VOL. XIH, PP. 123-127 APRIL 6, 1900 



PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON 



T1I1IEK NEW BATS FROM THE ISLAND OF 

 CURACAO.* 



1JV GERHIT S. MILLER, JR. 



Mr. Leon J. Guthrie, United States Weather Observer at 

 Willemstad, Curasao, West Indies, has obtained for the United 

 States National Museum a small collection of bats preserved in 

 formalin. Though representing only a fraction of the probable 

 bit fauna of the island, the three species taken are of special 

 interest, as all are new, while one is a member of a genus not 

 hitherto detected outside 1 of Mexico. 



Myotis nesopolus sp. nov. 



Type adult male (skin and skull from specimen in formalin) No. 101,- 

 849, United States National Museum, collected near Willemstad, Curayao, 

 West Indies. November 4, 1899. f 



Character, Similar to Myoti* nigricaw (AVied) from Colombia, but 

 paler in color, and slightly smaller. 



Color. Dorsal surface intermediate between the raw umber and 

 Fronts brown of Ridgway (Nomenclature of Colors, PL III, Nos. 11 and 

 14), the bases of the hairs just perceptibly darker. Ventral surface 

 ochraceous butt', the basal half of the hairs slaty black. 



tikull. The skull exactly resembles that of Myoti* niyrican* from 

 Santa Marta, Colombia and Chiapas, Mexico. 



Meaxurcwentx. External measurements of type: total length, 70; tail 

 vertebra 1 , :>(>: tibia. !">: foot. .">.(>; forearm, 31; thumb, 4; longest finger, 



*Fublished here by permission of the Secretary of the Smithsonian 

 Institution. 



f "Caught by Mr. L. B. Smith in an attic in Pimda." Collector's note. 

 27 BlOL. $00. WASH. Vol.. XIII. 1900. (123) 



