38 VESPERTILIO A.KOKOMULI. 



see supra) serait seloii M. Burger Komuli ou akahomuli 

 (Vespertiliou noir)". Finally Temmiuck ^) says »le nom 

 japonais ilu V. molosse est aka-homulV 



Every body will agree that the confusion is very great , 

 and is still increased by examining Temminck's types 

 which show that V. akohomuli is not a black bat, but a 

 brownish one ! 



I supposed that the Japanese word komuli signified a 

 bat. My friend Mr. Serrurier, assistant to the Ethnogra- 

 phical Museum , however kindly informed me that the Japa- 

 nese do not pronounce or write the character I, and that 

 they call a bat , Kömori *). The Japanese word ahaki sig- 

 nifying red , is abridged in compounds to aka ; and so akako- 

 mori signifies red bat. In this way it becomes intelligi- 

 ble why the Japanese apply the common term Kömori in 

 designating Temminck's three new described species , and 

 it is also evident that they have not confounded them. 

 Abramusi is nothing, but Abiird-musi '^) signifies at Naga- 

 saki and Miyako shining insect , the name for Blatta orien- 

 talis: perhaps the bat feeds on these insects. 



Temmiuck refers '') in his article on V. abramiis to pi. 

 58 , figs 1 aud 2 (in the Fauna Japonica he quotes pi. 58 , 

 fig. 1) , but in examining that plate we find that these 

 figs 1 and 2 belong to V. délicat , a bat nowhere named 

 in the text. At the head of his description of V. caroli- 

 nensis ^ Temmiuck by mistake indicates the same plate 58 

 fig. 1 , as a figure of that species; and he refers in his 

 article on V. ferrugineus once more to pi. 58. fig. 2 (this 

 must be pi. 59, figs 1 and 2). But who shall point out 

 what Temminck meant by his V. délicat; certainly that 



1) Faunn japonica p. 15. 



2) Kömori . '(^ | 3 ^ , ;» ^^ 4-; 9 . 



3; 1^ Z ^ i^ , Abüra-musi. 



4) MoDOgraphiea de ^tamIaalogie , IT. p. 232. 



PiJotes from tlie Leyden M-usieuni , "Vol. II. 



