180 Merriam' A New Bat from California. 



but since the detailed ranges of the two forms will be given 

 shortly in Mr. Gerrit S. Miller's Monographic Revision of the 

 Vespertilionida), they need not be repeated here. 



The type of the new form is selected from three specimens 

 shot by me at old Fort Tejon, California, on the evening of June 

 28, 1891. Two of these three specimens were females containing 

 large embryos, nearly ready for birth. 



Antrozous pallidus pacificus subsp. nov. 



Type from old Fort Tejon, Canada deslas Uvas, California. No. 29815, 

 cf, U. S. Nat. Mus., Biological Survey Coll. Collected June 28, 1891, by 

 C. Hart Merriam. Original No. 208. 



General characters. Similar to A. pallidw but uniformly larger (forearm 

 averaging 5 mm. or more longer) and darker; ears somewhat narrower 

 (breadth 18 or less instead of 21 or more) and less convex anteriorly, with 

 posterior edge of upper third slightly emarginate instead of straight. 



Color. Upper parts ochraceous buff', strongly washed with dusky ; 

 under parts rich buff instead of whitish. 



Measurements (of type, from alcoholic specimen). Head and body, 70 ; 

 tail, 43 ; head, 25 ; ear from external basal angle, 30 ; tragus from inner 

 base, 10 ; greatest breadth of ear, 17.5 ; forearm, 59 ; thumb, 11 ; 3d finger, 

 93; 5th finger, 73; tibia, 21 ; hind foot, 13. 



