I30 VESPERTILIONIDyE— VESPERTILIO 



Only one species, V. serotinus, is a regular member of the 

 British Fauna, but V. murimis has twice been taken at or 

 near seaports. 



THE SEROTINE. 



VESPERTILIO SEROTINUS, Schreber. 



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



Histoire Naturelle, viii., 129, pi. xviii., fig. 2 ; also, Man. de VAcad. Roy. des Sd., 



2,77 and 380, pi. ii. (15), fig. 2, 1759, published 1765 ; described from France. 

 1774. VESPERTILIO SEROTINUS, J. C. D. von Schreber, Die Sdiigthiere^ i, pi. liii., 



167, evidently naming Daubenton's La Serotine ; Jenyns ; Bell (ed. i) ; Clermont ; 



Dobson ; Flower and Lydekker ; Miller ; Thomas, Zoologist, 1898, 100 ; Johnston ; 



Cabrera ; Millais. 

 i8o6. VESPERTILIO NOCTULA, Isidore Geoffroy, Ann. dii Miis. d^Hist. iVa/., viii., 193, 



pis. 47 and 48 ; transference of name in error. 

 181 1. VESPERTILIO MURINUS, P. S. Pallas, ZoograpMa Rosso-asiatica, i., 121, No. 



46 ; preoccupied by V. murinus of Linnaeus, 1758. 

 1811. VESPERTILIO SEROTINA, auct. et Op. cit., 123. 

 1827. VESPERTILIO WIEDII, C. L. Brehm, Ornis (Jena), iii., No. 3, 24 ; described 



from Jena, Germany. 

 1827. VESPERTILIO OKENI, atect. ct Op. cit., iii., No. 4, 25 ; described from Jena, 



Germany. 

 1829. VESPERTILIO RUFESCENS, ai(ct. cit., Oken's Isis (Jena), 643 ; described from 



Jena, Germany. 



1838. SCOTOPHILTJS SEROTINUS, J. E. Gray, Mag. Zool. and Bof., 4g7 ; MacGillivray; 

 Bell (ed. 2). 



1839. Vesperugo (vesperus) serotinus, a. Graf von Keyserling and J. H. 

 Blasius, Wiegmann's Archiv fiir Naturgeschichte, i., 313 ; Dobson ; Blanford. 



1844. VESPERTILIO INCISIVUS, J. Crespon, Faune Mcridionale, i., 26 ; described from 



Nimes, France. 

 1844. VESPERTILIO PALUSTRIS, auct. et Op. cit., 22 ; described from Nimes, France. 



1856. Cateorus SEROTINUS, F. A. Kolenati, Allgemeine deutsche Naturhist. Zeitung 

 (Dresden), Neue Folge, ii., 131, 162-163. 



1857. Vesperugo serotinus, J. H. Blasius, Sdugethiere DeutscJilands, 76 ; Lydekker. 

 1 862- 1 863. Cateorus serotinus, var. typus, var rufescens, and var. pallidus ; 



Carl Koch., Jahrbiicher des Vereins fiir Naturkunde im Herzogthu7n (Nassau), xviii., 

 463-467, etc. ; described from middle Europe, south Europe, and the "die steppen 

 Siid-Russlands " respectively : the latter apparently = V. turconianus of Eversmann. 



1870. Vesperus serotinus, L. J. Fitzinger, SitzimgsbericJite der Kaiserlichen Akad. 

 der Wissenschaften (Vienna), Ixii. (i), 88. 



1900. Eptesicus serotinus, Mehely Lajos, Monographia Chiropteroritm Hungariae, 

 209, 340, pi. xiv. ; Miller ; Trouessart (1910). 



La Serotine of the French ; die spdtfliegende Fledernimis of the 

 Germans. 



Serotine from the French serotin, from the Latin serotinus, i.e., late^ 

 or backward. 



" Rattle-mouse" of Wight (Guyon, Zoologist, 1856, 5216). 



