PIPISTRELLUS. VESPERTILIO. 585 



Color. Above reddish brown; beneath paler. 

 Measurements. Length of head and body, 50; tail, 45; forearm, 

 38.7; thumb, 7.5; tibia, 15; foot, 9.5; ear, 12.5; tragus, 5. 



556. cinnamomeus (Pipistrellus} , Miller, Proc. Acad. Nat. Scien. 



Phil., 1902, p. 390. 

 CINNAMON BAT. 



Type locality. Montechristo, State of Tabasco, Mexico. 



Genl. Char. Size large; skull long, narrow; color uniform; upper 

 inner incisor smaller than outer; first and second upper molars with 

 an indicated hypocone. 



Color. Uniform cinnamon, slightly inclined to yellow on under 

 parts; ears and membranes brown. 



Measurements. Total length, 99 ; tail, 44 ; forearm, 37 ; thumb, 6.8 ; 

 second finger, 35; third finger, 63; fourth finger, 53; fifth finger, 47; 

 tibia, 15.4; foot, 9.6; ear from meatus, 11.4; from crown, 9; width of 

 ear, 7. Skull: greatest length, 15; basal length, 14; basilar length, 

 1 1. 6; palatal length, 6; width of palate between middle molars, 3; 

 interorbital constriction, 4; zygomatic breadth, 9; width of braincase, 

 above roots of zygomata, 7.2; length of mandible, 11.4; length of 

 upper tooth row, 5.8. 



VESPERTILIO as now restricted has comparatively few members, 

 but among them are the largest species of the Vespertilionine 

 group. In North America there are but three species of the genus, 

 with several more or less closely connected races. 



116. * Vespertilio. 



T 2 2. p i i. p i i. M 3-3 _ 



L F3' U M ; F '^' M -F3-32. 

 Vespertilio Linn. Syst. Nat., i, 1758, p. 31; i, 1766, p. 46. Type 



Vespertilio murinus Linnaeus, (nee Schreber.) 

 Eptesicus Rafin., Ann. Nat., i, 1820, p. 2. 

 Cnephaus Kaup, Skizzirte Entw.-Gesch. u. Naturl. Syst. Europ. 



Thierw., i, 1829, p. 103. 



Noctula Bonp., Iconog. Faun. Ital., i, 1837, fasc. xxi. 

 Vesperugo Keyserl. & Bias., Wiegm., Archiv. f. Naturg., 1839, 

 Bd. i, p. 312. (Part.) 



*For reasons for adopting this term rather than Eptesicus Rafin., as ad- 

 vised by M6hely (Mon. Chirop, Hung. 1900, pp. 206-308), see Thomas, Ann. 

 Mag. Nat. Hist, 7th Ser., vn, 1901, p. 462, and vm, p. 32. 



