276 RHOGEESSA LASIURUS. 



Genus RHOGEESSA. 



Rhogeessa gracilis Miller. Biological Survey collcttion. 



North Amer. Fauna, No. 13, pp. 12H-12S, pi. i, (igs. 7, 12; text tig. 40/^, OctolKT 16, 

 1897. 

 7«)«>94. In alcohol. Adult male. Piaxtlu, Puehla, Mexico. Novem- 

 ber 2-1:, 1894. Collected by E. W. Nelson and E. A. Goldman. 

 Original number 7099. 



Specimen in fair condition; right humerus and ulna broken; skull attached 

 to body, but sejiarated from skin. 



Rhogeessa minutilla Miller. 



Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., XI, p. 139, May 13, 1S97. 



63216. Skin with skull. Adult male. Margarita Island, Venezuela. 

 July 8, 1895. Collected })y ^Nluj. ^Virt Robinson, U. S. A. Orig- 

 inal number -ItiB. Catalogued March 25, 189(3. 



Skin in good condition. Skull with zygomata broken away; audital buUio 

 missing and posterior basal portion injured. 



Rhogeessa parvula II. Allen. See page 292. 



Rhogeessa tumida 11. Allen. 



Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1866, p. 286, ordered published .Vugust 2S, 1866. 

 84021. Skidl. Adult male. Mirador, Vera Cruz, Mexico. Collected 

 by Col. A. J. Grayson, U. S. A. Catalogued March 1, 1898. 



The skin is said to be in alcohol, Imt can not be found; skull complete except 

 for the loss of Ijoth malar bones. 



The specimen is accompanied by these two notes signed G. S. ^I. [iller], jr. 



"In the orig. descr. the number of this sp. is said to he 81i>5. This is an error. 

 [This number in the Museum catalogues does not refer to a bat; it may l>e an 

 original number.] Specimen recatalogued 3.1.98." 



"There is no doubt that this is the type skull. It was returned by H. A.| lleiij 

 with no. given in orig. descr." 



Genus LASIURUS. 



Atalapha semota II. Allen. 



Proc. r. S. Nat. Mus., XIII, No. 807, p. 173, September 9, 1890. 

 = Lasiurus semota (H. Allen). See Miller, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. o7, p. 222, 



June 29, 1907. 

 15681. Ill alcohol (skidl not removed). Adidt female. Hawaiian 

 Islands. Collected by Valdemar Kiiiidsen. Catalogued January 

 4, 1887. 



Specimen in good condition. 



No type designated. The above sjiecimen is selected as the type, because a 

 great part of the description is ba-sed ui)on it. A table of measurements is given 

 of it; it heads the list of nine speciniens, is the first specimen mentioned Ijy 

 Dr. 11. Allen, and it is the only one that he considers a "perfect adult specimen." 



