310 



VESPEKTILIONIDiE. 



k. 2 ad., al. 

 /. $ ad., al. 

 m. ad. sk. 

 n. 5 ad., al. 

 o, p. 5 ad., al 

 q. 5 imm., al. 

 r, s. ad. sk. 

 t. 5 , ad., al. 

 M. ad. sk, 



I), skull of s. 

 ir, .r. skulls. 



Sicily. 

 Sicily. 

 Algiers. 

 Tangiers. 

 Tunis. 

 Tunis. 

 El Jeen. 

 Abyssinia. 

 India. 

 (Type of V. hlythii, Tomes.) 



Lake of Constance. 



St. George Mivart [P.]. 

 Verreaux Coll. 

 Purchased. 

 Purchased. 

 Purchased. 

 Purchased, 

 Purchased. 

 Warwick Coll. 



Dr. Gunther [P.], 



23. Vespertilio africanus. 



Vespertilio africanus, Dobson, Ann. 8^ Mag. Nat. Hist. vol. xvi. p. 260 

 (1876). 



Ears shorter than the head ; laid forwards the tips do not reach 

 to the end of the muzzle ; tragus straight, acutely pointed (Plate 

 XVIII, fig. 11, ear, enlarged). Glands on the side of the muzzle 

 forming a conspicuous rounded elevation on either side between the 

 eye and nostril. 



Fur, above, dark at the base, with greyish extremities ; beneath, 

 the basal half of the hairs is dark, the terminal half white. 



Distribution of the fur and dentition as in V. murirms. 



Length (of an adult c3' preserved in alcohol), head and body 2"-o, 

 tail 2"-3, head 0"-9, ear 0"-85, tragus 0"-4x0"-l, forearm 2"-2, 

 thumb 0"-45, third finger 3"-7, fifth finger 3", tibia l"-05, foot 0"-45. 



Hah. Western Equatorial Africa (Gaboon). 



This species is very closely allied to V. muriims, but is at once 

 distinguished by the much shorter ears, acutely pointed tragus, and 

 great development of the glands of the muzzle. The wing-membrane 

 also does not extend so far outwards along the foot as in V. murinus, 

 and the inner side of the ear-conch is less hairy. 



a. tS ad., al. (type). Gaboon, West Africa. Purchased. 



24. Vespertilio murinoides. 



Vespertilio murinoides, Dobson, Jotirn. Asiat. Soc. Beng. 1873, p. 205 ; 

 Monogr. Asiat. Chiropt. p. 139, fig. a (1876). 



Ears slightly shorter than the head ; general form of the ear- 

 conch triangTilar, with narrow rounded tips ; the inner margin very 

 faintly convex, almost straight in its upper third ; the outer margin 

 concave beneath the tip, the remaining portion convex, with a faint 

 concavity opposite the base of the tragus. 



In Vespertilio murinus the inner margin of the ear is strongly 

 convex from the base to the tip, the concavity of the outer margin 

 beneath the tip is very feeble, and there is a distuict emargination, 

 almost angular, opposite the base of the tragus, succeeded by a well- 

 developed terminal lobe ; the general form of the ear, moreover, is 

 oval, not triangular. 



The tragus is slender and acutely pointed, with a quadrangular 



