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fore-arm, which does not exceed \\ in. in length ; longest digit 2 to 

 2^ in. ; expanse rarely exceeding 7\ in.* Total length 2f in., of which 

 the tail measures 1^ in. ; ears broad, exceeding \ in. in length ; tragus 

 -§- in., appearing lanceolate in the dry specimen, but in the fresh animal 

 somewhat lunate, or a little curved forward and obtuse at tip. The 

 fur is short, as compared with that of the Pipistrelle, and dingy ful- 

 vous-brown above at the surface, below paler and greyish-fulvous : 

 membranes dusky. The skull rather exceeds \ in. long : the upper 

 carnassiez is all but contiguous to the canine, and there is a minute 

 prsemolar situate internally and not visible externally ; and two lower 

 prsemolars, of which the second or carnassiez is longer by about a 

 third than the first. This Bat belongs to that large division of Scoto- 

 philia, Leach (apud Gray), the species of which have permanently 

 two pairs of small upper incisors of about equal size : to these we 

 prefer to restrict the name Scotophilus, reserving Nycticejus for 

 those in which the adults have only one large incisor on each side. 

 Accordingly, we term it (though somewhat doubtfully) Scotophilus 

 coromandelicus. This diminutive species is remarkable for the 

 extreme velocity of its flight, as particularly shewn when darting about 

 a room after being molested ; and it is the most common of the small 

 Bats about Calcutta. Mr. Hodgson did not meet with it in Nepal, 

 and it probably does not inhabit the sub-Himalayas. It is the No. 12 

 of Mr. Elliot's list in the ' Madras Journal of Literature and Science,' 

 X, 99. 



Carnivora. — Dr. Kelaart sent flat skins of what he considered to 

 be two varieties of Jackals : but we regard them as mere individual 

 variations of colour, such as are seen in all parts of India. No other 

 wild canine animal has hitherto been discovered in the island. 



Of Viverrid^e, the Civet of Ceylon is probably not Viverra 

 zibetha, L., as supposed by Mr. Layard, but of a race procured by 

 Mr. Walter Elliot from Travancore, and of which a specimen exists in 

 the museum of the Zoological Society, referred to V. zibetha in Mr. 

 Waterhouse's Catalogue of the mammalia in that collection (1838), No. 



discover no difference whatever. According to Schinz, the same species further 

 inhabits Japan. 



* Dr. Cantor gives 8 in. as the expanse of his V. irretitus, but the other mea- 

 surements sufficiently correspond. 



