MYOTIS 109 



Combined length of tibia and foot less than 



25 mm. ; condylobasal length of skull 



14 • to 14 • 6 mm. ; ear narrow, its width 



about 10 mm. ; tragus conspicuously 



more than half as high as conch M. nattcrcri, p. 174. 



Combined length of tibia and foot about 



30 mm. ; condylobasal length of skull 



16 to 17 mm. ; ear broad, its width about 



14 mm. ; tragus scarcely half as high as 



conch M. bechsteinii, ]^. 179. 



MYOTIS MYSTACINUS Kuhl. 



1819. Vcs^xrtiiio mystacinus Kuhl, Ann. Wetterau. Gesellsch. Naturk., iv 



(= Neue Ann., i), pt. 2, p. 202. 

 1821. Vespertilio collaris Schinz, Das Thierreich von Cuvier, i, p. 177 



(Mt. Blanc, Haute-Savoie, France). 

 1834. Tcs2iertilio humcmlis Baillon, M^m. Soc. Royale d'Emulatiou 



d' Abbeville, 1833, p. 50 (Abbeville, Somme, France). 

 1837. Vespertilio schinzii Brehm, Ornis, Heft iii, p. 27 (Renthendorf, 



Thiiringen, Germany). 

 1843. V[espcrtilio] schrankii Wagner, Wiegmann's Archiv fiir Naturgesch., 



IX, Bd. II, p. 25 (Munich, Germany? See Fitzinger, Sitzungsber. 



kais, Akad. Wissensoh. Wien, Math.-Naturwiss. Classe, lxii, pt. 1, 



p. 219, 1871). 

 1857. Vespertilio mystacinus Blasius, Saugethiere Deutschlands, p. 90. 

 1863. [Brachyottis mystacinus'] var. nigricans Koch, Jahrb. des Vereins fiir 



Naturkunde im Herzogthum Nassau, xviii, p. 444 (Wiesbaden, 



Nassau, Germany). 

 1863. [Brachyotiis mystacinus'] var. rufofuscus Koch, Jahrb. dcs Vereins 



fiir Naturkunde im Herzogthum Nassau, xviii, p. 444 (Wiesbaden, 



Nassau, Germany). 

 18G3. [Bruchyotus mystacinus] var. aureus Koch, Jahrb. des Vereins fiir 



Naturkunde im Herzogthum Nassau, xviii, p. 445 (Breisgau, 



Germany). 

 1869. [Vespertilio mystacinus] var. nigricans Fatio, Faune Vert. Suisse, 



I, p. 92 (Switzerland). Not of Koch, 1863. 

 1869. IVespertilio] lugubris Fatio, Faune Vert. Suisse, i, p. 93 (Alternative 



for nigricans Fatio). 

 1871. Vesjwrtilio mystacinus, nigro-fuscus Fitzinger, Sitzungsber. kais. 



Akad. Wisseusch. Wien, jNIath.-Naturwiss. Classe, LXii, pt. 1, 



p. 217 (Renaming of V. schinzii Brehm). 

 1878. Vespertilio mystacinus Dobsou, Catal. Chiropt. Brit. Mas., p. 314. 

 1900. Myotis mystacinus M6hely, Monogr. Chiropt. Hungarise, p. 200. 

 1910. Myotis mystacinus Trouessart, Faune Mamm. d'Europe, p. 33. 



Geoffra^hical distribution. — Entire Continent of Europe north 

 to about the hmit.s of tree g!-owth ; west to Irehind ; ea.st into 

 Asia. 



Diagnosis. — Smalle.st species of European Myotis (forearm 

 about 34 mm., longest finger about 60 mm., condylobasal length 

 of skull 12'() to 13 "2 mm.) : ear moderately long, extending 1 to 

 2 mm. beyond tip of muzzle when laid forward, its posterior 

 border with shallow incons})icuous emargination ; foot about half 

 as long as tibia ; wing membrane extending to ba.se of outer 

 toe ; last caudal vertebra free. 



