5G0 Description of a new English Bat. 



Dr. Leach, who with great liberality, forwarded a specimen to 

 one of the Conductors of our Journal, considers it as a new species, 

 and states in the Letter, dated October 12, 1824, accompanying 

 the specimen : 



" I have named it Vespertilio Pygmceus; it was taken at 

 Spitchweek, near the forest of Dartmoor, where it is extremely 

 common. The specimen sent is a female, and had milk in its 

 mamma?. All that I have seen are nearly of the same size." 



Vespertilio Pygm^us. 



V. capite alto, rostro brevi obtuso sulco frontali exarato, auri- 

 culis capite brevioribus basi latis apice obtusis rotundatis, 

 trago lineari simplici, vellere molli brevi fusco capite dor- 

 soque summo saturatiore subtus pallidiore canescente, cauda 

 elongata apice nudiuscula e membrana interfemorali paul- 

 lisper exserta. 



Dimensions. 



INCHES. LINES. 



Entire length of the body and head 1 2^ 



Length of the head 5 



Length of the ears 4 



Length of the tail 9 



Extent of the flying-membrane carefully 

 measured along the bones of the arm 



and phalanges 5 4 



Description. 

 Head high in its vertical dimensions ; rostrum short, obtuse, 

 nearly of equal breadth throughout, very gradually attenuated to 

 the nose, which terminates abruptly, and is short and broad ; nos- 

 trils small, opening laterally ; forehead marked with a longitudinal 

 furrow. Ears shorter than the head, broad at the base, obtuse 

 and rounded at the extremity ; the anterior margin nearly straight, 

 the posterior slightly concave and convolute ; tragus about one- 

 half of the length of the auricle, regularly linear, simple and 

 rounded at the extremity. Face covered rather scantily with a 

 very short down, and without any lengthened bristly hairs. Tail 



