I30 VESPERTILIONID^— VESPERTILIO 



Only one species, V. serotinus, is a regular member of the 

 British Fauna, but V. murinus has twice been taken at or 

 near seaports. 



THE SEROTINE. 



VESPERTILIO SEROTINUS, Schreber. 



1760. La SEROTINE, L. J. M. Daubenton in E. L. le Clerc, Comte de Buffon's 



Histoire Naturelle, viii., 129, pi. xviii., fig. 2 ; also, MSm. de I' Acad. Roy. des Set., 



377 and 380, pi. ii. (15), fig. 2, 1759, published 1765 ; described from France. 

 1774. VESPERTILIO SEROTINUS, J. C. D. von Schreber, Die Sdugthiere, i, pi. liii., 



167, evidently naming Daubenton's La Serotine; Jenyns ; Bell (ed. i) ; Clermont; 



Dobson ; Flower and Lydekker ; Miller ; Thomas, Zoologist, 1898, 100 ; Johnston ; 



Cabrera ; Millais. 

 1806. VESPERTILIO NOCTULA, Isidore Geoflfroy, Ann. du Mus. d'Hist. Nat.,y'i\\., 193, 



pis. 47 and 48 ; transference of name in error. 

 181 1. VESPERTILIO MURINUS, P. S. Pallas, ZoograpMa Rosso-asiatica, i., 121, No. 



46 ; preoccupied by V. murinus of Linnaeus, 1758. 



181I. VESPERTILIO SEROTINA, auct. et Op. cit, I23. 



1827. VESPERTILIO WIEDII, C. L. Brehm, Ornis (Jena), iii., No. 3, 24; described 



from Jena, Germany. 

 1827. VESPERTILIO OKENI, auct. et Op. cit., iii.. No. 4, 25 ; described from Jena, 



Germany. 

 1829. VESPERTILIO RUFESCENS, auct. cit, Oken's Isis (Jena), 643 ; described from 



Jena, Germany. 



1838. SCOTOPHILUS SEROTINUS, J. E. Gray, Mag. Zool. and Bot., 497 j MacGillivray; 

 Bell (ed. 2). 



1839. Vesperugo (vesperus) SEROTINUS, A. Graf von Keyserling and J. H. 

 Blasius, Wiegmann's Archiv fUr Naturgeschichte, i., 313 ; Dobson ; Blanford. 



1844. VESPERTILIO INCISIVUS, J. Crespon, Faune Mdridionale, i., 26 ; described from 



Nimes, France. 

 1844. VESPERTILIO PALUSTRIS, auct. et Op. cit, 22 ; described from Nimes, France. 



1856. Cateorus SEROTINUS, F. A. Kolenati, Allgemeine deutsche Naturhist. Zeitung 

 (Dresden), Neue Folge, ii., 131, 162-163. 



1857. VESPERUGO SEROTINUS, J. H. Blasius, Sdugethiere Deutschlands, 76 ; Lydekker. 

 1862-1863. Cateorus serotinus, var. typus, var rufescens, and var. pallidus; 



Carl Koch, Jahrbiicher des Vereinsfiir Naturkunde im Herzogthum (Nassau), xviii., 

 463-467, etc. ; described from middle Europe, south Europe, and the " die steppen 

 SUd-Russlands " respectively : the latter apparently = V. turcomanus of Eversmann. 



1870. Vesperus serotinus, L. J. Fitzinger, Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akad. 

 der Wissenschaften (Vienna), Ixii. (i), 88. 



1900. Eptesicus serotinus, M^hely Lajos, Monographia Chiropterorum Hungariae, 

 209, 340, pi. xiv. ; Miller ; Trouessart (1910). 



La Serotine of the French ; die spdtfliegende Fledermaus of the 

 Germans. 



Serotine from the French sdrotin, from the Latin serotinus, i.e., late 

 or backward 



" Rattle-mouse" of Wight (Guyon, Zoologist, 1856, 5216). 



