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Show 1 9 0 5 .] MAMMALS FROM JAPAN. 3 3 7 2. R h in o lo ph u s fer r um - e q u in um nippon Temm. S . 485. Tano, Miyasaki Ken, Kiushiu. 3. P ipistr e l lu s a b r am u s Temm. S . 6. Takayu, near Yonezawa, Uzeu, N. Central Hondo. Dr. Jentink* has shown that Temminck's Vespertilio akokomuli is the same species as his V. abramus. The type locality of both is Nagasaki, Kiushiu. " Caught, with the two succeeding species, in caves near the village."-M. P. A. 4. M yot is (L euconoe) m acro dact ylu s Temm. 5 . 490,500. 2 . 493, 494, 515, 516, 517. Tano, Miyasaki Ken, Kiushiu. 500'. Dimensions of an adult male :- Forearm 36 mm. Head and body 44 ; tail 35 ; ear 14-5. These specimens agree absolutely with Temminck's description, and there can be no doubt that they belong to his species, in spite of Peters's assertion + that macrodactylus resembled very closely the European M. capaccinii, to which these examples bear no resemblance whatever. Indeed, so great is the discrepancy, that I am tempted to suppose that Peters did not really see the specimens described by Temminck at all. M. macrodactylus in fact is more closely allied to M. daubentoni. 5. M yot is na t ter er i b om b in u s , subsp. n. 5 . 486, 487, 488, 489, 492. Tano, Miyasaki Ken, Kiushiu. 500'. Similar in essential respects to the European M. nattereri, which it evidently represents in Japan. But the ear appears to be rather longer (judging from skins only), the tragus narrower and more boldly curved outwards, the skuil is more abruptly and considerably inflated in the frontal region, and the colour is not quite the same. In true M. nattereri the colour is paler and more uniform than in the other small European species of Myotis, this being apparently due to the fact that the pale brown ends to the hairs are longer and therefore hide the blackish-grey of their bases. In bombinus, however, the coloration is more normal, a darker variegated brown, the blackish-grey bases of the hairs showing through. In a similar way below, the light ends to the hairs are shorter and less prominently white. Dimensions of the type :- Forearm 40 mm. Head and body 52 ; tail 44 ; ear 17. * Notes Leyd. Mus. ii. p. 37 (1879). f MB. Ak. Berl. 1866, p. 681. Dobson, on this statement, actually synonymised macrodactylus with capaccinii. |