66 Two Species of Molossiu. 



length. Toes nearly equal in length, the two outer rather 

 more robust, and woolly on the outside, and all furnished with 

 fun,- long hairs springing from the roots of the nails, and forming 

 a fringe on the iniw r side of the foot. The fur is of a close 

 and velvetty texture, unlike die loose and long pelage of the 

 northern Vespertiliones. 



i 



1 ■ 1 — 1 • 1 — 1 l 5-5 0i> 



Lncisors canines molars ■ ,- =3g. 



i> 1 — 1 5—5 



Total length 3.3 inches. 



Tail 1.3 «« 



Fon arm ----------- 1.7 M 



Tibia - 0.5 " 



Spread - 10.5 •• 



1 have described this Bal from a specimen furnished to in« 

 Major Le Conte. The first and only' notice of the species 

 hitherto published is that -i\en by this gentleman as above 



qUOted, Unless it lie the (lolllitflll ./»' h i /m/xi/iid ill foil HOISIS, as 



supposed bj in} friend Dr. Pickering. There is however no 

 appearance of any nasal appendage 1 whatever, and it exhibits no 

 other affinity with thai genus. Major Le Conte obtained it in 

 (i( orgia, where as he informs me he has observed it in large 

 numbers together. Dr. Bachman has also sent me several 

 . and stall's that it is common ahoiit (Charleston, 

 though he had not observed it elsewhere. NO other writers 

 appear to have met with it. The curious crimping of the cars 

 mud in another species Croni Java, the Dysopes tenuis of 

 T( om. Monog. I. p. 228, pi. L9, fig. 2. The dentary for- 

 mula is derived from the MS. notes communicated by Major 

 Le ( lonte. 



