12. VESI'ERIILIO. 295 



Crown of the head rather abruptly and considerably raised above 

 the face-line ; muzzle narrow and pointed, with slightly projecting 

 nostrils opening sublaterally, with an intervening emargination. 

 The shape of the head and muzzle is similar to that of Kerivoula 

 liardwickii. Ears as long as the head, narrow, tapering, with 

 rounded-off tips ; immediately beneath the tip about half the outer 

 margin is hollowed out, the remaining lower half convex. Tragus 

 very long and slender, slightly tapering towards the tip, which 

 is rounded off (Plate XIX. fig. 1, ear, enlarged). 



Wings from the ankles. Peet very large, about one fourth the 

 length of the head and body ; toes more than half the length of the 

 whole foot, claws remarkably long and strong ; the outer toe con- 

 siderably shorter than the others, and with a somewhat larger claw. 



Fur above black ; beneath black, with whitish tips. The face is 

 very hairy, and the upper lip is clothed with long straight hairs. 

 The wing-membrane on the upper surface is covered with hair as 

 far as a line connecting the junction of the proximal and middle 

 thirds of the humerus with the knee-joint ; from the knee the hairs 

 pass backwards along the tibia to the back of the foot. The base of 

 the interfemoral membrane, a little further back than a line joining 

 the knee-joints, is covered, the remainder naked. Beneath, the 

 wing-membrane is clothed as far as a line drawn from the elbow to 

 the knee-joLat, and half the interfemoral membrane has a few thinly 

 spread hairs scattered over its surface. 



The first and second upper premolars are very small, and (in the 

 type specimens) not distinguishable without the aid of a lens. 



The second upper premolar is but slightly internal to the first ; ill 

 the lower jaw both premolars stand in the tooth-row. Lower 

 canine very small, not equal to the first molar in vertical extent. 



Length (of an adult S preserved in alcohol), head and body 

 l"-75, tail l"-45, head 0"-6, ear 0"-6, tragus 0"-3, forearm l"-45, 

 third finger 2"-3, fifth finger l"-85, thumb 0"-3, tibia 0"-6, foot 

 0"-4. 



Hab. Caves of Bhima Devi, Kashmir (elevation about 6000 feet), 

 where the type specimens were obtained by Captain W. G. Murray. 



Type in the collection of the Indian Museum, Calcutta. 



a. c? ad., al. Oaves of Bhima Devi, Kashmir. Calcutta Museum [E.]. 



7. Vespertilio dasycneme. 



Vespertilio dasycneme, Boie, Ms, 1825, p. 1200 ; Wagner, Sitppl. 



Schreh. Sdngeth. v. p. 757 (1855) ; Blctdus, Fauna Leutschl. p. 10.3, 



figs. 09, a & i (1857J ; Bohson, Monogr. Asiat. Chiropt. p. 129 



(1876). 

 Vespertilio limnophilus, Temminck, Monogr. Mammal, ii. p. 176 



(1839). 



Ears shorter than the head, laid forwards the extremities do not 

 reach to the end of the nose ; inner margin of the ear-conch straight 

 in its lower third, then regularly convex to the tip, which is obtusely 



