222 VESPERIILIOSriDiE. 



l"-3, ear 0"-5, tragus 0"-22, forearm l"-5, thumb 0"-2, third finger 

 3", fifth finger l"-85, tibia 0"-5, foot 0"-4. 



Hah. Peninsula of India ; Java. 



Type in the collection of the Leyden Museum. 



V. circumdatus may be at once distinguished from all the nearly 

 allied species of this genus by the intensely black colour of the fur, 

 similar black fur being present in a few other species only of Ves- 

 pertilionidae. 



a. ad. sk. India. T. C. Jerdon, Esq. [P.]. 



30. Vesperugo indicus. 



About the size of large specimens of V. maurus, which it resem- 

 bles also in the form of the head and ears. 



Ears short, triangular ; the outer margin of the ear-conch straight 

 almost from the tip to its termination at a short distance behind the 

 angle of the mouth ; tragus broad, with a straight inner and almost 

 evenly convex outer margin, at the base of which there is a distinct 

 triangular lobe ; muzzle broad in front, the margins of the nostrils 

 scarcely projecting. 



Wings from the base of the toes ; postcalcaneal lobe well deve- 

 loped, semicircular ; the extreme tip of the tail alone projecting. 



Fur dark reddish brown above and beneath, the extremities of the 

 fur beneath slightly paler. The wing and interfemoral are clothed 

 only along the sides of the body. Ears and membranes dark brown 

 or black. 



The upper incisors are very similar to those of V. noctula ; the 

 inner incisor on each side is bifid at its extremity, and is exceeded 

 in cross section at the base by the outer incisor, which has an 

 oblique internal cusp not equalling the outer cusp of the inner in- 

 cisor in vertical extent ; the outer side of the outer incisor is hol- 

 lowed out to receive the extremity of the lower canine when the 

 jaws are closed ; first upper premolar quite internal to the tooth- 

 row, not visible from without ; the second upper premolar almost 

 touching the canine ; lower incisors in the direction of the jaws. 



Length (of an adult S ), tead and body 2"-l, tail l"-7, head 0"-65, 

 ear 0"-6, tragus 0"-25, forearm l"-5, thumb 0"-28, third finger 2"-7, 

 fifth finger l"-9, tibia 0"-55, foot 0"-35. 



Hah. India (Mangalore, Malabar coast ; Madras). 



Two specimens of this species, an adult and an immature male, 

 were sent to the writer from Mangalore by Dr. A. F. Dobson. The 

 immature specimen still retains the milk dentition, but the forearm 

 measures 1'3 inch, more than that of adult individuals of V. 

 ahramus from the same locality. 



V. ceylonims, Kelaart (Prodr. Faunse Zeylanicse, p. 22), may be 

 identical with this species, as the description and most of the mea- 

 surements correspond closely ; but the outer upper incisors are 

 described as having two or three cusps, and the length of the tibia 



