T28 VESPERTILIONID^— VESPERTILIO 



aristippe of Bonaparte; preoccupied by Vesperus of Latreille, 1829, a genus of 



Coleoptera. 

 1 84 1. NOCTULA (sub-genus of Pipistrellus), C. L., Prince Bonaparte, Fauna Italica, 



i., xxi. (under Vespertilio alcythoe) ; based on Vespertilio serotinus of Schreber. 

 1856. Cateorus (sub-genus), F. A. Kolenati, Allgemeine deutsche Naturhist. Zeitung 



(Dresden), Neue Folge, ii., 131, 162-163 \ based on serotinus, i.e.. La Serotine of 



Daubenton. 

 1856. Meteorus (sub-genus), F. A. Kolenati, op. cit., ii., 131, 163-167 ; included 



nilssoni of Blasius, discolor of Kuhl, leucippe, aristippe, and savii, all of Bonaparte • 



preoccupied by Meteorus of Halliday, 1835, a genus oi Hymenoptera. 

 1858. Amblyotus, F. a. Kolenati, Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akad. der 



Wissenschaften (Vienna), xxix. (9), 252 ; based on A. atratus of Kolenati= Vesperugo 



nilssoni of Keyserling and Blasius. 



1863. "Aristippe, F. A. Kolenati, Beitrdge zur Kenntniss der Phthiriomyiarien, 

 Petersburg, 1863" (thus in Koch, Das Wesentliche der Chiropteren, etc., 471, 473, 

 1863, under Meteorus) ; included V. discolor of Natterer= V. murinus of Linnaeus 

 and Vesperugo nilssoni of Keyserling and Blasius. 



1864. SCOTOPHILUS, Harrison Allen, Monograph of the Bats of North America, 28 

 (part). 



1866. Pachyomus, J. E. Gray, Ann. and Mag. Nat Hist, 90, February ; based on 

 Scotophilus pachyomus of Tomes. 



1870. Nyctiptenus, L, J. Fitzinger, Sitzungsberichte cit. supra, Ixii. (i), 424; based 

 on Vespertilio smithii of Wagner. 



1872. Marsipol^mus, W. Peters, Monatsberichte der Koniglich Akad. der Wissen- 

 schaften (Berlin), 260, a sub-genus of Vesperugo based on Vesperus {M.) albigularis 

 of Peters = V. ?nurinus of Linnseus. 



1878. Vesperugo, G. E. Dobson, Catalogue of the Chiroptera in the Collection of the 

 British Museum, 183 (part) ; included also Nyctalus, Pipistrellus, and others. 



1892. Adelonycteris, Harrison Allen, Proc. Acad. Nat. Science, 466, Philadelphia 

 (December 8, 1891) ; proposed as a substitute for Vesperus. 



Classification and synonymy: — The use of the generic term 

 Vespertilio has been fully explained on pages 50-51. 



M. Mdhely uses Rafinesque's name Eptesicus for the serotinus- 

 fuscus group, restricting the name Vespertilio to the remainder of 

 the genus as here understood. Mr Thomas has pointed out 

 the objections to this proposal {Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., July 

 1901, 31-32). A more recent arrangement, that of Mr Miller, 

 makes the division between V. murinus as sole representative of 

 Vespertilio, and the remaining species as Eptesicus. This will 

 probably meet with general acceptance, since the short broad 

 tragus and large nares of typical Vespertilio are quite character- 

 istic, and not in accord with those of the other members of the 

 genus. The present work was written too early for its adoption. 



As defined in the, present work, this genus includes a 

 number of species of collectively wide distribution. The 



