vespertilian

• Putting all these vespertilian speculations out of our way, the human facts concerning colour are briefly these. —  Proserpina, Volume 1 Studies Of Wayside Flowers
• All these materialisms, in their unclean stupidity, are essentially the work of human bats; men of semi-faculty or semi-education, who are more or less incapable of so much as seeing, much less thinking about, colour; among whom, for one-sided intensity, even Mr. Darwin must be often ranked, as in his vespertilian treatise on the ocelli of the Argus pheasant, which he imagines to be artistically gradated, and perfectly imitative of a ball and socket. —  Proserpina, Volume 1 Studies Of Wayside Flowers

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