NYCTINOMUS 



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fibout forty species, two-thirds of wliich are peculiar to the Old 

 World, one of them occurring in the Mediterranean region of 

 Europe. 



NYCTINOMUS TENIOTIS llalinesque. 



1814. Ccphalotes teniotis Bafinesquo, Pr6c. des D6couv. Somiol., p. 12 (Sicily). 

 1825. Dino2)s ccstoni Savi, N. Giom. de' Letterati, Pisa, x, p. 235 (Pisa, Italy). 

 1810. Dysopcs savii Schinz, Europ. Fauna, I, p. 5 (Substitute for ccstoni). 

 1871. [Dysopcs cestonii] var. nifjrogrisciis Schneider, Neue Denkschr. 



Schweiz. Gesellsch. Naturwiss., xxiv, p. 5 (articles separately 



paged). Basel, Switzerland. 

 1877. Nyctinomus cesionii Dobson, Catal. Chiropt. Brit. Mus., p. 423. 

 1891. Nyctinomus ttenioiis Thomas, Proc. Zool. Soc., London, p. 182. 

 1897. [Dysopcs} viidas Schulze, Abh. Ges. Nat. iv, No. 10, p. 23 (Substitute 



for cestoni). Not of Sundevall, 1842. 

 1910. Nyctmomus txniotis Trouessart, Paunc Mamm. d'Europe, p. 36. 



Type locality. — Sicily. 



Gcog7-aphical flistrihuiion. — Mediterranean region of Europe 

 and noi'thern Africa. Accidental ? at Basel, Switzerland. 



Diagnosis. — Like the African Nyctinomus segyptiacus but 

 lai'ger, condylobasal length of skull about 23 mm. instead of 

 about 20 mm. ; lower incisor 3-3 instead of 2-2 ; small upper 

 premolar with crown area more than one-half instead of less 

 than one-fifth that of upper incisor. Distinguishable among 

 European bats by the generic characters ; forearm about 60 mm. 



External characters. — Form heavy and robust, the legs short, the 

 feet large, the wings long and narrow, the membranes thick and 

 leathery, the ears very large, sub-orbicular, joined at their anterior 

 bases ; these characters in connection with the thick muscular tail, 

 projecting by at least one- third of its length be3^ond interfemoral 

 membrane, immediately distinguish the animal from all other 

 European bats. Muzzle projecting rather noticeably beyond 

 upper lip, oblicpiely truncate ; nostril pad well defined, wider 

 than high, the sub-circular nostrils opening forward and slightly 

 outward at its outer margin, its surface with very fine reticula- 

 tions and a few coarse wrinkles, glabrous except below, where it 

 is sprinkled with fine hairs, this hairy area continuous with the 

 l)rush-like fringe of i-ecurved blunt hairs along middle of upper 

 lip ; upper margin of pad broadly concave at middle, convex 

 laterally over the nostrils, its edge thickly set with small, laterally 

 compressed horny excrescences, about thirty-five in number, 

 the outermost lying a little above level of middle of nostril ; a 

 row of about ten similar excrescences crosses middle of pad 

 vertically. Upper lip very large and full, marked by manj^ deep 

 ol)li([ue wrinkles, its surface both abo^■e and below rather densely 

 hairy. A small wart on chin just behind level of symphysis. 

 Ear very large, sub-orbicular, the margin with no very decided 

 irregulaiities, though the anterior border usually shows some 

 slight flattening and the posterior border is faintly concave above 



