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distinguish this genus among the members of the European fauna. 

 About a dozen forms have been described, one of which occurs 

 in southern Europe. 



MINIOPTERUS SCHREIBERSII Kuhl. 



1819. Vespertilio schreibersii Kuhl, Ann. Wetterau. Gesellsoh. Naturk., iv 

 (= Neue Ann., i), pt. 2, p. 185 (Hungary). 



1837. Vespertilio ursinii Bonaparte, Ioonogr. Faun. Ital., I, fasc. xxi 

 (Monte Corno, Ascoli, Italy). Type in British Museum. 



1841. Vespertilio orsinii Tern mi nek, Monogr. de Mamm., n, p. 179 (modi- 

 fication of ursinii). 



1857. Miniopterus schreibersii Blasius, Saugethiere Deutschlands, p. 46. 



1878. Miniopterus schreibersii Dobson, Catal. Chiropt. Brit. Mus., p. 348. 



1910. Miniopterus schreibersi Trouessart, Faune Mamm. d'Europe, p. 34. 



Type locality. — Kulmbazer Cave, mountains of southern 

 Bannat, Hungary. 



Geographical distribution. — Southern Europe from the Iberian 

 Peninsula eastward, north to Switzerland and Hungary. Limits 

 of range not known. 



Diagnosis. — Charaters as in the genus ; forearm about 

 43 mm. 



External characters. — General form rather slender, with long 

 tail and legs, wing broad at base but conspicuously tapering at 

 tip, and short ears with a peculiar truncate aspect. Muzzle 

 rather broad, though without conspicuous glandular swellings, 

 its greatest width about equal to distance from eye to nostril ; 

 muzzle pad narrow, with slight median emargination, bounded 

 below by a low horizontal ridge which is continuous with projecting 

 inner margin of nostril. Eyelids noticeably glandular-swollen ; 

 a deep horizontal groove in cheek below eye. Ear short, extend- 

 ing about half way from eye to nostril when laid forward, its 

 general aspect different from that of any other European bat, 

 owing to the length of the anterior basal lobe, the short, straight 

 anterior border, and the broadly, evenly convex posterior border 

 which joins anterior border in such a manner that there is 

 practically no " tip," the whole anterior border appearing like an 

 obliquely, almost artificially truncate extremity ; antitragus low, 

 obscurely marked off from posterior border of conch, practically 

 continuous with lower lip anteriorly ; inner surface of conch 

 slightly rugose, without evident cross ridges ; tragus about half 

 as high as conch, a little curved forward owing to slight con- 

 cavity of anterior border, the blunt tip and upper half of exterior 

 border forming a uniform, rather noticeable convexity, the 

 posterior margin straight below to rudimentary basal lobe ; 

 greatest width of tragus about half anterior border. Wing rather 

 wide basally, the fifth finger exceeding forearm by about one-fifth 

 length of latter, the tip unusually slender and elongate owing to 

 the great length of last bone of third finger ; third and fourth 



