210 TEN YEARS IN SWEDEN. 



Is sparingly distributed over the whole country, and 

 seems to be the only species which is met with in Lapland. 

 I have frequently killed it in South Wermland. 



3. YESP. NOCTULA, Daub. Stor Brun Fladermus. The Great 



Bat. D. 



Length 3 in. ; fore-arm 2 in. 1 1. Colour, yellow- 

 brown, above a little duller, underneath rather paler ; 

 nose, ears, and wings, blackish ; hair paler at the roots. 

 The under side of the wing, along the arm, thickly 

 covered with hair. Tragus broad and rounded. 

 Is sparingly distributed over the south and middle of 

 Sweden, as far up at least as Smaland, but no further. 



4. YESP. NATHUSII, Keys, and Bias. Nathusius' Flader- 



mus. D. 



Length about 2 in.; forearm 1 in. 2 1. Eusty brown, 

 head above, rather duller, under parts dull yellow-brown ; 

 hair from the root to three-quarters of its length 

 blackish ; ears of the same height, and breadth 2- 1. 

 Is probably often confounded with the V. pipistrellus, but 

 is nowhere so common. As yet it has only been met with 

 in Scania, and that rarely. 



5. VESP. PIPISTRELLUS, Daub. Liten Brun Fladermus. The 



Common Bat. D. F. 



Length 1 in. 6 1.; tail 1 in. 2 L; breadth of wing 8 in. 

 6 1. Body above of a uniform yellow-brown or soot- 

 brown colour, under parts a little paler -, hair blackish 

 from the root to the middle j nose blackish ; ears and 

 interfemoral membrane black ; ears oval 2 1. high , 

 tragus small, of an even breadth, and rounded off. 

 Is the commonest of all the Scandinavian bats, at least 

 as far up as Stockholm and Bergen in Norway. 



Nilsson observes that he has seen the specimen of V. 

 pygmceus in the British Museum, which is described by Bell 

 as the pigmy bat, and he is satisfied that it is nothing 

 more than the young of the common bat. 



