Vol. XVI, pp. 165-166 November 30. 1903 



PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON 



A SECOND SPECIMEN OF EUDERMA MACULATUM. 



BY GERRIT S. MILLER, Jr. 



[By permission of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution.] 



One of the most remarkable of North American bats, the huge- 

 eared, black-and-white Euderma maculatum (J. A. Allen), was 

 wholly unknown before 1890, and, after its discovery, it eluded 

 detection again for thirteen years. The original specimen, now 

 in the American Museum of Natural History, was captured by 



Mr. Thomas Shooter, on a 

 fence at the mouth of Castar 

 Creek, near Piru, Ventura 

 County, California, in March, 

 1890. It remained unique un- 

 til a second individual was 

 found dead in the Biological 

 Laboratory of the New Mexico 

 College of Agriculture and 

 Mechanic Arts, at Mesilla 

 Park, New Mexico, in Septem- 

 ber, 1903. This specimen, 

 correctly identified, was pre- 

 ^^iJ|i^ ^m!l0^^ sented to the United States 



National Museum, by Professor 



E. O. Wooton. It is an adult 



male preserved in alcohol, and 



bears the number 122,545. The history of this species is a 



42— Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. Vol. XVI, 1903. (165) 



Pig. 1. Skull of Euderma maculatum 

 (x 1!4). 



