28 CHEIROPTERA. 



Vespertilio Aristippe. 



Vespertilio Aristippe, Buon. Faun. Ital. (figured) ; Temm. Monog. vol. ii. 



p. 200. 

 Desceiption. — Molars |^|. Distinguished by its pointed 

 muzzle from V. Leucippe, which it resembles in size and 

 general appearance ; the ears also are notched nearer their 

 base than in that species. The muzzle is straight, slightly- 

 angular, indented a little between the nostrils, which are 

 small and narrow ; the gape scarcely reaches to below the 

 outer margin of the eye ; ears small, their width two-thirds 

 of their length, rounded at their tips ; tragus semi-elliptic, 

 one-third of the length of the auricle ; interfemoral mem- 

 „brane with a small external lobe, the two last joints of the 

 tail are free ; the wings, when folded against the body, reach 

 a little beyond the nose. Fur long and thick ; on the upper 

 parts dark chestnut at base, buif-colour at the points ; on the 

 lower parts deep ash, except at the points, which are a dirty 

 shining white ; membranes, nose, and ears quite black. 



Length of head and body, 1 inch 7 lines; tail, 1 inch 

 3 lines ; fore-arm, 1 inch 3 lines ; extent of wings, 8 inches 

 3 lines. — P. M. 



Temminck observes that this species is closely allied to, 

 if not identical with, V. Kuhlii. 



Procured in Sicily by the Prince of Musignano. 



Vespertilio Krascheninikovii. 



Vespentgo Krascheninikovii, Eversmann, Bulletin de la Soc. Imp. 

 des Naturalistes de Moscou, 1853, No. iv. p. 487 ; Annals 

 and Magazine of Nat. Hist. February 1857. 

 Description. — The two central incisors in the upper jaw 

 bifid, the outer simple, minute ; grinders 5 Zi\ > in all 34 

 teeth. Ears shorter than the head, wide, subtriangular, 

 rounded ; tragus uniform, not half as long as the ear. Fur 

 black, with the tips of the hairs grey. 



