur here appears minutely powdered over with white ; beneath, 

 the tips of aU the hairs are greyish. Cutaneous system black ; the 

 nose, ears, and naked glandular prominences of the upper lip are 

 intensely black. 



Upper incisors nearly equal in length ; the inner incisor on each 

 side bifid, its outer and shorter cusp directed slightly backwards, 

 and in a plane posterior to the outer incisor, wliich eqiials or some- 

 what exceeds it in vertical extent ; lower incisors crowded, over- 

 lapping ; first upper premolar small, quite internal to the tooth-row, 

 in the small northern forms not visible, but in the larger animals 

 from Southern Asia visible from without ; second premolar close to 

 the canine. 



Length, head and body 1""9, taU l"-3, tail free from membrane 

 0"-12, ear 0"-62, tragus 0"-23, forearm- 1"-35, thumb 0"-25, third 

 finger 2"-2, fifth finger l"-6, tibia 0"-55, foot 0"-3. 



Specimens from India and Java are conspicuously larger, and 

 have forearms and tails 1"'6 long ; the extremities of the tails also 

 do not project so much as in the smaller examples of this species 

 from higher latitudes. (See my remarks on this species in Monogr. 

 Asiat. Chiropt. p. 101.) 



Hah. The Palcearctic and Oriental Kegions, extending from the 

 Canary Islands (Pabna, Teneriffe) and Middle Europe (Switzerland, 

 the Tyrol) to China (Pekin, Amoy, Cochin China), India (Khasia 

 HiUs), and the Malay Archipelago (Java). 



a. 9 ad., al. Palma. Rev. R. T. Lowe [P.J. 



(Type of Scotophilus darmni, Tomes.) 



b. cJ ad., al. Teneriffe. Cambridge Museum. 



c. ad. sk. Amoy, China. R. Swinhoe, Esq. [P.]. 



(Type of Vesperuffo pulveratus, Peters.) 



d. skuU. Deccan, India, 



