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CHIROPTERA 



columnar thickening of posterior base of protocone ; paracone 

 lower and smaller than metacone, the contrast unusually notice- 

 able ; styles and commissures well developed, the VV-p^ttern 

 normal ; m? with crown area less than half that of m^, its longi- 

 tudinal diameter through metacone much less than half transverse 

 diameter, the mesostyle, metacone, and second and thii'd com- 

 missures greatly reduced, though not sufficiently to lose their 

 identity. Lower molars with no special peculiarities ; angles in 

 commissures between outer and inner cusps rather wide and 

 shallow, especially that between protoconid and metaconid ; area 

 of second V in '"3 scarcely half that of first. 



Measurements.— AA\i\t female from Herrnhut, Saxony : head 

 and body, 62 ; tail, 54 (its free tip, 6-6) ; tibia, 20 ; foot, 10-4 ; 

 forearm, 50-4; thumb, 9 ; third finger, 84 : fifth finger, 63; ear 

 from meatus, 18; width of ear, 15. Adult male from Barsac, 

 Gironde, France : head and body, 69 ; tail, 54 (free tip, 7 • 6) ; 

 tibia, 22 ; foot, 11 "4 ; forearm, 51 ; thumb, 9 ; third finger, 91 ; 

 fifth finger, 67 ; ear from meatus, 18*4 ; width of ear, 16. Adult 

 male and female from Seville, Spain : head and body, 67 and 64 ; 

 tail, 46 and 51 ; tibia, 21*6 and 22-4 ; foot, 11 and 10-4 ; fore- 

 arm, 49 and 50 ; thumb, 9 • 2 and 8 • 4 ; third finger, 89 and 90 ; 

 fifth finger, 64 and 68; ear from meatus, 17*6 and 18. Adult 

 male and female from Rome, Italy : head and body, 72 and 73 ; 

 tail, 54 and 54 ; tibia, 21-4 and 21 ; foot, 11 and 11 '4 ; fore- 

 arm, 51-6 and 53 ; thumb, 9 • 6 and 9*8; third finger, 91 and 92 ; 

 fifth finger, 66 and 67 ; ear from meatus, 19 and 19 ; width of 

 ear, 15 '6 and 15*4. For cranial measurements see Table, 

 p. 232. 



Specimens examined. — Seventy-eight, from the following localities: — 



England: Kenley, Surrey, 1 ; Hawkhurst, Kent, 1; Whitstable, Kent, 2 ; 

 Wingham, Dover, Kent, 1 ; Yalding, Kent, 5 (B.M. and U.S.N.M.) ; Isle 

 of Wight, 5. 



Prance : Barsac, Gironde, 1 (U.S.N.M.) ; near Nimes, Gard, 2 (Nimes ; 

 type of incisivus Crespon, and a specimen wrongly marked type of palustris 

 Crespon). 



Germany: Ingelheim, Rheinhessen, 2; Magdeburg, Saxony, 2 (B.M. 

 and U.S.N.M.) ; Herrnhut, Saxony, 1 (U.S.N.M.) ; Strass, near Burgheim, 

 Bavaria, 3; Bavaria, no exact locality, 2 (U.S.N.M.) ; Tubingen, Silesia, 2. 



Austria-Hungary : Moravia, 1 ; Csallokoz-Somorja, Pressburg, Hun- 

 gary, 1 ; Budapest, Hungary, 2 ; Transylvania, 5 ; Zara, Dalmatia, 2. 



RouMANiA : Bustenari, Prahova, 3. 



Greece: Patras, 14; near Athens, 1. 



Italy : Siena, 3 (B.M. and U.S.N.M.) ; Florence, 2 (B.M. and U.S.N.M.) ; 

 Vallombrosa,! (U.S.N.M.); Volterra, 1 (U.S.N.M.); Rome, 3 ; SanMartino 

 al Cimino, Rome, 1 (Genoa) ; Ustica Island, Sicily, 1 (U.S.N.M.). 



Sardinia : Cagliari, 2 (Genoa). 



SrAiN : Pajares, Leon, 1 ; Seville, 3 ; Muchamiel, Alicante, 1 (Madrid ; 

 type of boscai Cabrera). 



Bemarks. — Among the bats of Europe this species is recogniz- 

 able by its rather large size, noticeable free tip to the tail, 

 moderately long, narrow ear, and straight, erect tragus. With 

 the material now available for study it seems impossible to 



