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VESPERTILIONID^— MYOTIS 



The wing is therefore of expanse under the average, broad at its 

 base, with an ample interfemoral membrane. It is poorly developed 



at the extremity. The thumb 

 is long. 



The fur is soft and woolly. 



The face (Plate XIV., Fig. i) 



is thinly haired except on the 



I forehead, and there are a few 



moustache - like hairs on the 



Fig. 17.— Front View of Incisors 

 AND Canines of Myotis bechsteini (en- 

 larged and diagrammatic). 



muzzle. The wing is compara- 

 tively free of hairs, the hair of 

 the body not extending farther 

 than about to a line joining 

 the middle points of humerus 

 and femur, and very slightly to 

 the interfemoral membrane. 

 The ear is free of hair except 

 externally at the base and a 

 fringe on the lower third of the 

 outer margin. 



The colour is very similar to that of M. fiatterefi, the bases of the 

 hairs being everywhere dusky, with the tips some shade of wood-brown 



Fig. 16, 



-Side View (diagrammatic and enlarged) 

 OF Skulls and Teeth of 



I. Nyctalus leisleri. 2. Myotis bechstemi. 

 3. M. nattereri. 



