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LASIURUS. 



CALIFORNIA RED BAT. 



Type locality. Unknown, California? 



Geogr. Distr. Comondu, Lower California, Mexico, north to 

 Sacramento Valley. 



Genl. Char. Smaller than L. borealis; ear shorter, external basal 

 lobe reduced ; back of interfemoral membrane furred on basal third. 



Color. Above dark chestnut, hairs sometimes tipped with gray; 

 beneath paler; lower half of sides of neck white. 



Measurements. Total length, 96-107; tail vertebrae, 45-57; tibia, 

 19.6-20; foot, 6.6-8.6; forearm, 37-40; thumb, 6.4-7; longest finger, 

 74-82; ear from meatus, 9.4-10; width of ear, 9-9.8; tragus, 5.4-6. 

 Skull : occipito-nasal length, 1 2 ; zygomatic width, 10 ; mastoid breadth, 

 8; palatal length, 5 ; length of mandible, 9. 



c. mexicanus (Atalapha), Sauss., Rev. Mag. Zool., 2me Ser., xin, 



1861, p. 97. 



jrantzii Peters, Monatsb. K. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1871, p. 

 908. 



MEXICAN RED BAT. 



Type locality. Southern Mexico. 



Geogr. Distr. Tres Marias Islands, State of Jalisco, also in State 

 of Vera Cruz, Mexico, south into Central America. 



Genl. Char. Feet, interfemoral membrane, and beneath wings 

 less hairy than L. b. teliotis. 



Color. Same as L. b. teliotis. 



Measurements. Total length, 113.3; tail vertebrae, 57; foot, 8.1; 

 forearm, 41. 2; thumb, 7. 4; longest finger, 86. 5; tragus, 6.5. 



FIG. LXXXVIII. LASIURUS CINEREUS. 



No. 105259 U. S. Nat. Mus. Coll. Twice nat. size. 



