272 MYOTIS, 



Myotis nesopolus Miller. 



Proc. IVuA. Snc. Wash., XIII, p. 1L':5, A[.ril C, H>00. 



101849. Skill aiul skull. Adult male, runda. ('unu/ao, ^^'(^st Indies. 

 November 4, 1S99. Collected by Leon -I. (iutiuio. ( atalo^-uod 

 January :^1, 1900. 



Sia-finii'ii originally preserved entire in formalin, hut made into a dry skin 

 on Fel)rnary S, litOO. 



Wi'll-niadc skin, in good rondition; skull perfect. 



Vespertilio nitidus H. Allen. 



Proc. Aca<l. Nat. Sei. Phila., 1862, p. 247, ordered published Ai)ril 2;», 1862. 

 = Myotis californicus (Audubon an<l Bachnuin). See ]\Iiller, North Anier. Fauna, 



No. VA, p. Hi), October 16, 1897. 

 rVVff- Skin and skull. Adult. Fort Steilacoom,Puget Sound, Wa.sh- 

 inj^ton. Collected by Dr. George Suckley, " N. PaciHc li. K. 

 Survey, (iov. I. I. Stevens." First catalogued February 26, 18.55; 

 again catalogued October 31, 1861, as No. 5447. 



The specimen is a skin almost falling to pieces, made up with wings exi)ande<l. 

 Skull has lost right tympanic bone, most of right zygoma, and left lialf of 

 mandible. Parts of occii)ital about foramen magnum have been broken away. 



No type designated. A table of measurements accompanies the original 

 description and five specimens are mentioned. Measurements of these five 

 specimens are given in Allen's Monograph of Bats of North America, p. 61, 

 1865. There it is readily seen that the measurements given in the original 

 description are not those of the average of the original five specimens, nor do 

 they agree with those of any particular one, but they more nearly represent 

 the measurements of No. 523 than they do any of the others. For that reason 

 No. 523 is here n'garded as the tyi)e. It may ])e contended, however, that 1981 

 being the first mentioned in the original description should V)e taken as the type; 

 but No. 1981 apparently was an alcoholic and the original descrii)tion is evidently 

 based upon a skin and skull. Moreover, the greater number of the sjiecimens, 

 four, came from Fort Steilacoom, and these should be taken to represent the 

 species better. Of the original five specimens, the type. No. 523, No. 522, a 

 skin, and skulls, \.;'%^/ and ViV> seem to be the only ones extant. 



Vespertilio obscurus H. Allen. 



Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1866, p. 2S1, ordered jiublisluMl August 26, 1S66. 

 =Myotis californicus (Audubon and Pachman). See Miller, North .\nier. Fauna, 



No. 13, p. ()9, Octoljer 16, 1897. 

 8223. In alcohol (skull not removed). Adult male. Lower Califor- 

 nia, Mexico. Collected l)y John Xantus. Catalogued in 1S65. 



Left wing lacking entirely and only the bones of the right wing remaining. 

 The rest of the specimen is in good condition. 



Vespertilio oregonensis 11. Allen. Cotypes. 



Monograph Bats North America, Smithsonian Miscell. Coll., No. 16."). ji. 61, .Tune, 

 1864. 

 = Myotis californicus (^.Vudubon and Pachiiian). See Miller, North .\iiier. Fauna^ 

 No. 13, p. 69, October 16, 18!»7. 



Four cot3'i)cs. See Miller, lac cit., p. 33. 



