34 CHEIROPTERA. 



throughout France and Germany. Not very plentiful in 

 Eussia, and only met with in the more temperate parts of 

 that country (Pallas). Common in Silesia, Gallicia, Car- 

 niola, Italy, Sicily, Spain, Denmark, and Greece. 



Vespertilio brevimanus. 



Plecotus brevimanus, Buon. Faun. Ital. (figiu-ed) ; Bell, Brit. Quad. 

 Lesser Long-eared Bat, Jenyns, Brit. Vertebr. ; Bell, I. c. 



Description. — Like V, auritus in general appearance. 

 Ears shorter with respect to the head, and rather nar- 

 rower at the extremity; tragus much larger; tail the 

 length of the fore-arm. The colour of the fur above much 

 darker than on the under parts of the body, whereas in 

 V. auritus there is but little difference in this respect. 

 The hairs also are of the same colour throughout their entire 

 length, not darker at their bases, as in the last species. 



The dimensions given by Jenyns are as follows : — head 

 and body, 1 inch 6 lines ; head, 7 lines ; tail, 1 inch 2 

 lines ; ears, 1 inch ; tragus, 5^ lines ; breadth of the ears, 



5 lines ; of the tragus, 2 lines ; length of the fore-arm, 

 1 inch 2 lines ; thumb, 3 lines ; extent of wings, 6 inches 



6 lines. 



An individual found in Sicily by the Prince of Musig- 

 nano, was not smaller than V. auritus, as observed by that 

 author, w^ho gives the follo^^ing dimensions in his ' Fauna 

 Italica :' — head and body, 1 inch 7 lines ; head, 8 lines ; 

 tail, 1 inch 8 lines ; ears, 1 inch 5 lines ; fore-arm, 1 inch 

 5 lines ; thumb, 3 lines ; extent of wings, 9 inches 6 lines. 



Found as yet only in England, where one was dis- 

 covered in Cambridgeshire by the Eev. L. Jenyns in a 

 ^villow, and in Sicily, as mentioned above. 



Its specific distinctness from the preceding appears ex- 

 ceedingly doubtful. 



