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but one specimen from Monterey, it automatically became the type. In 

 H. Allen's original list of specimens the one from Monterey was mentioned 

 as alcoholic, whereas the catalog entry, made some time previously, lists it 

 as dry skin. 



The skin is in poor condition. The posterior half of upper part and 

 extreme posterior part of under side of body are lacking. "Wing and tail 

 membranes in fair condition. 



*Vespertilio nitidus henshawii H. Allen. Cotypes. 



U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 43 : 103, Mar. 14, 1894. 

 =Myotis subulutus melanorhinus (Merriam). See Miller and G. M. Allen, 

 U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 144 : 169, May 25, 1928. 



12450. Alcoholic (skull inside). Adult female. Near Fort Win- 

 gate, McKinley County, N. Mex. 1872. Collected by H. W. 

 Henshaw. 



In good condition, well preserved; viscera removed. 



102428. Alcoholic (skull removed, lost), x^dult female. Near 

 Fort Wingate, McKjnley County, N. Mex. 1872. Collected 

 by H. W. Henshaw. 



In good condition, viscera removed ; skull lost. 



Harrison Allen (1894), mentions two specimens under the single cata- 

 log number of 12450. Later one of these specimens was reentered as 

 number 102426. Lyon and Osgood (1909) apparently overlooked these 

 cotypes, but Miller, in his Lists of 1911 and 1923 indicates they were in 

 the Museum collection. In 1928 Miller and G. M. Allen, loc. cit., wrote 

 that the cotypes "appear to be no longer in the National Museum collec- 

 tion." This, happily, is no longer true. 



*Vespertilio obscurus H. Allen. 



Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 18 : 281, ordered published Aug. 26, 

 1866. 

 =Myotis yumanensis yumanensis (H. Allen). See Goldman Proc. Biol. Soc. 

 Washington 27:102, May 11, 1914. 



^??^. In alcohol (skull removed). Adult male. Lower California, 

 38357 ^ ^ 



Mexico. Collected by John Xantus. Cataloged in 1865. 



Left wing entirely lacking and only the bones of the right wing remain- 

 ing. The rest of the skin is in good condition; skull Grade A. 



Lyon and Osgood, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. G2 : 272, Jan. 28, 1909, followed 

 Miller, North Amer. Fauna 13 : 69, Oct. 16, 1897, who, without removing 

 the skull, assigned the alcoholic specimen to Myotia caVifornicus. Later, 

 however, Goldman, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 27 : 102, May 11, 1914, 

 examined the skull and found that the animal was Myotis yumanensis. 



f Myotis occultus Hollister. 



Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 22 : 43, Mar. 10, 1909. 

 137098. Skin and skull. Adult male. West side of Colorado 

 River, 10 miles above Needles, San Bernardino County, Calif. 

 May 14, 1905. Collected by N. Hollister. Original number 2237. 

 Well-made skin in good condition ; skull Grade A. 



