44 VESPERTILIONID^. 



CHEIROPTERA. VESPERTILIONID^E. 



THE SEROTINE. 



Scotophilus serotinus. 



Ears oval-triangular, shorter than the head ; tragus semicordate, curved 

 towards the head, little more than one-third the length of the auricle ; fur 

 chestnut brown above, yellowish grey beneath. 



Vespertilio serotinus, GM^L. DESMAR. Mammal, p. 137. KUHL, Deutsch. 



Flederm. sp. 9. GRAY, Zool. Journ. II. p. 109. 



JENYNS, Brit. Vert. p. 22. 



,, noctula, GEOFF. Ann. Mus. VIII. p. 193, t. xlvii. xlviii. 

 Scotophilus serotinus, GRAY, 1. c. 

 Vespertilio turcomanus, EVERSM. Bull, de Mosc. 1840, i. p. 21. 



? megalurus, TEMM. Mon. de Mam. t. ii. p. 206. 



Vesperugo serotinus, BLAS. 1. c. p. 76, f. 51, 52. 

 La Serotine, DAUBENT. Mem. Acad. 1759, p. 380, t. ii. f. 1. 



BUFFON, Hist. Nat. VIII. pp. 119, 129, t. xviii. 



f. 2. 



THE SEROTINE, notwithstanding the clear and intel- 

 ligible description of Daubenton, was mistaken for the 

 Noctule by Geoffroy, who described the one for the 

 other. It was discovered by Daubenton, and forms one 

 of the subjects of his excellent paper on the Bats in the 

 Memoirs of the French Academy for 17.59. It was also 



