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shire, England : head and body, 44 ; tail, 32 ; tibia, 10-4; foot, 

 6; forearm, 30-4; thumb, 4*4; third finger, 52 ; fifth finger, 

 38. Two adult males from Sorrento, Italy : head and body, 42 

 and 43 ; tail, 29 and 32 ; tibia, 10 -8 and 10 ; foot, 5-8 and 6-2 ; 

 forearm, 30-4 and 31 ; thumb, 4-8 and 4-2; third finger, 53 

 and 53; fifth finger, 39 and 38 j ear from meatus, 11 -4 and 

 11-4; width of ear, 8*2 and 8-2. Two adult females from the 

 same locality : head and body, 39 and 40 ; tail 32 and 33 ; tibia, 

 10-8 and 10-6 ; foot, 6 and 6 ; forearm, 32 and 30-2 ; thumb, 

 5 and 4*4 ; third finger, 58 and 52 ; fifth finger, 41-6 and 40 ; 

 ear from meatus, 12 and 11 '2 ; width of ear, 8-4 and 8. Adult 

 female from Burgos, Spain, and adult female from Ciudad Real, 

 Spain : head and body, 49 and 39 ; tail, 31 and 30 ; tibia, 10*6 

 and 9*6 ; foot, 4*8 and 5-6 ; forearm, 32 and 28-8 ; thumb, 5 

 and 4 ■ 6 ; third finger, 57 • 6 and 51 ; fifth finger, 42 and 38 ; ear 

 from meatus, 10*4 and 10*4. Extremes of twenty males from 

 Florence, Italy : head and body, 33-38 ; tail, 26-31 ; tibia, 9'2- 

 9 • 6 ; foot, 5 ■ 0-5 • 2 ; forearm, 27 • 6-30 ; thumb, 5 • 0-5 • ; third 

 finger, 49-53 ; fifth finger, 34 • 6-40. For cranial measurements 

 see Table, p. 210. 



Specimens exmnined. — Two hundred and seventy -uine, from the following 

 localities : — 



Ireland : Co. Longford, 1 ; Co. Antrim, 1. 



England : Alnwick, Northumberland, 1 ; Bowdon, Cheshire, 1 ; Great 

 Grimsby, Lincolnshire, 1 ; Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, 1 (U.S.N.M.) ; 

 Tring, Hertfordshire, 4 : Lilford, Northamptonshire, 2 ; Aberia, Merioneth- 

 shire, 1 ; Chelmsford, Essex, 2 ; London, 1 ; Wimbledon, Surrey, 1 ; Twig- 

 worth, Gloucestershire, 1 ; New Forest, Hampshire, 1 ; Netley, Hamp- 

 shire, 1 ; Loddiswell, Devonshire, 1. 



Sweden : Upsala, 6. 



Denmaek : Hillerod, Zealand, 1. 



Prance : Boulogne -sur-Mer, Pas-de-Calais, 2 ; Etupes, Doubs, 1 

 (Mottaz) ; Nimes, Gard, 3 (Mottaz and Nimes, the last wrongly marked 

 type of nigrans Crespon) ; St. Genies, Gard, 1 (Mottaz) ; Marseilles, 1 

 (U.S.N.M.) 



Germany : Bonn, 4 ; Ingelheim, Rheinhessen, 1 ; Magdeburg, Saxony, 1 ; 

 Berlin, 1 ; Rudolstadt, Bavaria, 3 ; Niesky, Silesia, 1. 



Austria-Hungary : Transylvania, 1 ; Zara, Dalmatia, 1. 



Switzerland : Geneva, 15 (Mottaz) ; Buchillon, Vaud, 4 (Mottaz) ; 

 Morat, Fribourg, 1 (Mottaz) ; Neuchatel, 1 (Mottaz) ; Cortivallo, Ticino, 

 1 (U.S.N.M.) ; Mt. San Salvatore, Ticino, 13 (U.S.N.M.). 



Italy: Campiglio, Tirol, 1; near Genoa, 10 (U.S.N.M. and Genoa); 

 Isola Giglio, 2 (Genoa) ; Florence, 103 (U.S.N.M. and Mottaz) ; Rome, 2 

 (U.S.N.M.); Sorrento, 21 (U.S.N.M.); Mondulo, Sicily, 1 (U.S.N.M.); 

 Palermo, Sicily, 1 (U.S.N.M.) ; Sicily, no exact locality, 1 ; Ustica Island, 1 

 (U.S.N.M.). 



Sardinia : Cagliari, 17 (B.M. and Genoa) ; no exact locality, 2. 



Greece : Athens, 1 (U.S.N.M.) ; Tatoi, near Athens, 11 ; Kephissia, 

 near Athens, 4. 



Spain : Villalba, Lugo, 1 ; Burgos, 3 ; Silos, Burgos, 2 ; La Granja, 

 Segovia, 4 ; Ciudad Real, Madrid, 2 ; Granada, 1 ; Seville, 1 ; Alcala, near 

 Seville, 1. 



Remarks. — Pipistrellus plpistrellus is the smallest as well as 

 one of the commonest and most generally distributed of European 



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