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the blossoms of the blackthorn. When the sallows are in bloom 
the Long-eared Bat catches several species of Teniocampa which 
feed on the blossoms, and Doubleday watched this species 
picking moths off the flowers in his garden. Couch also has 
seen it take a fly off a leaf without alighting.* When dealing with 
the larger Lepidoptera they bite off the wings close to the body 
and drop them, eating only the body; and the haunt of a Bat 
may sometimes be discovered by the quantity of insect wings 
lying just below. 
The present distribution of Natterer’s Bat in the British 
Islands cannot be stated in a few words. So much attention has 
been bestowed of late years on the Chiroptera that even in the 
second edition of Bell’s standard work (1874) the records of the 
occurrence of this species are very incomplete. In our annotated 
copy of that work, without much trouble, we have been able to 
add some thirty additional localities for V. Nattereri to those 
mentioned in the text, and there are doubtless others which have 
escaped notice. Briefly speaking, it may be said that Natterer’s 
Bat is found in England and Wales from Cornwall to Durham, 
and from Norfolk in the east to Merionethshire in the west,—a 
pretty wide distribution. In a few counties, it is true, it has 
hitherto escaped observation, but its discovery in these is 
probably only a question of time, now that such close attention 
is paid to the fauna of particular areas, although we should not 
expect to hear of it in the mountainous parts of England and 
Wales. Its occurrence in the following counties has been 
vouched for by good observers :— 
Cornwatu. — At Looe, Sept., 1852 (Couch, ‘ Zoologist,’ 1858, 
p- 3937+ ; ‘ Cornish Fauna,’ 2nd ed., 1878, p. 2). 
Drvon.—No mention is made of this Bat in any of the 
Devonshire Catalogues by Turton and Kingston, Bellamy 
(1839), Brooking Rowe (1868), D’Urban (1875), or Parfitt 
(1877). In our annotated copy of Bell’s work, however, 
we find a memorandum of its having been noted at Torquay 
by Mr. Gurney, though he has no recollection of it. 
Dorset.—Ensbury, Borrer (Zool. 1874, p. 4127). 

* * Zoologist,’ 1848, p. 343. 
+ His observations on Bats (J. c.), extending over seven pages, are worthy 
of attention. 
