THE BARBASTELLE BAT. 



Barbastellus Daubentonii. BELL. 



Vespertilio Barbastellus, Gmel. Linn. I. ; Mont. Linn. Trans. 

 IX. 171; Geoffr. Ann. Mus. VIII. 196; Desm. Mammal. 

 145; Jenyns, Brit. Vert. An. 38. Barbastellus Daubentonii. 

 Bell, Brit. Quadr. 63. 



THE genus Barbastellus, instituted by Mr Gray, 

 m the second volume of the Zoological Journal, is 

 composed of a single species, which was first de- 

 scribed by Daubenton in the Memoires de 1' Acade- 

 mic des Sciences, under the name of La Barbastelle. 

 Desmarest states that it is not very common in 

 France, and still less so in Germany, especially its 

 northern parts. Mr Sowerby first detected it in 

 England, and published an account of it in the Bri- 

 tish Miscellany ; Montagu, in the ninth volume of 

 the Transactions of the Linnaean Society, mentions 

 two specimens obtained in Devonshire ; Mr Jenyns 

 states that it has been found in Northamptonshire 

 and Cambridgeshire ; and Mr Bell received a speci- 

 men from Kent* 



