11. HARPIOCEPHALtrs. 281 



canine is very short, scarcely exceeding the blunt cusp of the cin- 

 gulum projecting in front ; lower premolars equal, thick and blunt, 

 larger than the canines, but not equal in vertical extent to the 

 anterior cusp of the first molar. 



Length, head and body 1" -4, tail 1"-1, ear 0"-45xO"-3, tragus 

 0"-26, forearm l"-3, thumb 0"-35, third finger 2"-4, fifth finger l"-8, 

 tibia 0"-45, calcaneum 0"-45, foot 0"-33. 



Hah. Jeripanee, N.W. Himalaya ; elevation 5500 feet. Type in 

 the Museum of the E. I. Comp. at South Kensington. 



4. Harpiocephalus harpia. 



Vespertilio harpia, Temminck, Monogr. Mammal, ii. p. 219, pi. 55 



Vesperugo harpia, Keys. 8,- Bias. Wiegm Archiv, vi. (1840) p. 2 ; 



Wagner, Suppl. Schreb. Saugeth. v. p. 740 (185.5). 

 Harpiocephalus rufus, Oray, Atm. Sf Mag. Nat. Hist. n. p. 259 (1842). 

 Noctulinia lasjura, Hodgson, J. A. S. B. 1847, p. 896. 

 Laaiurus pearsonii, Horsfield, Cat. Mamm. Mm. E.-Ind. Co. p. 36 



(1851) ; Bhjth, J. A. S. B. xx. p. 524 : Jerdon, Mamm. of India, 



p. 40(1867). 

 Vespertilio pearsonii, Tomes, P. Z. S. 1858, .p. 87: Blyth, Cat. Mamm. 



Mm. A. S. Beng. 1873, p. 109. 

 Murina harpia, Bohson, P. A. S. B. 1873, p. 109. 

 Harpiocephalus harpia, Dohson, Monour. Asiat. Chiropt. p. 155, fiffs a 



6, c (skull) (1S76). ' S ' 



Muzzle rather short, obtusely conical ; end of nose projecting con- 

 siderably beyond the lip, consisting of diverging tubular nostrils 

 opening laterally with a slight emargination between as in H. 

 suillus ; ear-conch nearly as broad as long, broadly rounded at the 

 tip ; outer side flatly emarginate beneath the tip, then slightly 

 convex, again emarginate opposite the base of the inner margin, 

 terminating in a small lobe at a short distance in front of the base 

 of the tragus ; inner margin very convex forwards about the junc- 

 tion of its lower and middle thirds, slightly convex and almost hori- 

 zontal in upper two thirds ; tragus with a very small lobe at base 

 of outer margin, attaining its greatest width opposite the base of 

 the inner margin, thence narrowing towards the tip, which is sub- 

 acutely pointed ; inner margin straight or very slightly convex, 

 outer convex below, shghtly concave above (Plate XVII. fig. 2). 



Thumb long, the distal phalanx very long, armed with a large 

 claw. Terminal phalanges of fourth and fifth fingers bifid at their 

 extremities. Wings from the base of the toes. 



The face is very thinly covered with hair ; the inner side of the 

 ear-conch is thinly clothed with very short fine hair. On the wing- 

 membrane the fur extends somewhat beyond a line drawn from the 

 middle of the humerus to the outer toe when the limbs are extended 

 as in flight; the whole of the upper surface of the interfemoral 

 membrane is clothed with long thinly spread hairs, which also cover 

 the legs and the wing-membrane for a short distance beyond, ex- 

 tending also more denseh' upon the calcanea and backs of the feet, 



