304 VESPERXILIONID^. 



the intorfemoral is friaged by a few short fine hairs. Beneath, the 

 wing-membrane is covered with very few fine hairs ranged along 

 the transverse lines as far as a line drawn from the elbow to the 

 knee, and the interfemoral has a patch of thinly spread hairs about 

 the root of the tail. The face is rather thickly covered with short 

 hairs ; the margin of the upper lip is fringed with long hairs, and 

 the chin is similarly covered ; the ear-conch is clothed internally 

 with short hairs arising from papillse, as in Kerivoula, but the 

 integument of the ears is rather thicker than in the species of that 

 genus. 



Fur, above, dark brown at the base, then light brown with reddish- 

 brown tips; beneath, similar, with miich lighter-coloured extremities. 

 Ears and membranes reddish brown. 



The first upper premolar stands in the tooth-row, is about half 

 the vertical height of the third premolar, and the bases of these teeth 

 nearly touch ; the second premolar is very small, not one third the 

 size of the first premolar, and is crushed inwards ; the first lower 

 premolar is somewhat more than half the vertical height of the 

 canine; the second premolar is scarcely two thirds the size of the 

 first ; and the third premolar exceeds the first molar in vertical 

 extent. 



Length (of an adult $ preserved in spirit), head and body 1"'75, 

 tail l"-65, head 0"*75, ear 0"-75, tragus 0"-35, forearm 1"'58, thumb 

 0"-35, third finger 2"-55, fourth finger 2"*1, fifth finger 2"-l, tibia 

 0"-75, foot 0"-38. 



Hab. Middle and Southern Europe, extending from France and 

 Rhenish Prussia to Italy. 



Var. a {Vespertilio desertormn). 



Vespertilio desertorum, Dobson, Blanford, Ami. ^ M. N. H. 1875, 

 xvi. p. 309; Dobson, Monogr. Asiat. Chiropt. p. 144 (1876) ; Blan- 

 ford, Eastern Persia, ii. p. 20, with woodcut of head (1877). 



Similar to V. emarginatus in structure, b\it distinguished by its 

 greater size, much lighter colour of the fur and membranes, and 

 especially by the upper incisors, which are parallel and close 

 together. 



Calcaneum distinct, terminating in a weU-marked small project- 

 ing lappet of skin ; ears very thin ; glandular papillae distinct. 



Fur, above and beneath, very light-coloured ; ears and inter- 

 femoral membranes pale yellowish white ; wing-membranes dusky 

 white. 



The fur on the back is tricoloured, dark at the base, then pale 

 straw-coloured, the extremities very Hght reddish brown ; beneath, 

 dark at the base of the hairs, the extremities very pale straw-colour. 



Length (of an adult 2 preserved in spirit), head and body 2"-l, 

 head 0"-75, tail l"-6, ear 0"-65, tragus 0"-35, forearm l"-75, thumb 

 0"-35, third finger 2" 8, fourth finger 2"-25, fifth finger 2"-35, 

 tibia 0"-8, calcaneum 0"-5, foot 0"-45. 



Hab. Baluchistan. 



