VESPERTILIO KUHLII. 17 



monest Bat in Tuscany and near Eome. Is found in 

 Sicily. 



Vespertilio Kuhlii. 



Vespertilio Kuhlii, Tbmm. Monog. vol. ii. p. 196 ; Desm. Mamm. Sp. 

 212. 



Description. — Incisors very unequal in size, those next 

 the canines extremely small. Upper molars five in number, 

 of which one false molar is scarcely visible, being hidden 

 between the molars and canines, and falls out in adults. 

 In size a little smaller than V. Pvpistrellus, for which it 

 may be easily mistaken. Head wide ; muzzle blunt ; a tuft 

 of stiff hairs over the eyes; ears completely triangular, 

 neither notched nor lobed on the outer margin, wide at 

 base ; tragus wide, rounded at the end, bending a little 

 towards the head ; skin black ; wing-membranes and upper 

 half of interfemoral hairy, the latter with a small lobe. 

 Fur of two colours throughout ; more abundant and rather 

 longer than in V. Pipistrellus, a wide belt of greyish hairs 

 running along the flanks and over the lower part of the 

 back. Fur above reddish brown, the base of the hairs being 

 blackish ; on the under parts the fur is lighter than in the 

 Pipistrelle ; membranes very smooth, quite black ; a few 

 bristly hairs on the thumb and toes. Distinguished from 

 the last-named species by the shape of the ear and tragus, 

 the greyish belt of hair along the sides, and, above all, by 

 the decidedly hairy character of the interfemoral mem- 

 brane. 



Length of head and body, 1 inch 9 lines ; tail, 1 inch 



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



4 to 8 lines in adults ; only 7 inches 6 lines in the young 

 of the year. — F. M.. 



Found in Dalmatia, Carniola, and the South of Italy. 

 A few have been taken at Trieste by M. Natterer. 



