1857.] Proceedings of tie Asiatic Society. 285 



Of mammalia, Rhinolophus tragatus, Hodgson (very dark-coloured), 

 Corsiea caudata, (Hodgson, — distinct from C. alpina— Sorex alpinus y 

 Schinz),* Soriculus nigrescens, Talpa microura, Hodgson (since set 

 up as a skeleton), specimens in spirit of Sciurus lokroides and Sc. 

 McClellandii, and a skeleton (imperfect) of Sciuroptera albonigra. 



Of reptiles, Calotes (?) tricarinatus, Mocoa sikimensis, Calamaria 

 fusca, nobis (several, the largest of them 16 in. long), dipsas (?) colu- 



brina, n. s., Trigonocephalus (?), Tr. dipsas, var. (anterior 



half greenish-grey, with black-bordered scales), Trigonocephalus nil- 



GIRIENSIS, PoLYPEDATES MARMORATA (J. A. S. XXIV, 188, of which 



Hyla obtusa, nobis, <T. A. S. XII, 931, proves to be the young). 



3. — Prom myself. Carcass of a fine male Sia-gosh (Felis caracal), 

 which has been prepared as a stuffed specimen. 



Lastly, may be noticed a purchased skin, from the neighbourhood of 

 Darjiling, of the remarkably handsome and curiously coloured Bat, JNyc- 

 ticejus ornatus, nobis, J. A. S. XX, 159, 517, where described from the 

 Ehasya hills. The present beautiful specimen had less of the pale colour 

 on the membranes than that originally described ; it being confined chief- 

 ly to the interfemoral, and to the margin of the fore-arms. Fur of the 

 upper-parts pale fulvous with bright ruddy tips, darker laterally and 

 posteriorly : an interrupted pale median line from the occiput, composed 

 in part of pure white tufts, one at the occiput, another between the 

 shoulders, and a third on the middle of the back ; corresponding to these 

 are three white lateral tufts on-each side, the first being upon the shoul- 

 der: lower-parts subdued white, with a broad dark brown collar or 

 gorget, continued downward as a wide median streak upon the belly j 

 from the shoulders, the white is continued round as a second gorget, in- 

 terrupted in the middle, but prolonged down each side of the pectoral 

 region, and approximating posteriorly; being bordered outwardly with 

 dark brown at the base of the volar membrane. The pencil, however, 

 is required to aid the pen to convey a vivid idea of the markings of this 

 singularly handsome species, which may well bear the popular designa- 

 tion of * Harlequin Bat,' a name that should conduce to its facile recog- 

 nition. 



E. Blyth. 



* Contrary to the opinion of Mr. R. F. Tomes, J. A. S. XXIV, 362. N. B. 

 The small Shrew noticed in J. A. S. XXIV, 188, as having been found in a cellar 

 in Madras, I find, from a memorandum, was returned to the Hon'ble W. Elliot, 

 Madras C. S. 



