414 Notice of two Marmots. QNo. 137- 



3. Ehinolophus Perniger, Mihi. Structure typical. Inguinal teats, 

 distinct large cup-shaped frontal sinus. Tongue considerably exten- 

 sile, fleshy, full, smooth anteally, subpapillate towards the gullet, nose- 

 plate spreading amply to sides, and exceeding the edge of the upper 

 lip, flat and free all round the margin, merely membranous, furnished 

 with two salient processes, whereof the lower or anteal one is like a 

 door-knocker, and the upper or posteal, a graduate spire. Ears very large, 

 much longer than the head, shaped like a broad acutely pointed leaf, 

 transversely striate, nude save at base, their fine points slightly drooped ; 

 the* false or inner ear semicircular in form, and anteally much attached 

 to the cheek, so as to fold over the orifice of the auditory passage, 

 where it doubles upon the anteal part of the helix. Tail six-jointed, 

 shorter than the body, and its full membrane squared nearly between 

 the spread radii or metatarsal processes. Wings ample: thumb free 

 and furnished with a nail : first finger one-jointed and no nail ; the rest 

 three-jointed and unarmed. Fur longish, very soft, lax and slightly 

 curled. Colour uniform black, embrowned on the nude cutaneous parts, 

 slighted tipped with silver on the back. Snout to rump three inches 

 and a quarter (female,) tail two and one-eighth ; head one and five- 

 sixteenths, expanse seventeen ; ears from anteal base one and eleven- 

 sixteenths, from the crown of the head or posteal base one and six- 

 sixteenths ; fore arm two and five-eighth ; second or longest finger 

 four ; leg or tarse one and three- eighth ; foot from os calcis to end of 

 talons thirteen-sixteenths. 



Habitat, the central region of the Sub-Himalayas : shy : never ap- 

 proaches houses or the cultivated country : dwells in the deep forests 

 and caves of the more precipitous mountains. [Mr. Hodgson has sent 

 some other spicees of this genus, with descriptions ; but as the Society 

 expects shortly to receive from Europe M. Temminck's Monograph of 

 the Rhinolophi, I deem it better to await the arrival of that treatise 

 on the group, before venturing to determine Mr. Hodgson's and some 

 other species of Horse-shoe Bats in the Museum. — Cur. As. Soc] 



Nepal, February, 1843. • B. H. Hodgson. 



