76 BULLETIN 128, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Genus EPTESICUS Rafinesque.-' 



1820. Eptesicus Eafinesque, Annals of nature, p. 2. Type, 

 Eptesicus melanops Rafinesque = Vespertilio fuscus Beauvois. 



*Eptesicus fuscus fuscus (Beauvois). (Big Brown Bat.) 



1796. Vespertilio fuscus Beauvois, Catal. Raisonne Mus. Peale, 



Philadelphia, p. 18. (P. 14 of English edition by Peale and 



Beauvois.) 

 1885. Vesperugo serotinus True, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 7 



(1884), p. 602. 1885. (Part.) 

 1894. Adelonycteris fuscus H. Allen, Monogr. Bats N. Anier. 



(1893), p. 112. March 14, 1894. 

 1900. Eptesicus fuscus Mj^.hely, Magyarorszag denevereinek 



nionographiaja (Monographia Chiropterorum Hungariaj), p. 



206, 338. 

 Type Locality. — Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 

 Range. — Austral, Transition, and lower edge of Boreal zones 



throughout the greater part of the United States and adjoining 



British Provinces. 



*Eptesicus fuscus osceola Rhoads. 



1902. Eptesicus fuscus osceola Rhoads, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 



Philadelphia, 1901, p. 618. February 6, 1902. 

 Type Locality. — Tarpon Springs, Hillsboro County, Florida. 



*Eptesicus fuscus melanopterus Rehn. 



1904. Eptesicus fuscus melanopterus Rehn, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 

 Philadelphia,^ p. 590. October 18, 1904. (Not Vesperus 

 melanopterus Jentink, July 15, 1904.) 

 Type Locality. — Mount Tallac, Eldorado County, California. 

 Regarded by H. W. Grinnell (Univ. Calif. Publ. Zool., vol. 17, p. 322, 

 January 31, 1918) as not probably distinct from E. fuscus fuscus. 



*Eptesicus fuscus bernardinus Rhoads. 



1902. Eptesicus fuscus bernardinus Rhoads, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 



Philadelphia,' 1901, p. 619. February 6, 1902. 

 Type Locality. — Near San Bernardino, San Bernardino County, 

 California. 



Regarded by H. W. Grinnell (Univ. Oalif. Publ. Zool., vol. 17, p. 322, 

 January 31, 1918) as not probably distinct from E. fuscus fuscus. 



*Eptesicus fuscus miradorensis (H. Allen). 



1866. S[cotopJiilus] miradorensis H. Allen, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 



Philadelphia, p. 287. 

 1897. Vespertilio fuscus miradorensis Miller, North Amer. 



Fauna, No. 13, p. 99. October 16, 1897. 

 1-912. Eptesims fuscus miradorensis AIiller, North Amer. Land 



Mamm. 1911, p. 62. December 31, 1912. 

 Type Locality. — Mirador, Vera Cruz, Mexico. 

 Hange. — Costa Rica, Guatemala, and southern Mexico. 



29 Revised (under the name Vespertilio) by Miller, Nortii Amer. Fauna, No. 13, pp. 9-5-104, Oct. 10, 1897. 



