12. VESPEETIIIO. 303 



short and thin ; and the same kind of fur also clothes the glandular 

 prominences, interspersed with long straight hairs. On the upper sur- 

 face the -wing-membranes are clothed along the sides of the body only ; 

 beneath they are covered as far as a line drawn between the middle 

 of the humerus and femur ; behind about half the upper surface of 

 the interfemoral membrane is clothed with a few short thinly spread 

 hairs ; the under surface is similarly covered, but the hairs extend 

 further back along the tail. 



The canines in both jaws are very short, in the lower jaw resem- 

 bling premolars ; the first and second premolars are minute, and in 

 the upper jaw scarcely distinguishable without the aid of a lens. 



Length (of an adult $ preserved in alcohol), head and body l"-65, 

 tail 1"'35, head 0""6, ear 0"-48, tragus 0"-25, forearm 1"'35, thumb 

 0"-25, third finger 2"-3, fifth finger l"-75, tibia 0"-6, foot 0"-3, cal- 

 caneum 0"'6. 



Hah. Katmandu, Nipal. 



Type in the collection of the Indian Museum, Calcutta. 



IG. Vespertilio emarginatus, 



Vespertilio emarginatus, Geoffroxj, Ann. du Mushim, vol. viii. p. 198 ; 



MacyiUivray, Natural. Library., vii. p. 96 (1838) ; De Selys-Long- 



champs, Fatma Beige (1842) ; Dobson, Monogr. Asiat. Chiropt. 



p. 142 (1876). 

 ? Vespertilio epichrysus, Temminck, Monogr. Mamm. ii. p. 208 



(1835-41). 

 Vespertilio mystacinus. Keys. Sr Bias. Wiegm. Arcliiv, 1839, p. 310. 

 Vespertilio ciliatus, Blasius, Wiegm. Archiv, 1863, p. 288 ; Fauna 



Deutschl. p. 91, figs. 62, 63 (1857). 



Crown of the head very slightly raised above the face-line ; muzzle 

 long, sloping evenly downwards on the sides to the margin of the. 

 upper lip ; extremity of nose projecting slightly. Ears nearly as 

 long as the head ; laid forwards the tips extend to the end of the 

 nose ; the horizontal margin of the internal basal lobe forms a 

 right angle with the ascending margin, which in its lower fourth is 

 straight, and then slightly convex to the tip; the tip is shortly 

 rounded off ; beneath it the upper third of the outer margin is deeply 

 emarginate (but the tip scarcely projects outwards), then very 

 abruptly convex, and terminating in a small lobe curved inwards. 

 Tragus long, narrow above and acutely pointed, reaching nearly to 

 the edge of the emarginate portion of the outer margin of the conch ; 

 the inner margin slightly convex ; the outer margin convex below, 

 with a small lobe at the base, concave above, so that the tragus is 

 directed outwards. 



Wings to the base of the claws ; extreme tip of the tail free. 



On the upper surface the fur of the body extends thinly upon the 

 wing-membranes as far as a line drawn from the middle of the 

 hunTerus to the knee-joint ; upon the interfemoral as far as a line 

 di-awn from one tibia to the other ; also upon the legs as far as the 

 ankles, and upon the toes very sparingly ; the posterior margin of 



