238 CHIROPTERA 



Genus VESPERTILIO Linnaeus. 



1758. Vespertilio Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., i, 10th ed., p. 31 (murinus by 



tautonymy). 

 1839. Vesperugo Keyserling and Blasius, Wiegmann's Archiv fur Natur- 



gesch., 1839, i, p. 312 (part). 

 1839. Vesperus Keyserling and Blasius, Wiegmann's Archiv fiir Naturgesch., 



1839, I, p. 313. Sub-genus of Vesperugo (part). 



1856. Meteorus Kolenati, Allgem. deutsche Naturhist. Zeituug, Dresden, 



neue Folge, ir, p. 131 (part). 



1857. Vesperus, misprinted Vesperugo Blasius, Saugethiere Deutschlands, 



p. 69 (Sub-genus of Vesperugo). 

 1863. '■^ Aristippe Kolenati, Beitrage zur Kenntniss der Phthiriomyiarien, 



Petersburg, 1863" (jDart). 

 1872. Marsipolsemus Peters, Monatsber. k. preuss. Akad. Wisseusch., 



Berlin, p. 260 (Sub-genus of Vesperugo for alhigularis — inurinus). 

 1878. Vesperus Dobson, Catal. Chiropt. Brit. Mus., p. 183. Sub-genus of 



Vesperugo (part). 

 1897. Vespertilio Miller, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., 6th ser., xx, p. 384, 



October, 1897 (part). 

 1900. Vespertilio Mehely, Monogr. Chiropt. Hungarias, p. 219 (part). 

 1907. Vespertilio Miller, Families and Genera of Bats, p. 209, June 29, 1907. 



Type species. — Vespertilio murinus Linnasus. 



Geographical distribution. — Forested northern portion of the 

 Palsearctic region from the Atlantic coast eastward through 

 Continental Asia. 



Characters. — Like Eptesicus, but ear much shortened and 

 broadened, rostrum flattened above, with deep concavity on 

 each side between nares and lachrymal region ; nares very large, 

 extending back nearly half way to interorbital constriction, and 

 palatal emargination extended so far laterally that its width is 

 distinctly greater than its depth. 



Hemarks. — The genus Vespertilio as now restricted contains 

 only two species, V. inurinus Linnaeus, and V. superans Thomas, 

 the former European, the latter Asiatic. The form of the skull 

 suggests in certain respects that of Nyctalus, and in others the 

 North American Lasionycteris. 



VESPERTILIO MURINUS Linngeus. 



1758. IVespertilio] rmirinus Linnseus, Syst. Nat., i, 10th ed., p. 32 (Sweden). 



1819. Vespertilio discolor Kuhl, Ann. Wetterau. Gesellsch. Naturk., iv 

 (= Neue Ann., i), pt. 2, p. 187 (Vienna, Austria). 



1857. Vesperugo discolor Blasius, Saugethiere Deutschlands, p. 73. 



1872. Vesperus [Marsipolmmus) alhigularis Peters, Monatsber. k. preuss. 

 Akad. Wissensch., Berlin, p. 260 (Type supposed to have been 

 taken in Mexico ; for its reference to this species see M6hely, 

 Monogr. Chiropt. Hungariae, pp. 229, 341, 1900). 



1878. Vesperugo discolor Dobson, Catal. Chiropt. Brit. Mus., p. 204. 



1885. Vesperus siculus Daday, Orvos-Termeszettudomdnyi Erteseto, Kolozs- 

 var, X, p. 275 (Homorod-Almas cave, Hungary). See Mehely, 

 Monogr. Chiropt. Hungarise, pp. 229, 346, 1900. 



