MINIOPTERUS 



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di,stini,'uisli tliis <((!nus among tlie inenil)ers of the Eui'opefiii fauna. 

 About a dozen forms have been described, one of which occurs 

 in soutliern Europe. 



MINIOPTERUS SCHREIBERSII Kulil. 



1819. Vcspcrtilio schrcibcisii Kuhl, Ann. Wetterau. Gesollsch. Naturk., iv 

 (= Neue Ann., i), pt. 2, p. 185 (Hungary). 



1837. Vcspcrtilio ursinii Bonaparte, Iconogr. Faun. Ital., i, fasc. xxi 

 (Monto Corno, Ascoli, Italy). Typo in British Museum. 



18-11. Vesjxriilio orsinii Temminck, Monogr. do Mamm., ii, p. 179 (modi- 

 fication of ursinii). 



1857. Minioptcrus schrcibcrsii Blasius, Saugethiere Deutschlands, p. 4G. 



1878. Miniopterus schrcibcrsii Dobson, Catal. Chiropt. Brit. Mus., p. 348. 



1910. Minioptcrus schreibcrsi Trouessarfc, Fauiio Mamm. d'Europe, p. 34. 



Type locnlifij. — Kuhnbazer Cave, mountains of soutliern 

 Bannat, Hungary. 



(h'0(jraphic(d distn'hutlon. — Soutliern Europe from the Iberian 

 Peninsula eastward, north to Switzerland and Hungary. Limits 

 of range not known. 



Dia/jnosis. — Charaters as in the genus ; forearm about 

 43 mm. 



Ejctcrnal characters. — General form rather slender, with long 

 tail and legs, wing broad at base but conspicuously tapering at 

 tip, and short ears with a peculiar truncate aspect. Muzzle 

 rather broad, though without conspicuous glandular swellings, 

 its greatest width about ecjual to distance from eve to nostril ; 

 muzzle pad narrow, with slight median emargination, bounded 

 below by a low horizontal ridge which is continuous with projecting 

 inner margin of nostril. Eyelids noticeably glandular-swollen ; 

 a deep horizontal groove in cheek below eye. Ear short, extend- 

 ing about half way from eye to nostril when laid forward, its 

 general aspect difierent from that of any other European bat, 

 owing to the length of the anterior basal lobe, the short, straight 

 anterior border, and the broadly, evenly convex posterior border 

 which joins anterior border in such a manner that there is 

 l)ractically no " tip," the whole anterior border appearing like an 

 oblicjuely, almost artificially truncate extremity ; antitragus low, 

 obscurely marked ofli' from posterior border of conch, practically 

 continuous with lower lip anteriorly ; inner surface of conch 

 slightly rugose, without evident cross ridges ; tragus about half 

 as high as conch, a little curved forward owing to .slight con- 

 cavity of anterior border, the blunt tip and upper half of e.xterior 

 border forming a uniform, rather noticeable convexity, the 

 posterior margin straight below to rudimentary basal lobe ; 

 greatest width of tragus about half anterior border. Wing rather 

 wide basally, the tifth finger exceeding forearm by about one-tifth 

 length of latter, the tip unusually slender and elongate owing to 

 the great length of last bone of third tinger ; third and fourth 



