VESPERTILIO ALBOLIMBATUS. 25 



Vespertilio albolimbatus. 



Vespertilio albolimbatus, Buoif. Faun. Ital. (figured). 

 Vesperugo Kuhlii, Blasius, Wirbelth. Deutschl. 



Description. — Teeth 32 in number. The muzzle fur- 

 nished with scattered, dark hairs, blackish, swollen, rather 

 short, the space from the ears to the top of the nose is 

 little greater than that between the ears, the nose, as it 

 were, sunk between the swollen nostrils; ears three-fourths 

 of the length of the head, oval-triangular, with rounded 

 tips, not notched, but with a conspicuous fold on the out- 

 side at base, expanded, with whitish hairs inside ; tragus 

 as long as the feet, slender, long-oval ; wings very thin, 

 when folded to the body reaching a little beyond the tip 

 of the nose, furnished near the body with scattered whitish 

 hairs ; general colour blackish, with white transverse veins, 

 edged with white for the whole extent of the hinder mar- 

 gin, which edging increases in size between the last finger 

 and the foot, forming a whitish curved space inside the 

 wing, about a quarter of an inch broad ; the interfemoral 

 membrane is of a lighter colour than the wings, slightly 

 curved on the margin, which is edged with white ; the feet 

 free, claws white. Fur of the head and back dull cinna- 

 mon-grey, becoming pale towards the tail, the bases of the 

 hairs blackish ; body beneath ashy white with a yellowish 

 tinge, lightest near the tail ; bases of the hairs always black 

 for a large portion of their length ; tail and membrane 

 clothed with scattered yellowish hairs on both sides. 



Length (in a very young specimen) of head and body, 

 1 inch 2 lines ; of the tail, 1 inch 5 lines ; of the fore-arm, 

 1 inch 4 lines ; extent of wings, 7 inches 4 lines. 



Flight rapid ; appears late in the evening. 



Has been found only in the Island of Sardinia. Abun- 



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