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limited to the - K ' ex P ec t e( l that many species of this order, of which fully two-thirds are 
desert re»i 0 ^ s r °P lca d an d suh-tropical parts of the earth, would he found in the cold and 
s pecies ; aiK | ,^ avers °d hy the expedition. Accordingly, the collection contains but six 
P er tilionidce a ] '?f e ° ne Was Stained only in Kashmir. All belong to one family, the Ves- 
a Uies, that tl & arC We ^ known European forms, or differ so slightly from their European 
Su PerficiaUy the Cai ' not Be considered more than sub-species or varieties. The fur exhibits 
s, a v erv same I ,a l e colour in all the specimens which were obtained in dry sandy dis- 
co:Q stant character in bats inhabiting desert regions, as the writer has frequently 
Family— FESPEETILI ONIDJjJ. 
y 1. Vespertjgo pipistrellus. 
rZT th ° pip ! strellus > Sehreb. Saugth. I, p. 167, PI. 54, (177b). 
' ru V° pipistrellus, Dobson, Monograph of Asiatic Chiroptera, p. 95 ; and Cat. Chiropt. Brit. 
Mus -> 1878, p. 223 . 
rjij^ A an Sibissar, between Kashgliar and Yarkand : Kashmir. 
distributed aon ^ a;ins a Etrge number of specimens of this species, which is so widely 
P-'Dhiiiai hah oPtlrern Europe and Asia. Those taken in the Yarkand region have the 
H |e oxtroinit i < s ' o f ^ Ur C0Ver Big the back very pale yellowish-brown, almost buff, and 
w Mte iu aleohoi° ^Be .hairs °d the under surface are so light-coloured as to appear almost 
0 l d, the extrem ■+■ AV ^ e ^Be specimens obtained in Kashmir are very dark coloured through- 
specimens * ^ ^ U! Bni^s being of a slightly paler colour than the base. The Kash- 
'd’d of tho ^ rese *nBle V. abramus in the comparatively shallow emargination of the upper 
6 °uter side of the ear-conch. 
Order CHIROPTERA . 1 
trict! 
Pointed out. 
2. Vespertjgo borealis. 
P^Perv ^ 01ea ^ 9 > Nillson, Ilium. Fig. Scandin. Fauna, haft 19, pi. 36 (1838). 
^ €s Perun 0 ?^**°”*’ Ke y s - Bias. Wiegm. Archiv., 1839, p. 315. 
° oreali S) Dobson, Mon. As. Chiropt., p. 105 ; Cat. Chiropt. B. M„ p. 203. 
Alii oihiasar and Kizil, Eastern Turkestan. 
/ mthough thi 
iot' as I Cari the most northern of European and Asiatic bats, has not hitherto 
Europe and erm ^ ne ) Been reported from any locality south of the Harz mountains 
Uch must be Ptange in Asia, I find in the collection three specimens of a bat 
^Pocimeug of p. Co ^ sl d e red examples of it. They differ slightly in a few characters from 
t^stitut e a distinct ? ^ • P rescrve( i iu the museums, but not sufficiently so, in my opinion, to 
middle of the ^ ecies - dn them the tragus reaches its greatest width slightly below 
inner margin ; the post-calcaneal lobe is very narrow ; the edge of the 
AU th e identifioatio; 
! us and notes on this order are by Mr. G. A. Dobson, m. a., m. b . 
