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Vespertilio murinoides, Lartet 1 . 

 Hob. France. 



33265. Fragment of the left ramus of the mandible, containing the 

 last premolar and the first and second true molars, as well 

 as the alveoli of pm. 2 and pm. 3 and of the canines ; from 

 the Middle Miocene of Sansan (Gers), France. This spe- 

 cimen seems to agree with the enlarged figures given by 

 Gervais in the Zool. et Pal. Francises, 2nd ed. pi. xliv. 

 figs. 5-7. Judging from the size of its alveolus, it appears 

 that pm. 3 was relatively large ; and it is therefore doubt- 

 ful whether the species belongs to the genus in the sense 

 in which it is employed in recent zoology. 



Presented by M. Ed. Lartet, 1858. 



33265 a. Distal half of the femur ; from the Miocene of Sansan. 



Presented by M. Ed. Lartet, 1858. 



Vespertilio insignis, H. von Meyer 2 . 

 Hob. Europe. 



25452. The greater part of the humerus ; from the Lower Mio- 

 cene of Mayence. The specific distinctness of this form is 

 very doubtful, as it was mainly named from the humerus ; 

 there is equal doubt as to the correctness of the generic 

 determination. Purchased, 1850. 



Order INSECTIVORA. 



It has been deemed advisable to follow the arrangement adopted 

 in the Zoological Department of the Museum, and to place this order 

 and the Chiroptera between the Primates and the Carnivora. The 

 writer would, however, have preferred placing the present order after 

 the Carnivora, in proximity to the Carnivora Primigenia, whiqh 

 would then have been placed after the existing Carnivora. As will 

 be noticed below, it is highly probable that the present order should 

 be regarded as a suborder of Carnivora. 



1 Notice siir la Colline de Sansan, p. 12 (1851). 

 8 Neues Jahrb. 1845, p. 798. 



