128 VESPERTILIONID^— VESPERTILIO 



aristippe of Bonaparte ; preoccupied by Vesperus of Latreille, 1829, a genus of 



Coleoptera. 

 1 84 1. NOCTULA (sub-genus of Pipistrellus\ C. L., Prince Bonaparte, Fatma Tfalica, 



i., xxi. (under Vespertilio alcythoe) ; based on Vespertilio serotinus of Schreber. 

 1856. Cateorus (sub-genus), F. A. Kolenati, Allgemeine deutsche Naturhist. Zeitiing 



(Dresden), Neue Folge, ii., 131, 162-163 > based on serotinus^ i.e., La Serotine of 



Daubenton. 

 1856. Meteorus (sub-genus), F. A. Kolenati, op. cif., ii., 131, 163-167 ; included 



nilssoni of Blasius, discolor of Kuhl, leucippe, aristippe, and savii, all of Bonaparte ; 



preoccupied by METEORUS of Halliday, 1835, a genus oi Hymenoptera. 

 1858. AmblyOTUS, F. a. Kolenati, Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akad. der 



Wissenschaften (Vienna), xxix. (9), 252 ; based on A. atratiis of Kolenati = Vesperugo 



nilssoni of Keyserling and Blasius. 



1863. "Aristippe, F. A. Kolenati, Beitriige zur Kenntniss der Phtkiriomyiarien, 

 Petersburg, 1863" (thus in Koch, Das Wesentliche der Chiropteren, etc., 471, 473, 

 1863, under Meteorus) ; included V. discolor of Natterer= V. muri)ius of Linnaeus 

 and Vesperugo nilssoni of Keyserling and Blasius. 



1864. SCOTOPHILUS, Harrison Allen, Monograph of the Bats of North America, 28 

 (part). 



1866. Pachyomus, J. E. Gray, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., 90, February ; based on 



Scotophihis pachyojnus of Tomes. 

 1870. Nyctiptenus, L. J. Fitzinger, Sitzungsberichte cit. supra, Ixii. (i), 424; based 



on Vespertilio sviithii of Wagner. 

 1872. MARSlPOLiEMUS, W. Peters, Monatsberichte der Koniglich Akad. der Wissen- 



schafteri (Berlin), 260, a sub-genus of Vesperugo based on Vesperus {M.) albigularis 



of Peters = V. murinus of Linnaeus. 

 1878. Vesperugo, G. E. Dobson, Catalogue of the Chiroptera in the Collection of the 



British Museum, 183 (part) ; included also Nyctalus, Pipistrellus, and others. 

 1892. Adelonycteris, Harrison Allen, Proc. Acad. Nat. Science, 466, Philadelphia 



(December 8, 1891) ; proposed as a substitute for Vesperus. 



Classification and synonymy: — The use of the generic term 

 Vespertilio has been fully explained on pages 50-51. 



M. Mehely uses Rafinesque's name Eptesiciis for the serotiniis- 

 fuscus group, restricting the name Vespe^'tilio to the remainder of 

 the genus as here understood. Mr Thomas has pointed out 

 the objections to this proposal i^Ann. and Mag, Nat. Hist., July 

 1901, 31-32). A more recent arrangement, that of Mr Miller, 

 makes the division between V. murinus as sole representative of 

 Vespertilio, and the remaining species as Eptesiats. This will 

 probably meet with general acceptance, since the short broad 

 tragus and large nares of typical Vespertilio are quite character- 

 istic, and not in accord with those of the other members of the 

 genus. The present work was written too early for its adoption. 



As defined in the present work, this genus includes a 

 number of species of collectively wide distribution. The 



