60 VESPERTILIONID^. 



CHEIROPTERA. VESPERTILIONIDJE. 



DAUBENTON'S BAT. 



Vespertilio Daubenionii. 



Ears oval, thi'ee-fourths the length of the head, very slightly notched on 

 the outer margin, with a fold on the inner margin at the base; tragus narrow- 

 lanceolate, rather obtuse, bending a little inwards, half the length of the 

 auricle : tail longer than the body. 



Vespeiiilio Dauientonii, Leislee. Kuhl, Deut. Fledenn. sp. 11, t. xxv. 

 f. 2. Deskar. Mammal, p. 141. Blasius, Faun. 

 Deutsch. p. 98, f. 66, 67. 

 ,, emarginatus, Jentks, Brit. Vert. p. 26. 

 ,, cedllis, Jentks, Ann. Nat. Hist. 1839, p. 73. 



,, maarodactylus Temm. Mon. Mam. II. p. 231, pi. 58, fig. 3, 4, 5. 

 ,, Yolgensis, Evbrs. Bull, de Moscou, 1840, I. p. 24. 



A CAREFUL examination of several specimens of the 

 species described by Mr. Jenyns, in his most useful 

 Manual, under the name of Vespertilio emarginatus, has 

 led to the conviction that the Bat so designated by him 

 is the true V. Daubentonii of Kuhl and Desmarest, and 

 not the V. emarginatus of Geoffroy. Mr. Jenyns most 



