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Plecotus, is very great, and, contrary to a law of 

 zoological geography, spreads over the whole earth, 

 with the exception (hitherto) of New Holland. 

 There are now seventy- eight species fully ascer- 

 tained : twenty-eight belonging to Europe, nine to 

 Africa, with two common to both, twenty-four to 

 Asia and India, two of which' likewise occur in 

 Europe, and seventeen are known in America : 

 there are many more not satisfactorily described, 

 the whole amounting to at least one hundred and 

 eight species. 



In England, alone, we have thirteen species : 

 V. noctilio, or Noctule Bat; V. Leislerii; V. dis- 

 color; V. serotinus ; V. auritus, or Long -eared 

 Bat; V. Nattereri; V. Daubentonii; V. nystaci- 

 nus ; V. emarginatus ; V. plplstrellus^ or Common 

 Bat ; V. larbastellus ; V. Becksteinii ; and F. mu- 

 rinus, or Mouse-eared Bat. The common species 

 is well known, and the others afford, in general, not 

 sufficient interest to demand even a nominal notice 

 in a work of such small dimensions as our present 

 volume ; we will, therefore, close our abstract ac- 

 count of this order, by naming the twenty-fifth and 

 last of our catalogue, namely, the 



Genus FURIA, F. Cuv., or Fury Bats. Dent, 

 form, incis. f , can. \ -|, mol. = H = 36. Cra- 

 nium rising almost vertically from the face ; upper 

 jaw much depressed ; flat nosed with hairy bristles ; 

 nail, only of the thumb, projecting from the mem- 

 brane. Only one species of South America is known. 



F. horreus. Rugged Bat. . Entirely black ; 





