Nomenclatiire of some. Evrojtenn Bai.f. ^S^ 



li'SO. Ino/tis, Kolcnnli, Allpeni. deutsrh. iifilurliist. Zeitpr, Drefder, 



noue Fi.l^e, ii. pp. 131, 177-17'J. Included the species Naltereri 



and etnari/iiiatu.s. 

 1870. Aeorvstes, Fitzinpcr, Silzungsber. ninth. -nat. CI. V. Aluid. 



■\VicsenHli. "NVion, Ixii. Abth. i. pji. 4'J7— 136. Included the species 



I'illofiissijiius, alliesctns, iilijricaiis, and levis. 

 1870. Coviaiftcs, Fitzinger, Sitzungsber. luatli.-nat. CI. k. Akad. 



"SVissen.Hh. Wien, Ixii. Abtli. iv. p. 31). Included CV/^^mcc/wjV, vieya- 



j.ixlius, (/fi:<i/c7ic7niis, and livmajhiliis. 

 1878. Vcynii/io. I'ubsoii, Catal. CLiropteia Ibit. Mus. p. 284 (not 



Vespertilio, Liunanis, 1758). 



Tlie specific name Vespertilio murinus, Scliveber, 1775, is 

 ])ieocciij)icd by V. murinus^ LiniuTUs, 1758. As already 

 pointed out by IMilsson, it must therefore give way to 

 Vespertilio wyotis, Bechstein, 1791. The common, large, 

 38-tootlied bar of Central and Southern Europe is then 



Ml/Otis myotis (Bechstein). 



177'). Vespertilio murinus, Scbreber, Saugthiere, i. p. 1G5, pi. li. (not 



J'esperfilio 77iurinu!<, Linnajus, 1758). 

 1791. Vespertilio myotis, Bechstein, Naturgesch. Peutschl. i. p. 1154. 

 1839. Vcsjiertilio 7nurinus, Koyserling & Blasiu?:, ^^'iegmann's Archiv 



fiir Naturgeschichte, v. Bd. i. p. 306 (not V. nntrinus, Linnajus, 



1758). 

 1847. i'espertilio myotis, Nilsson, Skaud. Fauna, Diiggdjuren, p. 20 



(andra upplagen). 

 1878. Vespertilio murinus, Dobson, Catal. Chiroptera Brit. Mus. p. 309 



(not 7'. murinus, Linuajus, 1758j. 



II. The Genera Pipistrellus a^jcZ Pterygistes. 



It lias already been shown that one of the several genera 

 commonly associated as subgenera under the name Vesperugo 

 must take the name Vespertilio. It remains to show that the 

 name Vesperugo cannot be used in any sense. 



As originally defined by Keyserling and Blasius, the genus 

 Vesperugo included twelve species : serotinus, discolor , 

 ^ilsso7iij Savii, leucij>ye, aristippe, noctula, Leisleri, Kuhlii, 

 alholivilutuSj A atJnisii, and jn'pistrellus. These were arranged 

 in two subgenera — Vesperugo, including the t]4-toothed 

 species, and Vesperus, those with 32 teeth. The subgenus 

 Vesperus is exactly equivalent to the restricted genus Vesjjer- 

 tilio, Linnaius, to the genus Eptesicus, liafinesquCj and to the 

 genus Cnephaus, Kaup, each of which antedates it. Aside 

 from this, however, it would be necessary to find the type of 

 the genus among the species referred by the authors to the- 

 typical subgenus. These represent two modern groups — 

 the first consisting of noctula and Leisleri, the second of the 



