VESPERTILIO. 



Measurements. 



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List of Specimens. 



No specimeas have reached us from any other locality. 



Vespertilio liicifugus, Leconte. 



The Blunt-nosed Bat. 

 Fig. 51. Fig. 52. 



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Vespertilio lucifugus, Leconte, Cuv. An. Kingdom (McMurtrie ed.) I, App. 



1831, 431.— Ib. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 1855, 43G. 

 Vespertilio brevirostris, Max Prince Wied, Verzeicli. beobach. Saug. N. A. 



1860, 19. 



Description. — Head rather large, somewhat flattish ; lips 

 moderately whiskered ; snout more obtuse than in other species 

 of Vespertilio ; nostrils sub-lateral, some distance from free border 

 of upper lip ; ears narrow, blunt at tip, slightly emarginated on 

 outer side : the internal basal lobe produced, rounded and some- 

 what obtuse, not thicker than other portions of ear. Tragus 

 half as high as auricle, mostly blunt, unfrequently abruptly acu- 

 minate. Mental space well defined. Feet large ; interfemoral 

 membrane of moderate size ; termination of calcaneum with inter- 

 femoral somewhat abrupt ; the point of tail exserted. 



