212 



VESPUKTILIOSIDiE. 



B. Base of the thumbs and soles of the feet with 

 adhesive cushions ; outer margin of the ear- 

 conch terminating- in a very distinct lohe. 



<p. Outer margin of the ear-conch ter- 

 minating in a round lobe ; tragus 

 with a small tooth-Kke projection 

 at the base ; outer incisors very 



short; forearm l"-2 42. V. tylopus, ^.23G. 



X- Outer margin of the ear-conch ter- 

 minating in a square lobe ; tragus 

 without a projection at the base ; 

 outer incisors nearly as long as the 

 inner ones; forearm l"-2 43. V. nanus, p. 237. 



23. Vesperugo noctula. 



Vespertilio noctula, Schreber, Smigeth. i. p. 166, pi. 52 (1775) ; Gmel. 



Linn. Syst. Reg. Aniin. i. p. 146 (1788) ; Desmarest, Mammalogie 



(1820), p. 136; Temm. Monocjr. Mamm. ii. p. 109 (1835-4i) ; 



Jenyns, Brit. VeHehr. p. 23 ; Bonap. Fauna Ital. fasc. xxi. (1837) ; 



BvlFs Brit. Quadriij}. p. 12, wdct. (1837); De Selys-Longch. Faune 



Beige, 1842. 

 Vespertilio maguus, Berhenhotit, Si/nop. Nat. Hist. Gt. Brit. 8f Irel. 



p. ii (1789). 

 Vespertilio altivolans, White, Nat. Hid. Selhorne (1789). 

 Vespertilio serotinus, Geoff. Ann. du Mas. viii. p. 194 (1806). 

 Vespertilio proterus, Kuhl, Wetter. Ann. iv. p. 41 (1817). 

 Vespertilio labiata, Hodgson, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Beng. iv. p. 700 (1836). 

 Scotophilus noctula, Gray, Mag. Zool. Sf Bot. ii. p. 497 (1838). 

 Vesperugo noctula, Keys. ^- Bias. Wiegm. Archiv, 1839, p. 317; J-F«V- 



belth. jEurop. p. 46 ; Wagner, Sitppl. Schreb. Sdugeth. v. p. 728 (1865) ; 



Blasius, Fauna Deutschl. p. 63, wdct. p. 54 (1857) ; Lilljeborg, 



Soer. Norges Ryqi/radsdjur, p. 134 (1874) ; Dobson, Monogr. Asiat. 



Chiropt. p. 88 (1876). 

 Vespertilio macuanus, Peters, Seise nach Mossambique, Saugeth. p. 61 



(1852). 

 Noctulinia noctula, Jerdon, Mam?n. of India, p. 36 (1867). 



Head broad and very flat, the labial glandular prominences well 

 developed, adding much to the breadth of the muzzle ; posteriorly 

 the raised rounded edge of these prominences forms the anterior 

 margin of a deep furrow, beyond which the long h air covering the 

 bead does not pass. Nostrils placed rather widely apart, with a 

 slightly concave intervening space, their inner edges scarcely pro- 

 jecting. Ears nearly as broad as long ; the base of the inner margin 

 very convex forwards, the ascending part straight, the tip very 

 broadly roiinded off, the outer margin convex and reflected back- 

 wards, forming in front of the trag-us a thickened convex lobe ter- 

 minating close to the angle of the mouth. Tragus short and curved 

 inwards above ; at the base of the outer margin a small triangular 

 projection succeeded by a concavity ; and above this the outer margin 

 becomes very convex, the inner margin correspondingly concave. 



Thumb short, with a short but acutely-pointed claw ; at the base of 

 the phalanx a small callosity. Feet thick ; toes short, about half the 



