VESPERTILIO LANOSUS.— Smith. 
Mammalia. — Plate L. 
V. corporis colore superne flavo-brunneo, pilis argenteis variegato, inferno rubn albo, pilis ad basin mgro 
brunneis ; auribus externe emarginatis; membrana interfemorali postice ciliata ; pilis ano 5 is 
subcirratis. 
Longitudo e nasi apice ad basin caudse 2 unc. 3 lin. ; caudas 1 unc. 6 lin. 
Colour. The fur of the upper and lateral parts of the head, of the neck, 
and of the back, three coloured, viz., towards, and at the point, dirty white, 
or pale sienna-yellow, at the middle intermediate between brownish red and 
yellowish brown, and towards, and at the base liver-brown ; the points of 
some of the hairs of the back are silvery white. The fur of the sides of the 
head, the throat, the breast, and the belly, is dirty reddish white towards the 
surface, and towards the base pale liver-brown, that which is thinly sprinkled 
on the upper surface of the interfeinoral membrane at its base, is diity white. 
Wing and interfermoral membranes dark brownish red. Ears pale biownish 
purple-red, tinted with flesh-red. 
Form, &c. — Figure slender; head broad ; ears rather large and somewhat 
semicircular, the outer edge {helix) immediately below the highest point 
emarginate, or as if a small portion of it, nearly a line and a half in length, 
had been cut out, at the lowermost point the ear is truncated ; tragus, long, 
narrow, and slightly curved. Nose depressed, bare, and rounded, the nostrils 
situated on its edge, one on each side. Wings from anterior to posterior 
ed°e rather wide; from tip to tip rather short ; the antebrachial membrane 
extends from the point of the shoulder to the base of the thumb. The 
interdigital spaces much veined ; the veins close to the sides of the body, 
numerous, and slightly oblique. Interfemoral membrane large and five- 
sided, the two hinder sides where they unite form a prominent angle behind, 
at which the tail terminates ; this membrane, like that of the wings, is freely 
veined, the veins nearly all with a slightly oblique course from the sides 
