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spondiiig to the latter from Nikko, Japan, has been enabled to add the 

 following notes ' : — The European form is larger, has longer feet, broader 

 and more rounded-off ears, and the tragus is distinctly curved outwards 

 above, whereas in the Japan animal it is quite straight. 



Vespertilio daubenionii, Leisl. 



To synonymy add Vespertilio palhscens, Crespon (' FauneMeridionale,' 

 t. i. p. 11, 1844), vide Trouessart, (' Bullet. Soc. Sci. Nat. de Nimes,' fev. 

 ISJ'9, No, 2, p. 35). The same writer has discovered this species in 

 caves near Villeveque, Maine-et-Loire. 



Vespertilio hechsteinii, Leisl. 

 round in caves, referred to above, with V. dauhenionn (Trouessart). 



Vespertilio africauus, Dobson. 



Owing to a mistake in the labelling of the type, I was led to assign 

 the Gaboon as a locality for this form, the true country of which, Mr. 

 Oldfield Thomas informs me, is unknown. V. hfricanus is easily distin- 

 guished from V. murinns by its much shorter ears, and acutely pointed 

 tragus, but intermediate forms may, hereafter, turn up, and the name 

 which has been unfortunately given may conveniently sink into the list of 

 synonyms. 



Vespertilio nigricans, Wied. 



To list of localities add Popayan, New Gi-enada, and Cordova, Argen- 

 tine Republic (Gottingen Mus.). 



Vespertilio lucifugtis, Leconte. 

 Add Nova Scotia (Matthew Jones and 0. Thomas, Br. Mus.). 



Kerivoula africana, Dobson. 



In my description of this species ('Catal. Chiropt. Br. Mus.,' p. 335), 

 the ears should have been described as being ' as long as the head,' so as to 

 agi'ee with the statement in the synoptical table (op. cit. p. 331). 



Kerivoula smithii. 



Kerivoula smithii, 0. Thomas, ' Ann. Mag:. Kat. Hist." August, 1880, p. 3.38 

 (with a woodcut of the ear). 



Ear-conch as in K. africana, but the basal lobule of the tragus is 

 exceedingly small. Wings to the base. Fur, above and beneath, grey- 

 ish-brown, the extremities of the hairs shining grey. DistHbution of the 

 fur as in K. lanosa, with the exception of the interfemoral fringe, of which 

 there is no trace. 



Inner upper incisors long, with a distinct posterior secondary cusp at 

 the commencement of their terminal third, to which point the extremity 

 of the outer incisor on each side extends ; outer incisors with a postero- 

 internal secondary cusp at the commencement of their terminal half; 

 first upper premolar intermediate in size between the second and third, 

 lower premolars equal. 



■ M. B. Ahul. BcvVxn, 1880, p. Sr.. 



