BARBASTELLA 



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Genus BARBASTELLA Gray. 



1821. Barbastella Gray, London Med. Repos., xv, p. .300, April 1, 1821. 



1825. Barbastdlns Gray, Zool. Journ., ii, p. 243, July, 1825. 



1839. Synotus Keyserling and Blasius, Wiegmann's Archiv fiir Naturgescb., 



1889, I, p. -305. 

 1857. Synofiis Blasius, Saugethiere Deutschlands, p. 42. 

 1878. Synotus Dobson, Catal. Cbiropt. Brit. Mus., p. 175. 

 1897. Barbastella Miller, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., 6th ser., xx, p. 375, 



October, 1897. 

 1907. Barbastella Miller, Families and Genera of Bats, p. 223, June 29, 



1907. 



Type species. — VespertiUo harhasteUiis Bchreber. 



Geographical distribution. — ^Northern Africa ; central and 

 southern Europe ; west-central Asia to the Himalayas. 



Characters. — Dental formula : i '^J, c ^~, pm '—, m || = 34. 

 Skull with rather long, rounded brain-case and weak rostrum, the 

 upper surface of which is occupied by a shallow, flattened-concave 

 area extending from nares to faintly developed supraorbital 

 ridges ; auditory bullaj not specially enlarged. Ears broad and 

 short (laid forward they reach slightly beyond tip of muzzle), 

 joined across forehead ; nostrils opening upward and outward 

 on a flat median space between two high lateral swellings and 

 behind a prominent median pad. 



Bemarhs. — The short broad ears joined together across fore- 

 head distinguish this genus from the other European membei-s of 

 the family Vespertilionidse. Two species are known, one peculiar 

 to the Himalayan region, the other occurring in Europe. 



BARBASTELLA BARBASTELLUS Schreber. 



1774. VespertiUo barbastellus Schreber, Siiugtbiere, I, pi. lv (description, i, 



p. 168, under name: Das Kurzmaul). Based primarily on "La 



Barbastelle " of Daubenton, Hist. Acad. Royale des Sci., Paris, 



1759, p. 377. 1765. 

 1776. VespertiUo barbastelle P. L. S. Miiller, Natursyst. Suppl. u. Regist.- 



Band, p. 17 (Burgundy). 

 18.36. Barbastellus daubentonii Bell, Hist. Brit. Quadr., pt. i, p. 63 



(Burgundy ; based primarily on Daubenton). 

 1838. Barbastellus communis Gray, j\Iag. Zool. and Bot., ii, p. 495, 



February, 1838 (Renaming of barbastellus). 

 1857. Synotus barbastellus Blasius, Saugethiere Deutschlands, p. 43. 

 1878. Synotus barbastellus Dobson, Catal. Cbiropt. Brit. Mus., p. 176. 

 1897. Barbastella barbastellus Miller, Ann. and IMag. Nat. Hist., Gth sor., 



XX, p. 385, October, 1897. 

 1910. Barbastella barbastellus Trouessart, Faune Mamm. d'Europe, p. 11. 



Type locality. — Burgundy, France. 



Geographical distribution. — Central and soutliern Europe, 



