6. VE9PERUG0. 191 



5. Vesperugo serotinus. 



Vespertilio serotinus, Schreb. Smgeth. i. p. 167, pi. 53 (1775) ; Omel. 



Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 48 (1788) ; KiM, Ann. Wetterau Naturh. 



Bd. iv. p. 45 (1819) ; Desmar. Mammal, p. 137 (1820) ; Cim. Eigne 



Anim. p. 121 (1829) ; Bmap. Fauna Ital. f. xxi. (1832) : Bell, Brit. 



Quadr. p. 34, wdct. (1837). 

 Vespertilio noctiUa, Geoff. Ann. du Muskm, viii. p. 193, pi. (1806). 

 Vespertilio muriTJUs, Pallas, Zoogr. Bosso-Asiat. i. p. 121. 

 Vespertilio isabellinus, Temminck, Monogr. Mammal, ii. p. 205. 

 Scotophilus serotinus, Gray, Mag. Zool. 6r Bot. ii.p. 497 (1838) ; Mac- 



gillivray, British Qtiadrvp. {Nat. Lilr. ser.) p. 108 (1838) ; Jerdrni, 



Mammals of India, p. 34 (1867). 

 ^'espenigo (Vesperus) serotinus, Ke>/s. 8,- Bias. Wiegm. Archiv, 1839, 



p. 312 ; Wagn^, Stipjjl. Schreb. Saugeth. v. p. 732 (1855) ; Blasius, 



Fauna Deutschl. p. 76 (1857) ; Dubson, Monogr. Asiat. Chiropt. 



p. 108, fig. a (head), 1876. 

 Vespertilio turcomanus, Eversmann, Bullet, de Moscou, 1840, p. 21. 

 Scotophilus pachyomus, Tomes, P. Z. S. 1857, p. 50. 

 Vespertilio (Vesperus) mirza, Filippi, Viaggio in Persia, p. 342 (1865). 

 Vesperus bottse, Pet<;rs, MB. Akad. Berl. 1869, p. 406. 

 Vesperus shiraziensis, Dobson, Journ. Asiat. Sac. Beng. 1871, p. 459. 



Head flat, almost level with the face-line ; muzzle thick, conical ; 

 glandular prominences less developed than in the species of the sub- 

 genus Vesperugo ; nostrils opening sublaterally, separated by a nar- 

 row slightly concave space. Ears slightly shorter than the head ; 

 laid forwards the tips extend more than midway between the eye 

 and the end of the nose ; inner basal lobe rounded, lower third of 

 inner margin very convex forwards, the upper two thirds faintly 

 convex, broadly rounded at the tip ; the upper half of the outer 

 margin straight, then convex, emarginate opposite the base of the 

 tragus, and terminating in a convex lobe ending on a level with the 

 angle of the mouth directly below the posterior angle of the eye. 

 Tragus about twice as long as broad, reaching its greatest width 

 slightly above the base of the inner margin, then lessening in width 

 to the tip, which is obtusely pointed ; inner margin straight or 

 faintly concave. 



Thumb with a small callosity at the base. Wings from the 

 metatarsus close to the base of the toes. Postcalcaneal lobe shal- 

 low. Last two caudal vertebrae free, the projecting portion of the 

 tail nearly as long as the thumb. 



The face is covered with very short fur; but the upper lip is 

 fringed with straight hairs, which also cover the chin, radiating 

 outwards from a small central wart beneath. 



The fur of the back is moderately long, and scarcely extends upon 

 the wing-membrane, except in the immediate vicinity of the sides 

 of the body and on the interfemoral membrane at the root of the 

 tail; beneath, the vring-membrane is covered to a greater extent, 

 and fine thinly spread hairs pass out along the posterior margin of 

 the humerus and forearm to the carpus ; the fur of the abdomen 

 scarcely extends to the interfemoral membrane, but very fine, almost 

 invisible hairs arise from the transverse dotted lines with which it 

 is marked. 



