586 VESPERTILIO. 
Vesperus Keyserl. & Blas., Wiegm., Archiv. f. Naturg., 183 
Batis p. 303: 
Cateorus Kolenati, Allgem. Deutsch. Naturh. Zeitg., Dresden, 
neue Folge, 11, 1856, pp. 121, 162. 
Meteorus Kolenati, Allgem. Deutsch. Naturh. Zeitg., Dresden, 
neue Folge, 1, 1856, pp. 137, 107. 
Marstpolemus Peters, Monatsb. K. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berl., 
1872, p. 200. 
Adelonycteris H. Allen, Proc. Acad. Nat. Scien. Phil., 1891, p. 466. 
Skull large, superior outline nearly straight; occiput angular; 
sagittal crest present; rostrum broad, slightly concave back of nasal 
opening; ear short, narrower than long, with basal lobe; tragus 
straight, short, directed forward, pointed; back of interfemoral mem- 
brane with but few hairs. 
Fig. 109. VESPERTILIO FUSCUS. 
No. 61130 U. S. Nat. Mus. Coll. 
21% times nat. size. Nose enlarged § times. 
KEY TO tHE SPECIES AND SUBSPECIES: 
A. Outer margin of ear conch not terminating 
under the jaw. 
a. Tragus short, less than half the length of the 
ear. 
