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VESPER'riI,IONIDJS. 



The face and upper lip are densely covered with long hair, the ex- 

 tremity of the nose alone naked ; the body is covered with long fine 

 far, but the wing-membranes are nearly naked. Tlie far of the head, 

 neclc, and shoulders longer than that of the hack, which extends for a 

 short distance upon the interfemoral membrane and terminates 

 abruptly, leaving the rest of the membrane quite naked ; beneath, 

 a few very fine and short hairs spring from the transverse dotted 

 lines. 



Upper incisors rather long and nearly equal ; outer incisors unicuspi- 

 date and vertical in direction ; inner incisors in a plane anterior to the 

 outer ones, and directed forwards and inwards ; second upper pre- 

 molars very sm.all, drawn inwards, and not distinguishable without 

 a lens. In the lower jaw the second premolar is about half the size 

 of the first, but much larger than the corresponding tooth above ; it 

 also lies slightly internal to the first premolar. 



Length (of a dried specimen), head and body 1"'5, tail 1"'5, ear 

 0"-65, tragus 0"-3, forearm l"-5, thumb 0"-28, third finger 2"-8, 

 fifth finger 2"-l, tibia 0"-6, foot 0"-3. 



Hah. Madagascar. 



a, b. ad. sk. Voliima, Madagascar. Purchased. 



15. Vespertilio nipalensis. 



Vespertilio nipalensis, Dobson, Proc. As. Soc. Beng. 1871, p. 214 ; 

 Monogr. Asiat. Chiropt. p. 142, figs, a, b (1876). 



Crown of the head almost level with the face-line ; muzzle narrow, 

 appearing somewhat broader near its extremity, owing to the small 

 glandular prominences between the eyes and nostrils ; nostrils open- 

 ing sublateraUy without intervening emargination. Ears shorter 

 than the head, narrow, and pointed ; outer margin of the ear-conch 

 deeply hollowed out immediately beneath the-tip, which projects out- 

 wards considerably ; the lower half of the outer margin is slightly 

 convex, and terminates a short distance in front of the base of the 

 tragus, not forming any lobe or anterior projection ; tragus long, 

 narrow, and pointed, curved slightly outwards ; at the base, on the 

 outer margin, a small lobule is placed, which in this species appears 

 unusually long. 



Wing-membrane from the base of the toes ; toes long, about two 

 thirds the length of the whole foot. 



The fur of the head and back is long and dense, bicoloured, from 

 the base upwards black with brown tips ; beneath, the hairs are 

 black for two thirds their length, the remaining portion to the tip 

 pure white. The whole under surface of specimens dried from spirit 

 appears white, and the dark portions of the hairs are not perceived 

 tiU the fur is raised. Between the eyes, and as far as the slight 

 glandular prominences of the muzzle, the face is covered with very 

 long dense fur of the same quality as that on the back of the head ; 

 in front of the base of the ear and about the eye the fur is very 



