MYOTIS 193 



1801. Vespertilio viyotis Bechstein, Gemeinn. Naturgesch. Deutschl., i, 



2ud ed., p. 1164 (Described but not named in 1st ed., 1789, x'. 1G4) 



Thiiriugen, Germany. 

 1827. Vespertilio subvmrinus Brehm, Ornis, Heft iii, p. 24 (Renthendorf, 



Tliiiringcn, Germany). 

 1844. V[espertilio] latipinnis Crespon, Faune Meridionale, i, p. 17 (Near 



Nimes, Gard, France). 

 1857. Vespertilio murinus Blasius, Saugethiere Deutschlands, p. 82 (Not of 



Linnteus, 1758). 

 1863. [Myotus tnurinus] var. typus Koch, Jahrb. des Vereins fur Natur- 



liunde ini Herzogthum Nassau, xviii, p. 415 (Wiesbaden, Nassau, 



Germany). 

 1863. [Myotus vmriuus] var. alpinus Koch, Jahrb. des Vereins fiir Natur- 



kunde im Herzogthum Nassau, xviii, p. 415 (St. Gothard, Uri, 



Switzerland). 

 1878. Vespertilio murinus Dobson, Catal. Chiropt. Brit. ]\Ius., p. 309 (Not 



of Linnseus, 1758). 

 1886. Myotis murina var. spelxa Bielz, Verhandl. u. Mittheilungen des 



Siebenbiirgischen Vereins fiir Naturwissensch. in Hermannstadt, 



XXXVI, p. 83 (Homorod-Almas cave, Hungai-y). 

 1897. Myotis myotis Miller, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., 6th ser., xx, p. 383, 



October, 1897. 



1909. Myotis myosoiis Miller, Ann. Mus. Zool. R. Univ. Napoli, N.S., iii, 



No. 3, p. 1, April 26, 1909. 



1910. Myotis myotis and M. m. spelasa Trouessart, Fauna Mamm. d'Europe, 



p. 32. 



Type locality. — Thliringen, Germany. 



Geographical distribution. — Central and southern Continental 

 Europe, west to Portugal, north to southern Sweden, eastward 

 into Asia. One record of its occurrence in England."' 



Diagnosis. — Largest species of European Myotis (forearm, 

 57 to 64 mm.; longest linger, 100 to 110 mm.; condylobasal 

 length of skull, 22 to 23 '6 mm.) ; form heavy, membranes thick 

 and leathery ; ear moderately long, extending about 5 mm. 

 beyond tip of muzzle when laid forward, its posterior margin 

 scarcely or not emarginate above middle ; foot slightly more than 

 half as long as tibia ; wing membrane extending to base of 

 outer toe. 



External characters. — Although one of the largest European 

 bats Myotis myotis does not differ conspicuously in form from 

 the small M. mystacinus, except that its tail and legs are relatively 

 shorter. The general build is not I'emarkably heavy as compared 

 with other European species of approximately the same size, but 

 the ears and membranes are rather thick and leathery. Ear 

 moderately long, extending about 5 mm. beyond nostril when 

 laid forward ; anterior mai'gin moderately convex from base 

 nearly to rather narrowly rounded-off tip ; posterior border wath 

 shallow ill-defined concavity above ; antitragus low and long, 

 marked off posteriorly by a well-deHned notch and not continuous 

 with posterior border of conch ; tragus about half as high as 



* Bell, Hist. British Quadrupeds, p. 88, 1836 : "But in England it . . . 

 has hitherto only been taken in the gardens of the British Museum." 



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