12. VESPERTILIO. 301 



Wings from the base of the toes ; calcaneum terminating in a 

 distinct small projection ; last caudal vertebra quite free ; feet rather 

 broad and flat. 



The face in front of the eyes is very thinly covered, and the lips 

 scarcely fringed except with a few fine hairs ; the inner surface of 

 the ear-conch is thinly covered with short hairs arising from small 

 glandular papiUaj ; the wing-membranes above and beneath are 

 almost naked, the fur of the body extending upon them along the 

 sides of the body only ; on the upper surface the base of the inter- 

 femoral is covered, beneath naked but thickly dotted over with 

 small white elevations. 



Fur very short above and beneath. On the dorsal surface bright 

 ferruginous red, dark or black at the base ; beneath, dark with ashy 

 extremities. 



Dentition quite similar to that of V. mystacinus. 

 Length (of an adult c?), head and body 1"'65, tail 1"'5, head 

 0"-6, ear 0"-5, tragus 0"-25, forearm l"-35, thumb 0"-3, third finger 

 2"-5, fifth finger l"-9, tibia 0"-55, calcaneum 0"-45, foot 0"-35. 

 ffab. West Africa. 



This species is readUy distinguished by its very narrow but 

 straight tragus, with a convex outer margin, and the shortness and 

 bright-red colour of the fur on the dorsal surface, together with its 

 size and shape of the ears, in which it resembles V. niystacinvs. 



a. (J ad., al. West Africa. Captain Burton [P.]. 



Subgenus Vespektilio. 



14. Vespertilio goudotii. 



Vespertilio goudotii, Smith, African Zoology, p. 132 (1834). 



Vespertilio madagascariensis, Tomes, P. Z. S. 1858, p. 89. 



P Vespertilio sylvicola *, Grandidier, Rev. et Mag. Zool. 1870, p. 49. 



Ears large, nearly as long as the head, rounded at the tips, with 

 a deep angular emargination occupying the upper third of the outer 

 margin, the remaining two thirds strongly convex and terminating 

 in a smaU lobe (Plate XIX. fig. 6) ; tragus moderate, on the 

 inner side convex, so that the acutely pointed attenuated extremity 

 inclines outwards, externally convex below, and slightly concave in 

 the upper third, at the base a well-defined horizontal lobide. Nos- 

 trils prominent, opening downwards and outwards, separated by a 

 shallow emargination above and in front. Crown of the head 

 vaulted behind the slender muzzle. 



Feet rather large ; the wing-membrane terminates at the end of 

 the tarsus ; the extreme tip of the tail free. 



Above, duU chestnut, the base of the hairs dusky ; beneath, the 

 extremities of the hairs are pale brown or slightly ashy, dull black 

 or dark brown at the base. 



* The type of this species has been lost, and the description is insufficient. 



