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22. Vespertilio murinus. 



Vespertilio murinus, Schreb. Siiugeth. i. p. 165, pi. li. (1775) ; Oeoffroy, 

 Ann. du Musium, viii. p. 191 ; Bonap. Fauna Italica, fasc. xxi. 

 (1831) ; Temminck, Motiogr. Mammal, ii. p. 177 (1835-41) ; Bell, 

 Brit. Quad?-, p. 37, fig. (1837) ; De Selys-Longchamps, Fauna Beige 

 (1843) ; Wagner, Suppl. Schreb. SaugetA. i. p. 490, v. p. 723 ; Blasius, 

 Fauna Deutschl. p. 82, figs. 66, 67 (1857) ; Dobson, Mmogr. Asiat. 

 Chiropt. pp. 137, 139, fig. b (ear) (1876). 



Vespertilio myotis, Bechstein, Naturg. DeutscM. p. 1 154 ; Kuhl, Deutsch. 

 Flederm. Ann. Wetter. Gesellsch. Naturk. p. 36 (1819). 



Vespertilio blythii, To7ms, P. Z. S. 1857, p. 63. 



Myotis murinus, Jerdon, Mammals of India, p. 46 (1867). 



Head slightly elevated above the face-line ; muzzle conical ; 

 nostrils close together in front ; ears large, laid forwards the tips 

 extend about one tenth of an inch beyond the end of the muzzle ; 

 horizontal basal lobe angular in front, the horizontal margin 

 joining the ascending part of the inner margin under a right angle ; 

 the lower fourth of the inner margin is straight, the remaining 

 portion regularly convex to the tip, which is rounded off ; outer 

 margin concave beneath the tip, straight or faintly convex about the 

 middle, emarginate opposite the base of the tragus, terminating in a 

 convex lobe opposite the base of the inner margin : tragus long, 

 narrow, and subacutely pointed ; inner margin straight, outer mar- 

 gin with an obliquely placed rounded lobe at the base, above which 

 it becomes convex, and the tragus reaches its greatest width oppo- 

 site the junction of the lower and middle thirds of its inner margin ; 

 the convexity of the outer margin rapidly lessening upwards, so that 

 it is straight in its upper half, not curved outwards (Plate XVIII. 

 fig. 10, ear, enlarged). 



Wings from the metatarsi near the base of the toes ; tail wholly 

 contained, except the last rudimentary vertebra, within the inter- 

 femoral membrane. 



Fur, above, light reddish or smoke-brown ; beneath, dirty white ; 

 the base of the hairs, above and beneath, dark. 



The second upper premolar is -scarcely half the first, both in ver- 

 tical extent and in cross section; it is generally much pressed inwards 

 in the angle between the first and third premolars. 



Length (of an adult $ preserved in alcohol), head and body 2" -8, 

 tail 2"-l, head 1", ear 1"-1, tragus 0"-45, forearm 2"-35, thumb 0"-5, 

 third finger 3"-9, fifth finger 3", tibia 1", foot 0"-5. 



Hah. Europe, Asia, Northern Africa, and Abyssinia, apparently 

 almost limited to the Palaearctic Eegion, and not extending further 

 north than Southern England and Denmark, 



a. ad. sk. England. 



6. ad. sk. France. 



c. ad. sk. St. Maurice, France. 



d. ad. sk. Moravia. Purchased. 



e. ad. sk. Hamburg. Dr. J. E. Gray [P.]. 



f. g. (S ad., al. Schlangenbad. Dr. Gtinther [P.]. 

 h. ad. sk. St. Gothard. 



ij. S ad., al. SeviUe, Spain. Lord Lilford [P.]. 



