270 Mr. F. McCoy's Contributions to the Fauna of Ireland. 22. Sorea; ? soccatus, mihi. — Size and proportions of the last nearly, but distinguished by its feet being clad in fur down to the nails, and by its depressed head and tumid bulging cheeks (mystaceal region). Ears large and exposed as in the first two species [murinus and pt/gmceus) , and like them having a rounded tapering tail, but somewhat longer in proportion than theirs. Colour a uniform sordid or brownish slaty blue, extending to the clad extremities. Size nearly of the last. Snout to rump 3^ inches ; tail 2^; head Ijq', palma ^ ; planta|| ; weight f oz. This animal was caught in a wood plentifully watered, but not near the water. I never saw nor heard of it as a tenant of houses, any more than the last-named. It had no musky smell when brought to me dead. I did not examine its glands. P.S. — The above paper completes the notices of Nepalese Mammals published in India, and, like the papers written there, has been composed without the aid of library or museum. XL. — Contributions to the Fauna of Ireland. By Frederick M^CoY, Esq., M.G.S.D. [With a Plate.] Notices of some of the following animals were read to the Na-tural-History Society of Dublin at the June meeting for 1844. The Invertebrata are a portion of a large series collected by Mr. M^Calla on the west coast of Ireland, and placed in my hands for examination and description by my valued friend Dr. Scouler, whose kindness I have before had to acknowledge for the liberal manner in which he has always allowed me to examine and de-scribe any specimens of interest either in the museum of the Royal Dublin Society or in his own private collection. Mammalia. Vespertilio Natter eri (Kuhl). — The singularly small number of bats found in Ireland only amounting at present to three, of which one ( V. Daubentonii) has occurred but in a single instance, renders any addition to their number of peculiar interest to the Irish naturalist, or to those who take an interest in comparing the fauna of Ireland with that of England. The present species, the reddish gray bat of British authors, has not I believe been hitherto recorded in Ireland ; a specimen however was brought to me last summer by G. Mangan, Esq., and is now in the museum of the Natural-History Society of Dublin ; he killed it near that city, and was of opinion that it was the common species in his neigh-bourhood : whether the pipistrelle (the most common Irish bat) might have been confounded with it on the wing, or whether it
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