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bat alive; and, in the event of its dying, to preserve it in spirits. On 

 my return, a week after, I was informed that " Flitty" could not be 

 prevailed on to take any food, and, as a consequence, had died ; it had, 

 however, been carefully deposited in a small bottle of spirits, as di- 

 rected. 



It has been stated that I felt some hesitation at first in positively 

 pronouncing my specimen to be the Lesser Horse-shoe Bat. There were 

 some features in its nasal appendages apparently different from the cha- 

 racters which Jenyns and Bell have assigned to these structures ; but I 

 now feel that the observed differences result from the mode of preserva- 

 tion of the specimens examined by these naturalists ; and I am afraid, 

 as the nasal appendages of my specimen have become contracted, that 

 the following description of them, as well as the drawing herewith sent, 

 will also be faulty. However, I hope to be able to add something to the 

 present knowledge of this species. 



My specimen measures, from the upper margin of the ears to the point 

 of the tail, a little above two inches and a quarter. Its body is clothed 

 with a long, soft, silky fur, of a light ashy-brown colour on the belly, 

 and a dusky gray on the back. The fur is thick on the forehead, and 

 on the cheeks especially, where it forms a pair of well- furnished whiskers : 

 a narrow fringe of bristly hairs, forming a moustache, occupies the mar- 

 ginal portion of the upper lip. The flying membranes are darker than 

 the body, and impressed with oblique bands crossed with very fine li- 

 near puckerings, particularly on the interfemoral portion, where the 

 puckerings become more strongly marked, and not so regularly linear : 

 there are about twenty puckered bands on the interfemoral membrane. 

 The tail is not so long as it is represented in Bell's figure of the species : 

 it appears to extend no further than the wrist of the hind hands. 

 " The prehensile character of the extremity of the tail," observed by- 

 Professor Bell in the pipistrelle, seems also to be a feature of the present 

 species, inasmuch as this part is furnished with a blunt terminal claw : 

 there are five joints in the tail. The eyes, which are with difficulty seen 

 amongst the thick and long fur surrounding them, are small, and situated 

 near the inferior angle of the opening of the ears. 



The ears consist of an anterior and a posterior lobe ; the latter is 

 half an inch long, having its upper margin rounded, and tapering to a 

 point turned outwards : the outer margin is uni-sinuated, and marked 

 with a few slight or obsolete sulci, which run transversely to nearly the 



