1880.] FROM THE GOTTINGEN MUSEUM. 463 



'? r!.T/-r^"'''''" I" ^^^^'.''^ ^'•°^- S^^i' ^"d was labelled by him 

 a c^ Son ^7\B°"«P-"' ' the other is stated to have comeVorn 

 ?nmhL i .r'i ^^ Degenhardt at Popajan in the U.S. of Co- 

 lumbia, South America, in 1844. 



the^rSil'" *^' ^'"''"^ 'f ^'"""'^ ^°'"™ ^"'l "^ the dentition, nor in 



^ZtZZTJ"'"'''!^'^ ^''"' ^ ^'''' ^'^^^ *° «"d the least difference 

 ot impo.tance between these specimens, except such as depend upon 

 the immature condition of that from Tuscany, which, as shown bv 

 the ex re„,ties of the finger-bones, had not ^attained its fu'r size"^ 

 The following are the measurements of these specimens — 



Length, head and body '^f f'''^' 



J, head 



»> 



Tuscany. Popayaii. 



inch. inch. 



i-7 1-8 



tail ■ 0-63 0-65 



do. free from membrane .... o-15 O-i'i 



''' :::: 0-5 o-s 



" J^«g"« 0-2 0-2 



.> lorearm 2-3 i.q 



tliumb •••.'.''.*.!!!!'! 0-2 0-^ 



„ third finger, metacarpal 1-15 ^-l^ 



" )> » 1st phalanx 04 y.^r 



" fif-;? fi " ^"'^ P'i«'^"-^ •"•'. 0-5,5 0-55 



., nftli linger, metacarpal 1-1 j.^ 



" » » 1st phalanx 0'28 03 



" " " 2nd phalanx .... q-2 n.9 



tibia ■ ■ „.,. " 7^ 



" ^°°* 0-22 0-22 



As Blasius has remarked in his description of F. maurus the first 



upper premolar is extremely small in both these specimens Infla 



tfteaidol a ens. This at once accounts for Bonaparte's mistake 



when describing the dentition of V. savii. ^ mistake 



^ Vesper filio savii Bonap., 

 V. ainjthoe) ' - ^ • - 

 me in the ' C _ 



a correctly named snecimen (thmicrh ,-,/^f t-u 4. "^"I"^^" 'i^'^ociatea, and sent 



tmgen Museum, whi^h r;:s?o„°^tru\t;erele^S 



descriptions referred to above N^v^vftoi ^ t "l^^^P' "" dentition, with the 



W given, It IS impossible to be a'bsolutely surethatTt'L;;Ln;m^Vrr4- 



