NYCTINOMUS. 279 



The specimen is entered in the Museum catalogue twice: First on 

 May 1!), 1853, as No. 152, ami having- skull No. 1134, which is now 

 lost. This entry was made as a deposit, "Dcp.'" Second as No. 

 5457, with oriuinal number marked 152 and no skull luunber indi- 

 cated; column for date marked "8-11.34 (^)." 



Specimen in good condition, recently made into a modern Ptudy skin. 



Dr. Harrison Allen, loe cit., p. 69, in second table, regarded thin specimen as 

 the type. Baird, V. S. and Mexican Boundary Survey, lieport, II, 1859, p. 5, 

 writes "the one described by Major I.e Conte was taken at FA Paso." 



Family MOLOSSID.E. 



Genus NYCTINOMUS. 



Nyctinomus antillularum ]\Iiller. 

 Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. PhJla., 1902, p. 398, September 12, 1902. 

 1131SS. In ak-ohol (skull removed). Adult male. Roseau, Dominica, 

 West Indies. August 5, li^Ol. Collected by H. Selwyn Branch. 

 Catalogued Februarv^ 0, 1902. 



Alcoholic in good condition; skull perfect. 



Dysopes aurispinosus Peale. 



I'. S. Kxiiloring I'lxpedition, VIII, ^Mammalia and Ornithology, p. 21, 1848. 

 = Nyctinomus macrotis (Gray). See Dobson, Catalogue Chiroptera British ^lu- 

 seum, p. 435, 1878. 



3726. Skin preserved in alcohol. Adult male. Peale says: ''This 

 remarkable bat flew on board the U. S. ship Peacock, otf the coast 

 of Brazil, on the 18th of November, when the ship was about one 

 hundred miles from land, south of Cape St. lloque." This speci- 

 men is undoubtedly No. 3726, catalogued December 20, 1859, as 

 3£<tlo.s><us a ur/sphiosus from Brazil. It was recatalogucd as No. 5476, 

 Octo})cr 31, 1861. There is no record of a skull in either of the 

 entries. 



The specimen was a dry skin until September 27, 1899, when it was placed in 

 alcohol by Mr. Gerrit S. Miller, jr., who made a note of the color at that time, 

 viz, "belly wood brown, back between wood brown and russet. 9, 27, '99." It 

 is in good condition. 



Type not designated by number, but there is not the slightest doubt that this 

 is the specimen mentioned by Peale. 



Nycticea cynocephala Le Conte. 



McMurtrie's Cuvier, Animal Kingdom, I, p. 432, 1831. 

 =Nyctinomus cynocephalus (Le Conte). See Miller, Proc. Best. Soc. Xat. Hist., 

 XXVIII, p. 218, :\Iarch, 1898. 



4742. Skin with skull inside. Collected b}- Major -F. E. Le Conte, 

 probably on the Le Conte plantation, near Kiceboro, Georgia. 

 Catalogued April 13, 1861. 



Skin in good condition, l)ut with wings spread out. 



No type designated. The above seems to be an original specimen, and has 

 '* Cynocephalus^' written on two old labels, and is so entered in the catalogue. 



