12. VE8PEBTILI0. 313 



Hah. Himalaya (Nipal, Darjiling) ; India (Chaibasa) ; Khasia 

 hiUs ; China (Shanghai, Kiang, Amoy) ; Island of Formosa. 



a. ad. sk.« Northern China. Purchased. 



*• «■<!. sk. China. Mr. Fortune [C.]. 



c, d. 5 ad., al. Island of Formosa. R. Swinhoe, Esq. [C.l. 



e. 6 ad., al. (type). Nipal. B. H.Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 



/■ ad. sk. ? India. Dr. Falconer [P.]. 



27. Vespertilio insulanim. 



Ears slightly shorter than the head ; inner margin of the ear- 

 conch straight, or even slightly concave in the upper third, the tip 

 narrowly but obtusely rounded off; the outer margin straight for 

 nearly half its length beneath the tip, then abruptly and strongly 

 convex, emarginate opposite the base of the tragus, and terminating 

 in a very distinct small lobe : tragus rather long, straight, and sub- 

 acutely pointed ; the inner margin quite straight, the outer straight 

 in the upper, convex in the lower half, with a round horizontal lobe 

 at the base not succeeded by an emargination above (Plate XVIII. 

 fig. 7, ear, enlarged). 



Wings from the base of the toes ; feet small and slender ; cal- 

 caneum extending halfway between the ankle and the extremity of 

 the tail ; the last rudimentary caudal vertebra alone free. 



Fur, above and beneath, black with light brown extremities ; the 

 tips of the hairs beneath paler than on the dorsal surface, extending 

 slightly upon the membranes. 



First and second upper premolars very small and internal to the 

 tooth-row ; the second lower premolar about three fourths the size 

 of the first. 



Length, head and body l"-6, tail l"-5, head 0"-65, ear 0"-6, 

 tragus 0"-3, forearm l"-4, thumb 0"-25, third finger 2"-3, fifth 

 finger l"-8, tibia 0"-65, calcaneum 0"-9, foot 0"-3. 



Hah. Navigators' Islands. 



This is the only species of the family Vespertilionidce as yet 

 obtained in Polynesia. It resembles V. mystacinus perhaps more 

 closely than any other species, but is distinguished by its greater 

 size, much more deeply emarginate ears and longer tragus, and by 

 other characters enumerated in the description. 



a. ad., al. (type). Navigators' Islands. Mr. Schmeltz [0.]. 



28. Vespertilio montivagus. 



Vespertilio montivagus, Dobson, Journ. Asiat. Soe. Bengal, 1874, 

 p. 237; Monogr. Asiat. Chiropt. p. 136, figs, a, h, c (1876). 



Crown of the head slightly elevated ; muzzle thick and obtuse. 

 Ears narrow, tapering, with rounded tips ; outer side flatly emarginate 

 immediately beneath the tip for about quarter its length, then 

 slightly convex, and, lower down, opposite the base of the tragus, 

 with a small emargination, terminating beyond this in a small 

 rounded lobe ; inner margin convex for two thirds its length, then 

 * Specimen figured in P. Z. S. 1858, p. 82, pi. Ix. 



