(jfeneral Xotcs. 1A5 



uprijihl portion of the noseleaf is "much narrower than the horse- 

 shoe," and the prominences on the chin are of very peculiar form. In 

 M. microtia the uprijj;ht portion of the noseleaf is fully as wide as the 

 'horse-shoe,' and the prominences on the chin are exactly as in normal 

 members of the genus. — (Wrrit N. Milhr. Jr. 



The systematic name of the Cuban red bat. 



In Ivumon de la Sagra's Historia Fisica Politicay Natural de la Isla de 

 Cuba, III, p. 32, 1845, Gervais describes the cuban red bat as Vespertilio 

 blo.ssci'iUii. Publication of the name he attributes to Lesson and Garnot, 

 "Bull. Sc. Nat. VIII, p. 1)5." This reference I have not been able to 

 verify, but it luiquestionably antedates the publication of Gundlach's 

 name AtaUiphd pfeiffcri (1S()1) by si.Kteen years. The animal should 

 therefore be known as Lifxiiirus hlmon'rilUL — Gcrrif S. Milhr, Jr. 



Note on the Vespertilio blythii of Tomes.* 



In 1S,')7 Tomes published a description of the Indian representative of 

 Myolis mi/iitix under the name Venpertilio bltftldi (Proc. Zool. fioc. Lon- 

 don, IS.TT, p. 53). Ilecent authors have without exception regarded the 

 animal as identical with the European form. A specimen collected by Dr. 

 W. L. Abbott in Kashmir (9 adult No. fl|i| United States National 

 Museum) shows, however, that this view is not correct, and that Myotix 

 bljithii is a well characterized species, readily distinguishable from M. 

 vtyotixhy its shorter ears, much smaller audital bulhe, and by a peculiar- 

 ity in the form of the maxillary molars. In these teeth the protocone 

 is lower and further removed from the paracone than in M. myotix, 

 a character which is at once appreciable when the teeth of the two 

 species are viewed in profile from the front. This peculiarity is evi- 

 dently of considerable importance, as I can find no appreciable variation 

 ill the form of the molars among a large number of European speci- 

 mens of ^f. myotix. — (hn-rif S. .]fi//rr. J)'. 



The Scotophilus pachyomus of Tomes a valid species. 



l)escril)ed in 1S.")7 (Proc. Zool. Soc. London, p. 50) from specimens 

 taken in India the Srntop/iilux jiiic/zynmi/x of Tomes has of recent years 

 been regarded as inseparable from the European Serotine Bat (see 

 Dobson, C'atal. C'hiropt. lirit. Mus., p. 1!M, and Blanford, Mamm. Hrit. 

 India, p 303). Two individuals taken by Dr. W. L. Abbott in the Vale 

 of Kashmir and now in the United States National Museum (Nos. |if§t 

 and ^lyii";) agree in all respects with the characters given by Tomes and 



*This note and the four following are published here by permission 

 of the Secretarv of the Smithsonian Institution. 



