74 Rev. L. Jenyns on a new Species of Bat. 



— to which I shall annex a more detailed description, and a 



table of dimensions. 



V. auriculis ovatis, marginibus externis sinuatis, caput longitudine 

 sequantibus ; trago dimidio breviore, margine interno recto, ex- 

 terno subarcuato ante apicem emarginato ; patagio interfemorali 

 subtus punctis, hie illic sparsis, setigeris. 



In the form of the head and in its general physiognomy, 

 this bat resembles the V, mystacinus more than any other of 

 our British species. The snout is short, but moderately at- 

 tenuated, and slightly emarginate at the tip between the nos- 

 trils. The forehead appears elevated from the erect fur on 

 that part. The face and upper part of the muzzle are hairy. 

 There is some indication of a moustache on the upper lip, 

 with longer hairs interspersed : there are also a few long hairs 

 on the chin. The ears are about the length of the head*, 

 widely separate, oval, obtuse at the extremity, bending out- 

 wards : their inner margin convex, and folded back near the 

 base ; the outer margin with a moderately deep sinus about 

 half-way down, but immediately beneath the sinus expanding 

 into a rounded lobe. On the whole the auricle very much 

 resembles that of the V, mystacinus and V. emarginatus, but it 

 is not so deeply notched. The tragus is of a very peculiar form, 

 and unlike that of any other species. It is not quite half the 

 length of the auricle, if this last be measured in front ; but 

 rather more than half if measured behind : its greatest breadth 

 is not quite one third of its own length : the inner margin is 

 perfectly straight ; the outer one arcuate, with a small but 

 rather deep notch a little below the tip which is rounded; 

 there is a somewhat similar notch at bottom, and beneath it a 

 projecting lobe, but these last may also be observed, though 

 not so distinctly, in V. mystacinus : — were it not for the 

 upper notch and rounded apex, the form of the tragus would 

 be nearly that of a small segment of a circle, the broadest part 

 being in the middle. The flying and interfemoral membranes 

 are naked and moderately ample ; the latter without any 

 transverse ciliated lines, but dotted irregularly on the under 

 surface with some minute white glands, from each of which 



♦ Perhaps a little shorler; but the specimen being stuffed, the exact 

 length of the head cannot be determined. 



