nyctinomus. spectrellum. 501 



Free-tailed Mouse Bat. 

 Type locality. Cuba. 

 Geogr. Distr. Islands of Cuba, Porto Rico, St. Kitts, and Trinidad. 



1208. Nyctinomus minutus Miller. 



*Nycttnomus brasiliensis Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 



N. Y., i892,p. 316. (Part.) 

 Nyctinomus minutus Miller, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. N. Y., 

 1899, p. 173. Elliot, Mamm. Middle Amer. & W. Indies, 

 F. C. M. Pub., IV, Pt. II, 1904, p. 630. Zool. Ser. 

 Little Free-tailed Bat. 



Type locality. Trinidad, Island of Cuba. 

 Geogr. Distr. Island of Cuba. 



Family IV. Tliyropteridje. Fnnnell-eared Bats. 

 Genus 176. Spectrelluiii. 



Spectrellum Gerv., Exp^d. du Comte de Casteln. I'Am^r. Sud, Mamm., 

 Zool., 1855, p. 51. Type Spectrellum macrurum Gervais. 

 \Natalus (misprint for A/^a^a/w) Gray, Mag. Zool. Bot., 11, 1838, p. 496. 

 Type Natalus! stramineus Gray, (nee Lap., Coleopt., 1836, 

 Natalis.) 



1209. Spectrellum stramineum (Gray). 



Natalus! stramineus Gray, Mag. Zool. Bot., 11, 1838, p. 496. 



Spectrellum macrurum Gerv., Compt. Rend. Acad. Scien. Paris, 

 1856, p. 347- 



Natalis stramineus Elliot, Mamm. Middle Amer. & W. Indies, 

 F. C. M. Pub., IV, Pt. II, 1904, p. 632, figs. 126, cii. Zool. Ser. 

 Straw-colored Bat. 



Type locality. Unknown. 



Geogr. Distr. Island of Dominica, West Indies; Guatemala, Cen- 

 tral America, to Brazil, South America. 



a. Spectrellum stramineum major (Miller). 



Natalus! major Miller, Proc. Acad. Nat. Scien. Phil., 1902, p. 398. 



Natalis stramineus major Elliot, Mamm. Middle Amer. & W. 



Indies, F. C. M. Pub., iv, Pt. 11, 1904, p. 633. Zool. Ser. 



*Nyctinotnus brasiliensis Is. Geoffroy does not seem to be found beyond 

 the boundaries of South America. 



tThe genus Natalus Gray, 1838, being preoccupied by Natalis Lap., 1836, 

 necessitates a new name for the Family, which, by adopting the oldest proposed 

 genus Thyroptera. according to the rule governing such cases, would be 

 Thyropterid^. 



