98 = Proceedings of the Royal Physical Society. 
V. nattereri in the district is by no means so very unlikely, 
looking to its range on the Continent, and seeing it has 
apparently already occurred in Scotland, a specimen (an adult 
female) in the British Museum being labelled “Inveraray, 
August 1858,” and identified by no less an authority than 
Dr G. E. Dobson (“Catalogue of the Chiroptera,” p. 308). 
I ought to say, however, that the Duke of Argyll, from 
whom the specimen is said. te have been received, has no 
recollection of the matter (letter to Mr Harvie-Brown, 24th 
March 1891). This record appears to have escaped the 
notice of Mr Alston when he drew up his paper on the 
Scottish Mammals, and might have been overlooked by me 
also, but for Mr Harting’s article on the species, published in 
the Zoologist for 1889, p. 247. 
To the same writer’s article on the Whiskered Bat (Ves- 
pertilio mystacinus Leis].) in the Zoologist for 1888 (p. 165), I 
am indebted for a clue which has enabled me to trace an 
undoubted Scotch example (the only one on record) of this 
species also. The specimen, which is in the Manchester 
Museum (Owens College), was captured by Mr J. Ray Hardy 
of that institution, who writes me as follows:—“I took the 
Bat you mention about four miles from Rannoch on the road 
to Pitlochry, early in June 1874, while sugaring for LNoctue. 
I struck at him with my entomological net, and the cane rim 
caught him and knocked him down. He died in my hand.” 
Its identity with V. mystacinus of Leisler was first recog- 
nised by the Rev. J. E. Kelsall, who mentioned it to 
Mr Harting, and this identification has been confirmed by 
Mr Oldfield Thomas of the British Museum, to whom the 
specimen has been kindly submitted by my friend Mr W. E. 
Hoyle, curator of the Owens College Museum. My best 
thanks are due to Mr Hardy for the privilege of being 
allowed to record these particulars for the first time. This, 
then, is another Bat which we may reasonably hope to 
discover in the district. ] 
