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Type Locality.- — Chichen Itza, Yucatan, Mexico. Range. — Yucatan, Mexico, 

 Guatemala (Sanborn, Field Mus. Nat. Hist. Publ. 511, Zool. Ser., vol. 27, p. 387, 

 Dec. 8, 1941), and British Honduras (Murie, Univ. Michigan Mus. Zool. Misc. 

 Publ. 26, p. 19, July 15, 1935). 

 Tadarida niolossa (Pallas)* 



1766. V[espertilio] molossus Pallas, . . . Miscellanea zoologica, . . . , p. 49; 

 . . . Spicilegia zoologica, . . . , fasc. 3, p. 8, 1767. (See Miller, Proc. 

 U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 46, p. 86 and footnote 4, Aug. 23, 1913.) 

 1839. Nyctinomus macrotis Gray, Ann. Nat. Hist., vol. 4, p. 5, September 



1839. (Interior of Cuba.) 

 1884. Nyctinomus macrotis True, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 7 (App., Circ. 



29), Nov. 29, 1884. 

 1891. Nyctinomus depressus Ward, Amer. Nat., vol. 25, p. 747, August 1891. 



(Tacubaya, Distrito Federal, Mexico.) 

 1894. Nyctinomus macrotis nevadensis H. Allen,f U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 43 

 (1893), p. 171, Mar. 14, 1894. (California, exact locality unknown. See 

 J. A. Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 6, p. 326, footnote, Nov. 7, 

 1894.) 

 1913. Nyctinomus molossus Miller, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 46, p. 86 and 



footnote 4, Aug. 23, 1913. 

 1931. Tadarida macrotis Shamel, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 78, p. 15, May 6, 



1931. (Part.) 

 Type Locality. — "America"; "not improbably from Surinam" (Miller, loc. 

 cit.). Range. — From Brazil northward to Iowa (Shamel, op. cit., p. 16), west- 

 ern Utah (Durrant and Setzer, Journ. Mamm., vol. 24, No. 4, p. 501, Nov. 20, 

 1943), San Diego, Calif. (Huey, Journ. Mamm., vol. 13, No. 2, p. 160, May 

 11, 1932), and Essondale, near New Westminister, British Columbia (Cowan, 

 Canadian Field-Nat., vol. 59, No. 4, p. 149, December 1945) ; Cuba and Jamaica. 

 Recorded also from Morton County, Kans. (Cockrum, Univ. Kansas Publ. Mus. 

 Nat. Hist., vol. 7, No. 1, p. 85, Aug. 25, 1952) . 



Genus MORMOPTERUS Peters 

 1865. Mormopterus Peters, Monatsb. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1865, p. 258. 

 (Type, Nyctinomus jugularis Peters.) 

 Mormopterus minutus (Miller) 



1899. Nyctinomus minutus Miller, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 12, p. 173, 



Oct. 20, 1899. 

 1907. M [ormopterus] minutus Miller, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 57, p. 254, 



June 29, 1907. 

 Type Locality. — Trinidad, Santa Clara, Cuba. 



Genus PROMOPS Gervais 



1855. Promops Gervais, in [Castelnau, Expedition dans les parties centrales 

 de l'Amerique du Sud, . . . , pt. 7, Zoologie:] Animaux nouveaux, ou rares, 

 recueillis . . . , p. 58. (Type, Promops ursinus Gervais = Molossus 

 nasutus Spix.) 

 Promops centralis Thomas* 



1884. Molossus nasutus True, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 7 (App., Circ. 29), 

 p. 603, Nov. 29, 1884. 



