158 VESPERTILIONID^— MYOTIS 



species, but no evidence supporting the statement has ever 

 been printed. 



This bat, which is an inhabitant of temperate and boreal 

 Europe and Asia, at least from the shores of the North Sea to 

 the Altais, differs from Daubenton's Water Bat, amongst other 

 characters, in its larger size, smaller central upper premolar, 

 more pointed ear, and forward curving tragus. The forearm 

 measures about 45 millimetres.] 



THE WHISKERED BAT. 



MYOTIS MYSTACINUS (Kuhl). 



1819. Vespertilio MYSTACINUS, Heinrich Kuhl, Nciie Ami. der Wetterauischen 

 Gesellschaft fiir die gesaminfe Naturkunde^ i., ii., 202 ; described from Leisler's 

 MSS., from Hanau, Germany; Bell (ed. i) ; Jenyns ; MacGillivray ; Blasius ; 

 Clermont; Fatio ; Bell (ed. 2); Dobson ; Harting, Zoologist, 1888, 161-166, pi. 2, 

 and 441, pi. 3 ; Blanford ; Flower and Lydekker ; Winge. 



1821. Vespertilio COLARIS, H. R. Schinz, Cuvier's Das Thierreich, i., 177; 

 described from the collared phase (see description below), from Meisner's MSS., 

 from Mont Blanc, Switzerland; type lost, vide auct. cit., Etiropciische Fauna, 17, 

 1840. 



1827. Vespertilio schinzii, C. L. Brehm, Omis (Jena), iii., 27; described from 

 Renthendorf, Germany. 



1833. Vespertilio humeralis, L. A. F. Baillon, Man. de la Soc. Roy. d^ Emula- 

 tion d'' Abbeville, 50 ; described from the phase with black shoulder-patches (see 

 description below), from Abbeville, France. 



1838. Vespertilio emarginatus, William MacGilHvray, British Quadrupeds, 96 ; 

 not V. emarginatus of Geoffroy. 



1841. Selysius MYSTACINUS, C. L., Prince Bonaparte, Fauna Italica, i., introduc- 

 tion (3). 



1844. Vespertilio latipennis, J. Crespon, Faune Mcridionale, i., 17 ; vide Troues- 

 sart. Bull, de la Soc. d' Etude des Sci. Nat. de Nimes, 7, i., 35-39, 1879 : described 

 from Nimes, France. 



1845. Vespertilio brandtii, Eduardo Eversmann, Bull. Soc. Imperiale des Nats, 

 de Moscou, xviii., 505, pi. 13, fig. 8, 1845 > described from the Samara River, and 

 province of Kasan, S.-E. Russia, 



1856. Brachyotus MYSTACINUS, F. A. Kolenati, Allgemeine deutsche Naturhist. 



Zeitutig (Dresden), Neue Folge, ii., 131, 174-175 ; not Vespertilio ciliatus of 



Blasius, 1853 = V. emarginatus of Geofifroy. 

 1862-63. Brachyotus mystacinus, var. nigricans, var. rufofuscus, and van 



AUREUS, Carl Koch, Jahrbiicher des Vereins fiir Naturkunde itn Herzogthum 



(Nassau), xviii., 440-448 ; see also Zoologische Garten, xi., 3689, 1870 ; described 



from Nassau, Germany. 

 1869. Vespertilio mystacinus, var. nigricans, Victor Fatio, Vertebrcs de la Suisse, 



i., 92 ; described from Switzerland : see Mottaz, loc. cit. infra. 

 1869. Vespertilio lugubris, auct. et loc. cit.; see Mottaz, Bull. Soc. Zool. (Geneva), 



Nov. 15, 1908, 152-153. 



