12. VE3P1!K'X1LI0, 291 



Deutitioii as in V. capaccbul. The second lower premular scarcely- 

 more than half the height and less than one third the size of the 

 first premolar. 



This species is at once distinguished by the attachment of the 

 ■wing-membranes and by the intensely black colour of the claws. 



Length (of the type specimen, an addt J , preserved in alcohol), 

 head and body 2'-2, tail 2"-l, head 0"'75, ear 0"-78, tragus 0"-35, 

 forearm l"-8, thumb 0"-35, third finger 3"-6, fifth finger 2"-4, tibia 

 0"-7, ealcaneum 0"-9, foot 0"-55. 



Hah. Phihppine Islands. 



a. 5 ad., al. (type). Philippine Islands. Zool. Soc. OoUection. 



3. Vespertilio hasseltii. 



^'^espertilio hasseltii, Tcm/n. Moiiogr. Mammal, ii. p. 223 (1835-41) ; 



Peters, MB. Akad. Beii. 1866, p. 18; Dohsoti, Monogr. Asiat. 



Chiropt. p. 126 (1870). 

 Vesperugo hasseltii, Wat/ner, Suppl. Schreh. Sduqeth. i. p. 512 (1840), 



V. p. 740 (1855). 

 Trilatitus hasseltii, Grai/, Ann. Sf Mag. Nat. Hist. .v. p. 258 (1842). 



Ears shorter than the head, and rather narrow ; laid forwards the 

 extremities reach very little further than half the distance between 

 the eye and the end of the nose ; they are shaped almost precisely 

 similar to those of V. macrotarsus ; the tips are broadly rounded, 

 the outer margin forms a straight li]ie from the tip to a point oppo- 

 site the base of the tragus, where it is interrupted by a fold of the 

 conch passing outwards to form the posterior margin of the small 

 lobe, in which the outer margin of the ear ends slightly in front of 

 the inner margin (Plate XVIII. fig. 5, ear, enlarged). Tragus 

 moderately long, narrow, and tapering to an acute point ; the inner 

 margin straight, the outer slightly convex, with a triangular lobe at 

 the base ; it is not so much attenuated towards the tip nor so acutely 

 pointed as in V. macrotarsus. 



Wings from the ankles ; feet very long and slender ; interfemoral 

 membrane large, acutely angular behind. Pur very short above and 

 beneath ; the muzzle in front of the eyes almost naked. The fur 

 of the body scarcely extends upon the wing-membranes, except at 

 their origin from the sides of the body ; upon the interfemoral it 

 extends slightly further back than a line drawn between the knee- 

 joints. Beneath, the fur extends upon the wing-membrane as far 

 as a line drawn from the elbow-joint to the commencement of the 

 distal third of the femur ; upon the interfemoral its extent is similar 

 to that on the upper surface, but about half the surface of the mem- 

 brane is covered thinly with minute hairs ; tibia and feet (except at 

 base of claws) quite naked on both surfaces. 



Fur, above, dark at the base, with brown tips ; beneath, dark 

 brown or black, with white extremities. 



The second premolar in both jaivs is extremely small, and with 

 difficulty seen even with a lens ; it is placed in the angle betweou 



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