384 On the Nomenclature of some European Bats. 



remaining 34-toothed species. Each of these groups had been 

 named bj Kaup ten years previously. Therefore each of 

 the constituent parts of the genus Vesjyerugo was provided 

 with a tenable name at the time when the composite genus 

 was formed. The first of the two genera into which the 

 original subgenus Vesperugo is now divided is 



PiPISTEELLUS, Kaup, 1829. 



1829. Pipistvelhts, Kaup, Skizzirte Entw -Uescli. u. natiirl. Syst. der 



europ. Thierw. Ister Theil, p. 98. Type Vespertilio jnjmfrelhis, 



Schreber. 

 1839. Vesperugo, Keyserling & Blasius, Wiegmann's Archiv fiir 



Naturgeschichte, v.Bd. i. p. 312 (part.). 

 1856. Nanmigo, Kolenati, Allgem. deutsch. naturliist. Zeitg. Dresden, 



reue Folge, ii. pp. 131, 169-172. Based on Nathusii, pipisirellus, 



and Kuhlii. 

 18-56. Hifpsmjo, Kolenati, Allgem. deutsch. natiirbist. Zeitg. Dresden, 



neue Folge, ii. pp. 131, 167-169. Included " Fespe/v^^o " /^aitrMS, 



Blasius, and "F." Krascliem'nikovii, Evcrsmann. 

 1878. VespertKjo, Dobson, Catal. Cliiroptera Biit. Mus. p. 183 (part.). 

 1893. Vespenigo, H. Allen, Monogr. Bats N. Am. p. 121. 



The type species, the Pipistrelle, is therefore 

 Pipistrellus pipiatrellus ( Schreber) . 



The second of the included genera is 



Pterygistes, Kaup, 1829. 



1829. Pteryf/istes, Kaup, Skizzirte Entw.-Gesch. u. natiirl. Syst. der 



europ. Thierw. Ister Theil, pp. 99, 100. Type Vespertilio noctula, 



Schreber. 

 1839. Vesperugo, Keyserling & Blasius, Wiegmann's Archiv fiir Natur- 



geschichte, v. Bd. i. p. 312 (part). 

 1842. Noctulinia, Gray, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. x. p. 258. Included 



pfoterus anA fiihus. 

 1856. Pmmgo, Kolenati, Allgem. deutsch. uaturhist. Zeitg. Dresden, 



neue Folge, ii. pp. 131, 172-174. Included noctula and Leisleri. 

 1878. Vespervgo, Dobson, Catal. Chiropt. Brit. Mus. p. 183 (part.). 

 1893. Noctuliiiia, II. Allen, Proc. U.S. National Museum, p. 30. 



Tlie type will stand as 



Pterygistes noctula (Schreber). 



III. The Genus Barbastella. 



In Dobson's Catalogue of the Chiroptera in the British 

 Museum the generic name Barhastellus is discarded in favour 

 of Synotusj Keyserling and Blasius, 1839, on the ground that 

 it was first applied to a spec es of NyctopJiilus'^. 



* P. 175, footnote. 



