VESPERTILIO TEMMINCKII. 



Ord. III°^ Carnassiers, Cuvier, I'f Famille, les Cheii-opteres. 



Ord. I. Primates, Linn. Syst. 



Ord. XI. VoLiTANTiA, Illiger. Fam. 32, Chiroptera. 



VESPERTILIO, Linn. Briss. Cuv. Geoff. Illig. &c. 



Char. gen. — Denies iwimores supra duo solitarii aut quatuor geminati, lacuna inter- 

 media distincti, cylindrici, acuti, vel compressi, emarginati; infra sex valde 

 approximati, apice bifidi rarius trifidi. Laniarii distincti longiores conici vel 

 SEepius obsolete trigoni. Molares supra utrinsecus quatuor, quinque vel sex 

 infra utrinsecus quinque vel sex, anterioribus s^epius unicuspidibus, posterio- 

 ribus complicatis multicuspidatis. 



Rostrum productum. Nasus prosthemate nullo. Auriculce magnge operculatas. 



Corpus patagio digitali, lumbari et anali, denudatis cinctum. Patagium anale inte- 

 grum. Cauda patagio anali innata, ad marginem ejus usque protensa, inflexa. 

 Mammce apertas dvxas pectorales. 



Pedes pentadactyli, antipedes chiropteri, halluce libero unguiculato, digitis elongatis 

 muticis. SceUdes ambulatorice. Ungues falculares, digitorum elongatorum anti- 

 pedum nulli. 



Having in the former Numbers of this Work described and figured various 

 subjects of the FamUy of Chiroptera, I have proposed in the present to give a 

 connected view of the species collected in Java, which belong to the genus 

 Vespertilio, as defined by M. GeofFroy St. Hilaire, with a more detailed account of 

 one of these, which is represented on the Plate annexed to this article. I have 

 dedicated it to my illustrious friend, C. F. Temminck, the Director of the Museum 

 of Natural History of the King of the Netherlands, in Leyden. 



The species will be enumerated in the following order: — 1. Vespertilio Tem- 

 mincMi; 2. V esTpertilio adversus ; 3. Vespertilio HardwicJeii; 4. Vespertilio tralatitius ; 

 5. Vespertilio imbricatus ; 6. Vespertiho pictus. 



