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Show 1870.] MR. R. SWINHOE ON CHINESE MAMMALS. 617 hidden in caverns. The females and young are reddish-brown, the adult males black. 10. "VESPERTILIO FIMBRIATUS, Peters, n. sp." (Fringed Bat.) " Closely allied to V. emarginatus, Geoffr. Ears rather more emarginate and more pointed ; tragus straight and shorter; wings extending to the middle of the metatarsus; margins of interfemoral aud lumbar membranes ciliated. " Third lower incisor horizontally half as long as the canine. Upper canine and third premolar closer together than in V. emarginatus or V. daubentonii, the second small premolar being situated at the inner side of the third. " Above light brown, below ash-coloured, all the hair at the base slate-coloured. mulirns. " Total length about 85 Head 18 Total length of ear 15 Anterior margin of ear 13 Tragus 7 Forearm 39 Tibia 16-17 Foot 11-12" A common species at Amoy. Several examples procured ; some are plain brown on the upper parts, others rufescent brown. 11. " VESPERTILIO LANIGER, Peters, n. sp." (Woolly-faced Bat.) " Ears, tragus, and face very similar to those of V. mystacinus; wings extending to the middle of metatarsus ; point of tail exserted. " Teeth sinilar to those of the same species, third lower incisor larger, and lower canines with much shorter points. " Above dark brown, beneath greyish white. The greater basal part of the hair slate-coloured. .... J millims. " Total length about 80 Head 18 Ear 13 Tragus 6 Forearm 35 Tibia 16 Foot 10 >> This little woolly Bat is comparatively rare at Amoy ; I only procured three specimens. 12. VESPERTILIO RUFO-NIGER. (Black-and-Orange Bat.) Vespertilio rufo-niyer, Tomes, P. Z. S. 1858, p. 85, pl. Ix. This Bat was described (I. c.) by Mr. Tomes from a specimen procured by Mr. Fortune at Shanghai. I have seen it at Tamsuy, N.W. Formosa (see P. Z. S. 1864, p. 381, Pteropus?). At Takow (S.W. Formosa) I procured a specimen, a note on the habits of which will |
