VESPERTILIO LIMNOPHILUS. 19 



logiio of Silesian Bats as of not infrequent occiuTence in 

 that province, in towns, and in outhouses in the country. 

 Rare in the Bukovina and Silesia. Blasius finds it in the 

 Alps, Hungary, and the central parts of Eussia. Has been 

 met with in Denmark. 



Vespertilio limuophilus. 



Vespertilio Ihmiophilus, Temm. Monog. vol. ii. p. 176 ; Sciiinz, Europ. 



Faun. i. p. 12. 

 Vespertilio dasycneme, Blasius, Wii'belth. Deutschl. 



Description. — False molars ^ ; second upper false molar 

 hardly visible. Muzzle very short, wide, and blunt, almost 

 entirely hairy, each lip furnished with long diverging bristles 

 or stiff hairs ; ears moderate, perfectly oval, without any 

 lobe or prolongation in front ; tragus short, straight, wide, 

 rounded at tip; tail short, the tip free; wing-membrane 

 springing from the upper joint of the metatarsus, tlius 

 leaving the foot wliolly free; glands of the face large, bright 

 yellow, placed over the eyes on each side of the forehead. 

 Fur soft, silky, of medium length ; upper parts of the body 

 and the greater part of the sides of the neck deep mouse - 

 colour in the male, rather reddish in the female ; the hairs 

 on the parts beneath, the chin, cheeks, and front of the 

 neck, white at the tips, black for the rest of their length, 

 the white tip more or less extended according to age ; ab- 

 domen pure white ; at the insertion of the wings there is 

 an ashy-brown tint. The young of the year are thinly 

 clothed ; fur above dull brown, beneath bluish black, with 

 the tips of the hairs grey ; abdomen whitish ; on several 

 parts of the membranes there are stiff hairs of a pure white. 



Length of head and body, 2 inches 6 lines ; tail, 1 inch 

 6 lines ; fore-arm, 1 inch 7 lines ; extent of wing, 11 inches 

 in adult ; 9 inches in the young of the year. — F. M. 



Flies only late at night, and very swiftly. Frequents the 



