14 ENSECTIVORA. 
Vespertilio murinoides, Lartet’. 
Hab. France. 
33265. Fragment of the left ramus of the mandible, containing the 
last premolar and the first and second true molars, as well 
as the alveoli of pm. Z and pm. 3 and of the canines; from 
the Middle Miocene of Sansan (Gers), France. This spe- 
cimen seems to agree with the enlarged figures given by 
Gervais in the Zool. et Pal. Francaises, 2nd ed. pl. xliv. 
figs. 5-7. Judging from the size of its alveolus, it appears 
that pm. 3 was relatively large; and it is therefore doubt- 
ful whether the species belongs to the genus in the sense 
in which it is employed in recent zoology. 
Presented by M. Ed. Lartet, 1858. 
33265 a. Distal half of the femur; from the Miocene of Sansan. 
Presented by M. Kd. Lartet, 1858. 
Vespertilio insignis, H. von Meyer’. 
Hab. Kurope. 
95452. The greater part of the humerus; from the Lower Mio- 
cene of Mayence. The specific distinctness of this form is 
very doubtful, as it was mainly named from the humerus ; 
there is equal doubt as to the correctness of the generic 
determination. Purchased, 1850. 
Order INSECTIVORA. 
It has been deemed advisable to follow the arrangement adopted 
in the Zoological Department of the Museum, and to place this order 
and the Chiroptera between the Primates and the Carnivora. The 
writer would, however, have preferred placing the present order after 
the Carnivora, in proximity to the Carnivora Primigenia, which 
would then have been placed after the existing Carnivora. As will 
be noticed below, it is highly probable that the present order should 
be regarded as a suborder of Carnivora. 
Notice sur la Colline de Sansan, p. 12 (1851). 
2 Neues Jahrb. 1845, p. 798. 
