282 VESPERTILIONID^. 



and projecting beyond the toes. The backs of the forearms are 

 covered with a few short hairs. Beneath, the wing-membrane is 

 covered with fine hairs as far as a line drawn from the elbow to the 

 knee-joint ; the interfemoral has a few very short hairs, chiefly 

 along the tail. 



Outer upper incisor shorter than the inner one, and wedged in 

 between it and the canine ; upper premolars well developed and 

 nearly equal ; posterior or third molar small, deciduous, less than 

 one quarter the size of the second molar, and generally absent in 

 adult animals ; third lower molar much smaller than the second, 

 but elevated slightly above it by its position on the root of the 

 ascending ramus of the jaw. 



Length (of an adult j preserved in alcohol), head and body 2""5, 

 tail 2", head 0"-95, ear 0"-7x0"-5, tragus 0"-4, forearm 2", thumb 

 0"'6, third finger 3"-8, fifth finger 3", tibia 0"'85, calcaneum 0"-7, 

 foot 0"-4. 



Hah. Himalaj^a (Darjiling ; Khasia hills) ; Sumatra; Java; Am- 

 boina. Type in the collection of the Leyden Museum. 



(For description of the skull and dentition of this species, and 

 remarks on its food &c., see ' Monograph of the Asiatic Chiroptera' 

 referred to above.) 



a. 2 ad., al. Malabar coast. Purchased. 



b. ad. sk. Amboina. Purchased. 



5. Harpiocephalus cyclotis. 



Murina cyclotis, Duhson, P. A. S. B. Dec. 1872, p. 210; J. A. S. B. 



1873, pt. ii. p. 206, pi. xiv. 

 Harpiocephalus cyclotis, Dobsan, Manogr. Asiat. Chiropt. p. 158, 



figs, a, b, c (skuU) (1876). 



Muzzle and nostrils as in H. harjiia, Temm. The ears are nearly 

 as wide as long, and almost quite circular — the only interruption to 

 the regular convexity of the external margin being a very faint 

 flattening of the upper and outer portion, and a slight convexity 

 opposite the base of the tragus (Plate XVII. fig. 3, head, enlarged). 

 The tragus is shaped like that of II. suillus, but is considerably 

 longer, and tapers to a much finer point. 



Wing-membrane attached along the whole length of the outer 

 toe to the base of the claw ; feet smaU, toes of nearly equal length ; 

 extreme tip of tail alone free. 



The upper surface of the interfemoral membrane is covered with 

 hair, which is most dense at the root of the tail, along the tibiae, 

 and on the calcanea ; it also extends across the tibia to the wing- 

 membrane. The backs of the feet are thickly covered with hair 

 which exceeds the toes in length. 



On the upper surface the fur is bicoloured, dark brown at the 

 base, with bright ferruginous tips ; beneath paler brown throughout. 



The upper incisors are long and slender; the outer incisor is 

 shorter than the inner, and almost touches the canine at its base, 

 but is widely separated from it at its extremity : at the outer side 



