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CHEIROPTERA. 



VESPERTILJOMD^E. 



WHISKERED BAT. 



Vesper tilio lui/sf acinus. 



Ears olilong, bending outwards, shorter than tlie head, notolied on tlio 

 outer margin ; tragus half the length of the auricle, lanceolate, a little ex- 

 panded at the outer margin near the base ; upper lip furnished with a 

 moustache of long fine hair : fur blackish chestnut above, dusky beneath. 



Vespertilio myslaclnus, Leisler. Kuiiii, Deutsch. Flederm. sp. 14. Des- 



MAR. Mammal, p. 140. Grav, Zool. Journ. II. 

 p. 109. Jenvns, Brit. Yert. p. 26. 



This species was discovered by Leisler in Germany, 

 wliere it is said to be rare. The first notice of its being- 

 an inhabitant of this country appears in Dr. Gray's 

 enumeration of British Vespertilionida.' in tlie Zoological 

 Journal. This gentleman supposes that Montagu mistook 

 it for Bai'hastellus, and states that the specimen marked 

 Barbastellvs in the British Museum, which belonged to 

 Montagu, is of this species. Mr. .Tenyns has obtained it 

 in Cambridgeshire and Northamptonsiiire ; ]\Ir. Yarrell, 

 from the caverns at Colchester ; and one wc had living 



