MAMMALIA. 733 



Vespertilio BLAS. and KEYSERL. (External margin of ears terminating 



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 tinder the tragus. Molars z^2 ) 



Sp. Vespertilio murinus auctor. (notL.), Vespertilio myotis~BECK&T., BUFF. 1. 1. 

 PI. 1 6, SCHREB. Saugth. Tab. 51 ; the largest bat of Europe; it occurs also 

 in the North of Africa and is entirely nocturnal. (Vespertilio murinus L. 

 is, according to NILLSON, Vesp. discolor NATTERER, a species belonging to 

 Vesperugo.) 



Plecotus GEOFFR., BLAS. and KEYSERL. Ears connate above the fore- 

 head, longer than head, with external margin terminating under the tragus. 



Molars =|. 



Sp. Vespertilio auritus L., BUFF. 1. L, PL 17, fig. i, SCHREB. Saugth. Tab. 

 50, Ann. du Mus. Vin. PL 45 (fig. of head), PL 48 (fig. of skull) ; the long- 

 eared lot; the ears i. inches long; common in Holland and in England. 



On the other genera of BLASIUS and KEYSERLING, Synotus, Miniopterus, 

 see their work Die Wirbelthiere Europa's, s. 17, 18, 44, 45. 



Amongst the exotic species we record, on account of the red stripes in 

 the wings along the fingers (which become pale yellow in dried specimens), 

 Vespertilio pictus PALL., SEBA Thes. I. Tab. 56, figs. 2, 3, BUFF. x. PL so, 

 fig. 3, SCHREB. Saugth. Tab. 49, TEMM. Monogr. n. PL 56, figs, i 3 ; 

 from India and the Sunda Islands. 



Thyroptera SPIX. (Thyreoptera, CANTRAINE'S correction.) Ears 



/> / K K 



separate, with tragus small. Molar teeth ^ - , or ^ . Coria- 



ceous orbicular disc set upon the pollex, larger in the fore feet, 

 smaller in the hind feet. Tail with tip free, emerging beyond the 

 intercrural membrane. 



Comp. H. RASCH Nyt Magazin for Naturvidenskab. iv. Christiania, 

 1843, PP- * r j Tao - l > F - CANTRAINE, Bullet, de TAcad. roy. de Brux. 

 xn. No. 5, 1845 (with col. fig. of Thyreopttra licolor CANTR.). Hyonycteris 

 LICHTENST. and PETERS is not distinct from this genus. Neue merlcwilrdigc 

 Sdugtkiere des Konigl. Zool. Museums, Berlin, 1855, 4(0. 



Furia F. Cuv. Upper canine teeth tricuspidate, lower cylindric, 

 with anterior and posterior basal cusp j lower incisors tridentate. 



Sp. Furia horrens F. Cuv. Mfm. du, Mus. xvi. pp. 149 155, PL 9; from 

 South America. 



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Nycticejus RAFINESQUE. Incisor teeth in adults - , (in younger 



4\ 4-4 



^ j, upper conic, resembling canines; molars ^ - . (Cranium nar- 



rowed between the orbits, gibbous behind, furnished with exsert 

 crest.) 



