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EPTESICUS FUSCUS (Beauvois). 

 LARGE BROWN BAT. 



Comparatively rare. B.ul three specimens were taken, all of 

 which were found in the cave near the entrance. Color of an adull 

 male taken A.ugust 2, bright bister above,- broccoli brown below. A 

 male taken in December is very near the raw umber of Ridgway in 

 the color of the dorsal surface. 



Measurements of an adult male: Total Length, loo mm.; tail, lo; 

 hind foot, 11: ear. 11: forearm. L5; longest finger, 80; expanse, 295. 

 Cranial measurements of the same individual: Greatest Length, 

 20 mm.; basilar length, L5; palatilar length, '.': greatest width of 

 braincase, LO; depth over bulla?, s : maxillary tooth row. '.»: man- 

 dibular Length, L5.1. 



LASIURUS BOREALIS (Muller). 

 RED BAT. 



No living specimens of this bat were seen in the eaves, nor do I 

 know that it has ever been taken alive in any of the caves of the 

 Mississippi valley. A few individuals were seen flying about in the 

 woods on summer evenings. 



About two hundred skulls of this species were found in a Large 

 chamber of Shawnee Cave and a few in a chamber of Upper Spring 

 Cave." The skulls were scattered on the floor of the cavern in a way 

 that indicated that the animals had died while hanging from the 

 roof. Only about twenty skulls of all of the other species now abun- 

 dant here, were found in the same place. Apparently the red hat 

 ha- changed it- habit from cave-dwelling to tree-dwelling within 



recent time-. 



LASIURUS CINEREUS (Beauvois). 

 HOARY BAT. 



This species was not seen alive, but two skulls were found associ- 

 ated with those of the last species. The hoary hat is found in thi- 

 region at the present time, hut it is rare. 



"A brief accounl of these skulls has been published in the Proceedings "t" the 

 Indiana Academy of Science for L906. 



