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CHIROPTEKA 



Genus VESPERTILIO Linnaeus. 



1758. Vespertilio Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., i, 10th ed., p. 31 (murinus by 



tautonymy). 

 1839. Yesperugo Keyserling and Blasiua, Wiegmann's Archiv fur Natur- 



gesoh., 1839, 1, p. 312 (part). 

 1839. Vesperus Keyserling and Blasius, Wiegmann's Archiv fur Naturgesch., 



1839, i, p. 313. Sub-genus of Yesperugo (part). 



1856. Meteorus Kolenati, Allgem. deutsche Naturhist. Zeitung, Dresden, 



neue Folge, n, p. 131 (part). 



1857. Yesperus, misprinted Yesperugo Blasius, Saugethiere Deutschlands, 



p. 69 (Sub-genus of Yesperugo). 

 1863. " Aristippe Kolenati, Beitrage zur Kenntniss der Phthiriomyiarien, 



Petersburg, 1863" (part). 

 1872. Marsipoleemus Peters, Monatsber. k. preuss. Akad. Wissenseh., 



Berlin, p. 260 (Sub-genus of Yesperugo for albigularis = murinus). 

 1878. Yesperus Dobson, Catal. Chiropt. Brit. Mus., p. 183. Sub-genus of 



Yesperugo (part). 

 1897. Vespertilio Miller, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., 6th ser., xx, p. 384, 



October, 1897 (part). 

 1900. Yespertilio Mehely, Monogr. Chiropt. Hungarise, p. 219 (part). 

 1907. Vespertilio Miller, Families and Genera of Bats, p. 209, June 29, 1907. 



Type species. — Vespertilio murinus Linnaeus. 



Geographical distribution. — Forested northern portion of the 

 Palsearctic region from the Atlantic coast eastward through 

 Continental Asia. 



Characters. — Like Eptesicus, but ear much shortened and 

 broadened, rostrum flattened above, with deep concavity on 

 each side between nares and lachrymal region ; nares very large, 

 extending back nearly half way to interorbital constriction, and 

 palatal emargination extended so far laterally that its width is 

 distinctly greater than its depth. 



Remarks. — The genus Vespertilio as now restricted contains 

 only two species, V. murinus Linnaeus, and V. superans Thomas, 

 the former European, the latter Asiatic. The form of the skull 

 suggests in certain respects that of Nyctalus, and in others the 

 North American Lasionycteris. 



VESPERTILIO MURINUS Linnasus. 



1758. [Vespertilio] murinus Linnseus, Syst. Nat., i, 10th ed., p. 32 (Sweden). 



1819. Yespertilio discolor Kuhl, Ann. Wetterau. Gesellsch. Naturk., iv 

 (= Neue Ann., i), pt. 2, p. 187 (Vienna, Austria). 



1857. Yesperugo discolor Blasius, Saugethiere Deutschlands, p. 73. 



1872. Vesperus (Marsipoleemus) albigularis Peters, Monatsber. k. preuss. 

 Akad. Wissenseh., Berlin, p. 260 (Type supposed to have been 

 taken in Mexico ; for its reference to this species see Mehely, 

 Monogr. Chiropt. Hungarise, pp. 229, 341, 1900). 



1878. Yesperugo discolor Dobson, Catal. Chiropt. Brit. Mus., p. 204. 



1885. Vesperus siculus Daday, Orvos-Termeszettudomanyi Erteseto, Kolozs- 

 var, x, p. 275 (Homorod-ALmas cave, Hungary). See Mehely, 

 Monogr. Chiropt. Hungarise, pp. 229, 346, 1900. 



