72 Two Specie* of Plccotus. 



(Plains) Maugei of Porto Rico, is the only one which can 



suspected of any specific similarity with those we have here 



scribed. Bui if it be in reality identical with one of ours, 



the description at present extant must be both too inaccurate 



and too incomplete to supersede the necessity of a new one. 



1. PliECOTUS LECONTII. 

 Plate III. Fig. 5. the head. 



Plccotus macrotis LC. in App. to Mc Murine's Cuv. 1. p. 4.31. 

 Vespertilio Maugei, Desm. Mamm. p. 1457 Idem Nou. Diet? 

 Plccotus Maugei, Is. Geoff. Mag. dc Zool. 1832 ? 

 Longhaired Bat, Pen*. Arct. Zool. 1. p. 1S4. Clayton in Phil. 

 Trans. 



Description. 



Color of the back dusky, terminated with light brown, ap- 

 pearing somewhat variegated if the hairs be disturbed, fur long, 

 soft and close. The remaining upper parts are naked, with 

 the exception of the base of ears behind, and their anterior 

 lower honler, which is fringed with fine soft hairs, and a few 

 long fine hairs at the toe joints ; the membranous parts of a 

 uniform light brown like the back. The ears are larger than 

 the head, and half as broad as long, the auricle less than half 

 the length of the ears, narrow, Bublinear, obtuse, and curving 

 slightly outward. The nose round, set with numerous fine 

 lorn: hairs, and " a very large erect cristiform warty excrescence 

 on each Bide between the eyes and the nose.'' The under 

 side of the body clothed with fur, which is very dark dusky 

 at the base with very lighl gray tips, which predominate over 



the dusk] more and more downward until it hecomes hetween 

 the legs almost a pure white. Tail slightly projecting beyond 

 die membrane. 



