80 Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 



A NEW NAME FOE OCHOTONA MINIMA. 



Lagomys minimus Lord (Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., i>. 98, 1863) is preoc- 

 cupied by Lagomys minimus Schinz (Das Thierreich, I, p. 320, 1821). 

 Therefore, a new name is required for the pika of southern British 

 Columbia described by Lord and now generally recognized as a valid 

 species without synonyms. I propose for it Ochotona fenisex. 



— Wilfred II. Osgood. 



SOME OVERLOOKED NAMES OF SICILIAN MAMMALS, 



In 1868 a catalog of the mammals of Sicily was published by Mina 

 Palumbo.* This paper contains the description of the well-known Pity- 

 mys nebrodensis (Mina Palumbo); hut the fact that other names appear 

 here for the first time has been generally overlooked. A recent paper by 

 Count Filippo Cavazzaf on the identity of the Vespertilio noctula var. 

 sicula of Mina Palumbo having called attention to the subject the paper 

 seems to merit a special note, particularly as all hut one of the new 

 names have escaped citation in the recent general works of Trouessari 

 and of Miller on the Mammals of Europe. The overlooked names are 

 as follows: 



V [espertilio] noctula var. sicula, page 1.'!. Type locality, Le Madonie, 



Although the name sicula has been substituted byCavazza lormaximus 

 Fatio as the earliest designation of the large European Nyctalus there can 

 he no doubt that it refers to Eptesicus serotinus. This is clearly shown 

 by the statement that the two terminal vertebra? of the tail are free, and 

 by the lengths of the third and fifth fingers, 05 and 70 mm. respectively. 

 In six specimens of Eptesicus serotinus whose external measurements 

 1 have recorded* these lingers vary from 84 to 02 mm. and from (>:! to 

 US mm., while in eight specimens of Nyctalus noctula the extremes are 

 94 to L02 and 56 to 62, indicating a wing of quite different form. In three 

 N. maximus the third ringer ranges from 114 to 123, the fifth from 72 

 to 77. The name sicula must therefore be placed in the synonymy of 

 Eptesicus serotinus serotinus Unless a Mediterranean race of the species 

 is to he recognized. 



Vespertilio nebrodensis. page 24. Type locality, Le Madonie, Sicily. 



The description of the tragus and of the color indicate that this animal 

 is an individual of Pipistrellus savii in the phase in which the light wash 

 on dorsal surface is obsolete. 



[Mustela vulgaris] a. fulva, page 53. Type locality, wooded regions 

 [probably of Le Madonie]. 



*Catalogo dei Mammiferi delta Sicilia. Ami. Agi. sic, 2nd ser., vol. \'j., separate 

 paged 1-123, and dated Palermo, 1868 (original publication not seen). 



+ Boll. Soc Zool. Ital., Roma, 2d ser., vol. 12, pp. 251-2H0. December 18, lull. 

 J: Cat. Mamm. Western Europe, p. 230, November 23, L912. 



