noctilio. molossus. 495 



Musky Bat. 



Type locality. Island of St. Croix, West Indies. 



Geogr. Distr. Islands of Jamaica, Mona and St. Croix, West 

 Indies, and in South America, to Brazil. 



Family III. Moloiisidte. 



Genus 172. M0I0H8U8. 



Molossus E. Geoff., Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, vi, 1805, p. 151. 

 Type Molossus rtifus E. Geoff roy. 

 Dysopes Illig., Prodr. Syst. Mamm. et Av., 1811, p. 122. 



1188. Molossus rufus E. Geoff roy. 



Molossus rufus E. Geoff., Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, vi, 1805, 

 p. 155. Elliot, Mamm. Middle Amer. & W. Indies, F. C. M. 

 Pub., IV, Pt. II, 1904, p. 619, figs. 122, xcix. Zool. Ser. 

 Molossus ursimis Spix, Simiar. et Vespert. Bras., 1823, p. 58, pi. 



XXV, fig. 4. 

 Dysopes alecto Temm., Mon. Mamm., i, 1827, p. 231. 

 Dysopes holosericeus Wagn., Archiv f. Naturg., 1843, P- 3^8. 

 Dysopes albus Wagn., Archiv f. Naturg., 1843, p. 368. 

 Rufous Mastiff Bat. 



Type locality. Paraguay, South America. 



Geogr. Distr. Southern Mexico, through Central America to Para- 

 guay and Bolivia. 



a. Molossus rufus ohscurus (E. Geoff roy). 



Molossus obscurus E. Geoff., Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, vi, 1805, 



P- 155- 

 Molossus longicaudatus E. Geoff., Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, vi, 



1805, p. 155. 

 Molossus aciiticaudatus Desm., Mamm., 1820, p. 116. 

 Dysopes velox Temm., Mon. Mamm., i, 1827, p. 234. 

 Molossus fuliginosus Gray, Mag. Zool. Bot., 11, 1838, p. 501. 

 Dysopes olivaceo-juscus Wagn., Abh. Akad. Mimch., -v, 1844, p. 



202. 

 Dysopes jumarius Burm., Thier. Bras., i, 1854, p. 71. 

 Molossus aztecus Sauss., Rev. Mag. Zool., 2me S^r., xii, i860, 



p. 285. 

 Molossus rufus obscurus Elliot, Mamm. Middle Amer. & W. Indies, 



F. C. M. Pub., IV, Pt. II, 1904, p. 620. Zool. Ser. 



