976 Description of three Indian species of Bat. [No. 120. 



tended ; though this may perhaps be owing to the parts having become 

 rigid by lying in spirits : ears, posteriorly, f inch, and anteriorly, 

 to the lobe even with the mouth, f inch ; their breadth at base f inch, 

 exclusive of the duplicature of skin over the eye ; and tips apart, as they lie 

 flatly outwards. If inch : length of fore-arm 2f inches, and from wrist 

 to extremity of wing 3f ; tibia 1 inch ; and foot, minus the claws, 

 nearly \ inch : beneath the nostrils is a duplicature of the upper-lip, (rudi- 

 mental in the preceding species,) divided except in front, and merging la- 

 terally into the inner surface of the lip ; under- lip reflected as usual : 

 the throat cavity fully developed, but rather less so in the female : co- 

 lour of the fur as described. 



T. hrevicaudus, Nobis. — For this species I am indebted to the kindness 

 of Dr. Coles of Madras, who presented to me, for the Society, a 

 collection of skins of Mammalia obtained at Travancore, among which 

 was a single specimen of this Bat, which is at once distinguished from 

 its known congeners by the shortness of its tail. 



Length, from nostrils to end of tail, about 3 inches, the tail ^ mch, 

 and entirely enveloped in the membrane, though perhaps merely sheath- 

 ed in it, and capable of some protrusion ; the membrane extends consider- 

 ably less backward beyond its tip than in the others : alar expanse about 1 3 

 inches, or perhaps rather less ; ears posteriorly, \ inch, or anteriorly, 

 as in the others, f inch ; their breadth at base ^ inch ; and distance of the 

 tips apart, as they lie flatly outwards, 1^ inch. Length of fore-arm 2^ 

 inches, and from wrist to end of wing 3f inches ; tibia nearly f inch, 

 and foot, exclusive of claws, under f inch. No sign of throat-sac in the 

 specimen, and the merest trace of the excrescences under the lower jaw. 

 Fur dingy-white for the basal half, the remainder dusky-brown with 

 light brown at the extreme tips, which last is more developed on the 

 under-parts. Membranes apparently pale, and face dark. 



In conclusion, let me avail myself of the present occasion to request 

 from those who may be interested in the elucidation of Indian Zoology, 

 to lose no opportunity of securing specimens of as many species of Bat 

 as fall under their observation ; these should be placed in spirits (though 

 not too many in the same vessel, or they speedily decompose) ; and in 

 the present state of our knowledge respecting the species inhabiting 

 India, it is desirable that many examples of each kind should be preserv- 

 ed for distribution to difl^erent Museums, by which means a certainty of 



