( r I- 1 1 1- I'll I Xnti'X. 1")") 



upright portion of the noselcaf is "much narrower than the horse 

 shoe," and the prominences on the chin are of very peculiar form. In 

 M. inicrotix the upright portion of the noseleaf is fully as wide as the 

 'horse-shoe,' and the prominences on the chin are exactly as in normal 

 members of the genus. (1 errit S. \nilcr, Jr. 



The systematic name of the Cuban red bat. 



In Ramon do la Sacra's Ilistoria Fisica Politicay Natural <le la Isla de 

 Cuba, III, p. '>2, 1845, Gervais describes the cuban red bat as Vesperfilio 

 hluxitcrittii. Publication of the name he attributes to Lesson and Garnot, 

 "Bull. Sc. Nat. VIII, p. 95." This reference I have not been able to 

 verify, but it unquestionably antedates the publication of Gundlach's 

 name Atnln/i/tfi iift'ifferi (18til) by sixteen years. The animal should 

 therefore be known as Luxinnix hlnxxt-rinii. (icrrit N. Miller, Jr. 



Note on the Vespertilio blythii of Tomes.* 



In 1857 Tomes published a description of the Indian representative of 

 Mt/nti* myotix under the name Vespertilio blythii (Proc. Zool. Hoc. Lon 

 don, 1857, p. 53). Recent authors have without exception regarded the 

 animal as identical with the European form. A specimen collected by Dr. 

 YV. L. Abbott in Kashmir (9 adult No. '$\*^ United States National 

 Museum) shows, however, that this view is not correct, and that Myotix 

 blythii is a well characterized species, readily distinguishable from M. 

 iitynfixhy its shorter ears, much smaller audital bulhe, and by a peculiar 

 ity in the form of the maxillary molars. In these teeth the protocone 

 is lower and further removed from the paracone than in M. myotix, 

 a character which is at once appreciable when the teeth of the two 

 species are viewed in profile from the front. This peculiarity is evi- 

 dently of considerable importance, as I can find no appreciable variation 

 in the form of the molars among a large number of European speci 

 mens of M. myotix. Otcrrit <v. Millct\ Jr. 



The Scotophilus pachyomus of Tomes a valid species. 



Described in 1857 (Proc. Zool. Soc. London, p. 50) from specimens 

 taken in India the faotophtfot* pat-kyomus of Tomes has of recent years 

 been regarded as inseparable from the European Serotine Bat (see 

 Dobson, Catal. C'hiropt. Brit. Mus.. p. 101, and Blanford, Mamm. Brit. 

 India, p. : > >0:5). Two individuals taken by Dr. W. L. Abbott in the Vale 

 of Kashmir and now in the United States National Museum (Nos. Iff ft 

 and |i';,V-) agree in all respects with the characters given by Tomes and 



;f This note and the four following are published here by permission 



of the Secretarv of the Smithsonian Institution. 



