58 VESPERTILIONID.E— NYCTALUS 



THE NOCTULE, OR GREAT BAT 



NYCTA L US NOCTUL A (Schreber). 



1760. La Noctule, L. J. M. Daubenton in E. L. le Clerc, Comte de Buffon's Histcire 

 Naiurelle, viii., 128-129, I35-I37j P'- xviii., fig. i ; also Man. de PAcad. Roy. des 

 Set., 380, pi. ii. (r5), fig. i, 1759, published 1765 ; described from France. 



1775. Vespertilio noctula, J. C. D. von Schreber, Die Sdugthiere, i., pi. lii., 

 166-167, evidently naming Daubenton's La Noctule ; Bingley ; Pennant ; Donovan ; 

 Fleming ; Jenyns ; Bell (ed. i) ; Clermont ; Newman. 



1776. Vespertilio lardarius, P. L. S. Miiller, Natursystems Suppletnents und 

 Register Band, 15, naming Schreber's Speckmaus, i.e. V. NOCTULA, as above. 



1776. Great Bat, Thomas Pennant, British Zoology (ed. 4), i., 128, pi. xiii., No. 38. 

 1789. Vespertilio altivolans, Gilbert White, Selborne, letter xxxvi. to Thomas 

 Pennant, September 1771 ; described from Selborne, England. 



1789. Vespertilio magnus, John Berkenhout, Synopsis of the Natural History of 

 Great Britain and Ireland, ii., naming Pennant's Great Bat. 



1806. Vespertilio serotinus, Isidore Geofiroy, Ann. du Mus. d'Hist. Nat., viii., 

 194, pi. 46, fig. I ; transference of name in error. 



[1812. Vespertilio auriculatus, John Walker, Essays o?i Natural History, 

 472 ; described from Edinburgh, Scotland, but only doubtfully referable to 

 N. noctula.'] 



18 16. Vespertilio major, W. E. Leach, Systematic Catalogue of the Specimens of the 

 Indigenous Mammalia and Birds that are Preserved ift the British Museum, etc. 

 (London), 5 ; renaming V. noctula, but without description. 



1 819. Vespertilio proterus, Heinrich Kuhl, Ann. der Wetterauische Gesellschaft 

 fiir die gesamjnte Naturkunde, iv., 41 ; renaming Daubenton's La Noctule. 



1826. Vespertilio laicopterus, J. E. Gray, Zoological Journal, ii., 109 ; included 

 as a synonym of Vespertilio noctula; perhaps a misprint for lasiopterus. 



1827. Vespertilio ferrugineus, C. L. Brehm, Ornis (Jena), iii., 26 ; described 

 from Jena, Germany. 



1829. Pterygistes proterus, Jakob Kaup, System der Europdischen Thierwelt, 



i., TOO. 



1838. SCOTOPHILUS NOCTULA, J. E. Gray, Mag. Zool. and Bot., 497 ; MacGillivray, 

 Bell (ed. 2). 



1839. Vesperugo noctula, a. Graf von Keyserling and J. H. Blasius, Wiegmann's 

 Archiv filr Naturgeschichte, i., 317 ; Blasius ; Fatio ; Dobson ; Harting, Zoologist, 

 1887, pi. iii., 167-171 ; Blanford ; Woodward and Sherborn ; Lydekker ; Millais, 

 pi. vii. 



1842. NOCTULINIA proterus, J. E. Gray, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., Dec, 258, 

 1845. NOCTULINIA NOCTULA, Edward Blyth, Journ. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, xiv., 340; 

 referring to T. Hutton's Mussooree specimens (see Proc. Zool. Soc, London, 1872, 

 707); T. C. Jerdon, Mammals of India, 36, 1867; Harrison Allen, Proc. U.S. 

 National Museum, xvi., 30, footnote, 1893 (diagnosis of genus). 



1856. Panugo NOCTULA, F. A. Kolenati, Allgemeine deutsche Naturhist. Zeitung 

 (Dresden), Neue Folge, ii., 131, 172-174. 



