16 CHEIROPTERA. 



not recognizing this distinction, says that the Pipistrelle 

 is a native of Italy ; and Blasius, of Sicily. It is very 

 common in Germany and Silesia. Pallas records it as 

 abundant in the Ural Mountains, and in the Crimea. In 

 Denmark, Gallicia, and Carniola. Is probably the most 

 common species of Central Europe generally. 



Vespertilio Yispistrellua. 



Vespertilio Vispistrellus, Temm. Monog. vol. ii. p. 193; Buon. Faun. 



Ital. (figured). 

 Vesfperugo Kuhlii, Blasius, Wirbelth. Deutschl. 



Description. — Closely allied to V. Pipistrellus, but differing 

 from it in size, being about one-sixth larger ; by the abs- 

 ence of false molars in the upper jaw, and by a slight 

 difference in the colour of the fur, which is somewhat red- 

 dish. The space from the nose to the ear is one-fourth 

 greater than that between the ears ; the nose blunt ; eyes 

 near the ears, which are two-thirds of the length of the 

 head, oval-triangular, rounded at the ends, and slightly 

 margined near the middle ; tragus narrow, bent, and of 

 the same width throughout ; space round the eyes and the 

 end of the nose naked ; tail scarcely longer than the fore- 

 arm, entirely within the membrane, which is ample, fur- 

 nished with a small lobe on its outer edge near the feet, 

 with a few scattered hairs upon its inner surface, and more 

 or less edged with white. Fur long and silky ; hairs above 

 brown at base, ashy red at their tips ; hairs on the forehead 

 and at the base of the ears yellowish at their tips. Fur on 

 the under parts of the body brownish, the hairs being 

 bright red-brown at their tips. 



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

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

 6 lines. — F. M. 



Inhabits the southern parts of Europe. Is the com- 



