446 Zoological Society : — 



The dental series of the upper jaw when seen from below presents 

 two straight and nearly parallel lines, the space between them being 

 closed across the front opening by the transverse position of the in- 

 cisors. They are so placed as to occupy nearly all the opening. 

 Seen laterally they are nearly vertical ; but when viewed in front, 

 thev slope so much inwards that the points of the inner ones nearly 

 touch each other, and thus fill up nearly the whole of the interval 

 between the two canines. The space between them and the canines 

 is very small. The inner ones are rather large and deeply forked ; 

 the outer ones smaller and conical. The canines are short and stout, 

 angular, and somewhat pointed. All the remaining teeth in the 

 upper jaw are of the form common to nearly all the species of Ves- 

 pertilionidce. 



The lower incisors are small, close together, and trilobed ; the 

 canines short and rather stout ; and the three following teeth conical 

 and increasing in size, the one next to the true molars being con- 

 siderably larger than the two others, which are nearly equal. The 

 molars present nothing remarkable in their form. 



The following dimensions have been taken from three specimens 

 in the Paris collection, — one from Charlemoiit, one from Abbeville, 

 where it was collected by M. Baillon, and the third from a specimen 

 obtained by M. HoUandre at ]Metz. 



1. 2. 3. 



Length of the head and body . . 2 



of the tail 1 



of the head 



of the ears 



of the tragus 



of the fore-arm 1 



of the longest finger . . 2 



of the fourth finger. ... 2 



of the thumb 



of the foot and claws . . 



Expanse of wings 10 6 10 9 10 



2. Vespertilio formostis, Hodgs. 



V.formosus, Hodgs. Journ, As. Soc. Bengal, iv. p. 700, 1835. 

 Kerivoula formosa. Gray, Cat. Mam. Brit. Mus. p. 27, 1843; 



Chiroptera presented by Prince Bonaparte, because they are the types of his de- 

 scriptions in tlie ' Fauna Italica.' The species which I received were as follow : — 

 Vesp. emarginatus, /'. Ai-istippe, V. vispisirellun, V. Cappacinii, V. miniopteris, 

 V. Ursinii, Noctula leucippe, Pipistrellus SavWi, P. noctula, P. alcythoe, Plecohis 

 auritus, and Rhinolophus ferrum-equinum, the names here given being those 

 attached to the specimens. It appears that they had been prepared as skeletons, 

 with the membranes and ears left attached, and had then been expanded on 

 pieces of card-board and varnished, the skin and fur having been also attached 

 to the card. In this state they bad been placed in a portfolio prepared for their 

 reception, which previously to passing into my hands had been subjected to suffi- 

 cient pressure to crush and very much injure the specimens, the crushed parts 

 being in some of them lost. 



