VESPERTILIO LANOSUS. 
backwards toward the tail, which extends along the middle of the membrane. 
Hinder feet, small, slender, and superiorly thinly sprinkled with short hair ; 
the claws rather long, moderately strong, and not much curved. Thumb 
about two lines long, and very slender, the claw short, slightly curved and 
pointed. The first finger reaches to the distal end of the second joint of the 
second finger, the fourth, and the membrane connected with it at its point 
form a prominent semicircular or subtriangular projection, which extends con- 
siderably beyond any other part of the hinder edge of the wings. The ears, 
externally, are thinly covered with short hair. The face, head, neck, back! 
breast, and belly, with rather long and frizzy hair, much resembling wool. 
The base of the interfemoral membrane superiorly, with a thin sprinkling 
of short hair of the same description ; hinder edges of membrane fringed with 
very short, rather rigid hair. 
DIMENSIONS. 
In. Lines. 
Length from the nose to the base of 
the tail 2 3 
of the tail 1 (j 
of the head 0 7 
Expanse of the wings 9 10 
In. Lines. 
Length of the anti-brachium 1 4 .1 
of the first joint of first finger... 1 2| 
second finger 1 2g 
third finger 1 24 
fourth finger 1 2 J 
In respect of colours, the male and female of this species are nearly alike. 
The only specimens I obtained were killed in a wooded district stretching alon- the 
sea-shore, about two hundred miles to the eastward of Cape Town. Like other species 
of the genus, it appears as night sets in, and may then be seen flitting from spot to spot 
along the open spaces which exist here and there in different parts of the forest. ‘ 
