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Rehn (1904a) in his revision of the genus, has likewise referred to the 

 Cuban subspecies three specimens in the National Museum collection 

 from the mountainside near Nueva Gerona, Isle of Pines. Miller 

 (1904) records specimens taken in Cuba by William Palmer at Guana- 

 jay and El Cob re, in the first instance from a cave, in the second from 

 a copper mine. The predilection of this bat for underground caverns 

 is well known. Gundlach believed that those in the eastern part of 

 Cuba were larger than those from the western portion of the island. 



Otopterus waterhousii compressus (Rehn). 



Macrotus waterhousii compressus Rehn, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 

 Philadelphia, 1904, p. 434. 



The form of Otopterus occurring in the Bahama Islands has been 

 recognized as a subspecies on the ground of its narrow rostrum and 

 elongate-elliptical first lower premolar. The type specimen is from 

 Eleuthera Island, whence the National Museum possesses six examples 

 as well as one from Long Island, to the south. Mr. Rehn has also 

 examined a specimen from Andros Island, which is probably one of 

 three recorded by Dr. J. A. Allen (1890, p. 170) as taken there by 

 Dr. J. I. Northrop. At Nassau, New Providence, a considerable 

 colony inhabited the dungeon of old Fort Charlotte, but hitherto 

 the species has not been noted from the northern islands of the group 

 (Abacos and Great Bahama). 



LONCHORHINA AURITA Tomes. 



Lonchorhina aurita Tomes, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1863, p. 83. 



The specimen on which Tomes based this species was found by him 

 in a jar containing several species of West Indian bats, including 

 Mormoops blainviUii and Ptcronotus davyi, but unfortunately without 

 indication of locality. Seventeen years later a second example was 

 reported from ' New Grenada,' in the collection of the British Museum 

 (Dobson, Rept. Brit. Assoc, 1880, p. 196; p. 28 of separate). A 

 third specimen was recently found by Mr. G. S. Miller, Jr., in the 

 collection of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (No. 

 1770). This is an adult male, and was captured in Nassau Harbor, 

 New Providence, Bahamas (Miller, 1905, p. 382), and thus confirms, 

 in part, the supposed West Indian habitat of the species. No further 

 specimens are known. 



