VESPEEUGO, 



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at a sliort distance beiind the angle of the mouth The greatest 

 breadth of the tragus sHghtly below the middle of the inner margin ; 

 the triangular lobule above the base of the outer margin is succeeded 

 by a slight concavity. Wings from the base of the toes ; feet small ; 

 calcaneum very long; post-calcaneum lobe distinct, rounded; extreme 

 tip of tail free. The posterior edge of interfemoral and wing mem- 

 brane generally margined with white. Membranes and ears, in Sind 

 specimens, white, as also in specimens from Beloochistan and Northern 

 India, answering to Dobson's description of V, leucotis. Bars, sides 

 of face about the eyes, interfemoral, antebrachial, and the wing mem- 

 brane near the sides of the body white, very translucent ; remaining 

 part of the wing membrane traversed by distinct white reticulations. 

 On the upper surface the fur is black at the base for about half the 

 length, remaining portion light yellowish brown ; beneath similar, but 

 the extremities of the hairs much paler, almost white. Glandular 

 prominences on the muzzle greatly developed in a vertical direction so 

 as to cause a considerable depression between them on the face. Inner 

 upper incisors long and acutely pointed. Outer incisors scarcely 

 one-fourth the length of the inner ones; first upper premolar very 

 small ; lower incisors trifid and slightly crowded. 



Length. — (Of an adult j) head and body r75 inches, tail 1'5", ear 

 0-55", tragus 0-25", forearm 1-35,* thumb 0-25", third finger 2-4", fifth 

 finger 1-7*, tibia 0-45*, foot 0-28." 



Eah. — Southern Europe, countries south of the Pyrenees and the 

 Alps ; Northern Africa, Southern, Asia, Palestine, Sind, Persia, Beloo- 

 chistan, Afghanistan, Madras, Calcutta, probably generally distributed 

 throughout these countries and India. 



Vesperugo maurus, Blasius, Wiegm. Arch. 1853, p. 35; Dohson, 

 Cat. Chirop. Br. Mus. 1878, p. 218; Anderson, Cat. Mammals Ind, 

 Mus. p. 127. 



Muzzle broad and flat above, the glandular prominences on each 

 side well developed and increasing the width of the muzzle; nasal 

 orifices opening almost on a level with the front surface of the muzzle, 

 without intervening emargination. Bars broad, triangular, broadly 

 rounded off above ; the outer margin straight above for nearly half its 

 length, then slightly convex to the base, terminating midway between 

 the base of the tragus and the angle of the mouth in a small lobe. 

 Tragus broad, reaching its greatest breadth above the middle of the 

 inner margin ; at the base of the outer margin a distinct triangular 

 lobule, succeeded above, immediately below the middle of the outer 

 margin, by a second but very small projection, indistinct in some 

 specimens ; inner margin straight, outer margin parallel to the inner 

 margin, convex above. 



Toes about half the length of the whole foot ; last caudal vertebra3 

 free, especially in the smaller specimens of this species. Fur long 

 and dense on the body ; extends in front forward on the face as far as 

 a line drawn between the eyes ; behind it, it projects over the base of 



