TIONo 



Class I. MINUTE BAT. 181 



Vespertilio mlnutus. Montagu. Lin. 50. Schreh. Seanghth, ^\, Minute. 

 Linn. Tr. ix. l63. V, ferrum i. p. 174. Tah. LXII. ic. 

 equlnum. B. minor. Gm. sup. 



-fVl R. Montagu, to whom the lovers of natu- 

 ral history are so much mdebted, has added this 

 new species to the list of British animals. He 

 has found it more than once in Wiltshire and 

 Devonshire. 



In color and general character, it strongly re- De?crip- 

 sembles the Horse-shoe Bat, but is much smaller, 

 scarcely exceeding in length two inches and 

 three quarters from the tip of the nose to the 

 end of the tail ; the extent of the wings is nine 

 inches and a half; the weight from sixty-three 

 to eighty grains. A material distinction also 

 occurs in the formation of the nasal membranes, 

 especially that which is posterior and transverse. 

 To explain this, the editor has taken the liberty 

 of copying the outline from PL xviii. of the Lin- 

 ncean Transactions. Fig. 1. in the annexed 

 plate, represents the side view of the membranes 

 of the Horse-shoe Bat, of which a is the poste- 

 rior transverse one; the front is seen at Fig 2. 

 The same views are given of the nasal mem- 

 branes of the Minute Bat at Fig. 3 and 4. where 

 Z», h represent tlie membranes in different points 



