26 CHEIROPTERA. 



dant near Cagliari along the coast. Frequents buildings, 

 and is never met with in caves. 



Vespertilio Alcythoe. 



Vespertilio Alcythoe, Buon. Faun. ltd. ; Temm. Monog. vol. ii. p. 198 



(figured). 

 Vesperugo Kuhlii, Blasius, Wirbelth. Deuteehl. 



Desceiption. — Upper incisors very unequal in size ; molars 

 tZ.t > °f which one on each side below -is false. Easily 

 mistaken at first sight for the young of V. serotinus. Skull 

 depressed as in that species, and the tragus of the same 

 shape ; it can, however, be distinguished from it by its 

 smaller size, the colour of its fur, and its sharper ears ; the 

 space from the ears to the tip of the nose equals in length 

 that between the ears ; the nose is depressed at the top, 

 and slightly notched between the nostrils; the distance 

 between the eyes equals that from the eye to the tip of the 

 nose ; the region of the eyes is naked, the eyebrows long 

 and silky ; ears small, slightly pointed, without notches, 

 their width half as great as their length ; tragus half as 

 long as the auricle, semicordate, and pointed; tail not 

 reaching beyond the membrane ; the wings, when folded 

 and pressed close to the body, reach to the nose. Pur long 

 and thick ; on the muzzle and forehead Isabel-grey ; the 

 hairs on the back blackish from the base for half their 

 length, the upper halves grey, those on the belly blackish 

 at their base, cinnamon-colour towards their points ; the 

 membranes along the legs and thighs clothed with dark 

 reddish hairs. In colour resembling V. Vispistrellus, but 

 differing from it in the shape of the ears and skull. 



Length of the head and body, 1 inch 8 lines; tail, 1 inch 

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

 2 lines.— F. M. 



