238 CHIROPTERA 



Genus VESPERTILIO LinnEeus. 



1758. Vespertilio Linnseus, Syst. Nat., i, lOtb ed., p. 31 (nmriims by 



tautonymy). 

 1839. Vesperugo Keyserliug and Blasius, Wiegmann's Archiv fiir Natur- 



gesch., 1839, i, p. 312 (part). 

 1839. Vesperiis Keyserling and Blasius, Wiegmann's Archiv fiir Naturgesch., 



1839, I, p. 313. Sub-genus of Vesperugo (part). 



1856. Meteorus Kolenati, Allgem. deutscbe Naturbist. Zeitung, Dresden, 



neue Folge, ii, p. 131 (part). 



1857. Vesperus, misprinted Vesperugo Blasius, Saugetbiere Deutscblands, 



p. 69 (Sub-genus of Vesperugo). 

 1863. '^ Aristippe Kolenati, Beitrage zur Kenntniss der Pbtbiriomyiarien, 



Petersburg, 1863" (part). 

 1872. Marsipolxmus Peters, Monatsber. k. preuss. Akad. Wissenscb., 



Berlin, p. 260 (Sub-genus of Vesperugo for albigularis = murinus). 

 1878. Vesperus Dobson, Catal. Cbiropt. Brit. Mus., p. 183. Sub-genus of 



Vesperugo (part). 

 1897. Vespertilio Miller, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., Ctb ser., xx, p. 384, 



October, 1897 (part). 

 1900. Vespertilio Mebely, Monogr. Cbiropt. Hungariaj, p. 219 (part). 

 1907. Vespertilio Miller, Families and Genera of Bats, p. 209, June 29, 1907. 



Type species. — Vespertilio 'murinus Linn^^^us. 



Geograpliical distribution. — Forested northern portion of the 

 Paltearctic region from the Atlantic coast eastward through 

 Continental Asia. 



Characters. — Like Eptesicus, but ear much shortened and 

 broadened, rostrum flattened above, with deep concavity on 

 each side between nares and lachrymal region ; nares very large, 

 extending back nearly half way to interorbital constriction, and 

 palatal emargination extended so far laterally that its width is 

 distinctly greater than its depth. 



Remarlcs. — The genus Vespertilio as now restricted contains 

 only two species, V. murinus Linnaeus, and V. superans Thomas, 

 the former European, the latter Asiatic. The form of the skull 

 .suggests in certain respects that of Nyctalus, and in others the 

 North American Lasionj/cteris. 



VESPERTILIO MURINUS Linn;eus. 



1758. [Vespertilio] murinus Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., i, 10th ed., p. 32 (Sweden). 



1819. Vespertilio discolor Kuhl, Ann. Wetterau. Gesellsch. Naturk., iv 

 (= Neue Ann., i), pt. 2, p. 187 (Vienna, Austria). 



1857. Vesperugo discolor Blasius, Saugetbiere Deutscblands, p. 73. 



1872. Vesperus [Marsipolsemus) albigularis Peters, Monatsber. k. preuss. 

 Akad. Wissenscb., Berlin, p. 260 (Type supposed to have been 

 taken in Mexico ; for its reference to this species see Mebely, 

 Monogr. Cbiropt. HungariEe, pp. 229, 341, 1900). 



1878. Vesperugo discolor Dobson, Catal. Cbiropt. Brit. Mus., p. 204. 



1885. Vesperus siculus Daday, Orvos-Termeszettudomduyi Erteseto, Kolozs- 

 var, X, p. 275 (Homorod-Almas cave, Hungary). See Mebely, 

 Monogr. Cbiropt. Hungarise, pp. 229, 346, 1900. 



