APPENDIX. 



In order to enable the student to decide for himself in regard to the 

 many doubtful or unidentified species of authors cited in the foregoing 

 pages, the descriptions themselves are reproduced in the present appendix. 



A. 



Rafinesque. — American Monthly Magazine, III, 1817, 445. 



1. V. mystax. (Whisker Bat). — Tail two-fifths of total length ; upper 

 incisors none, lower 6 ; two warts at the lower jaw ; body entirely fallow, 

 top of the head brownish ; ears brown, auriculated, longer than the head. 

 Length, 5 inches ; breadth, 14 inches. 



2. V. humeralis. (Black-shoulder Bat.) — Tail three-sevenths j upper 

 incisors 2, remote ; lower 6 ; body dark brown above, shoulders black ; 

 gray beneath ; wings, tail, ears, and snout blackish ; eyes under the hair ; 

 ears longer than the head, elliptical, auriculated. Length, 3^ inches ; 

 breadth, 11 inches. 



3. V, tesselatus. (Netted Bat.) — Tail half of total length, hairy above; 

 upper incisors 2, remote ; lower 6 ; body fallow above, pale dirty fulvous 

 beneath, with a faint fallow collar ; shoulders white ; wings hairy at the 

 base, with two hairy white spots above near the thumb ; membrane black- 

 ish, netted of fulvous internally and clotted of same externally ; shafts 

 fulvous ; nose bilobate ; ears nearly concealed by the hair. Length, 4 

 inches ; breadth, 12 inches. 



4. V. cyanojiterus. (Blue-wing Bat.) — Tail one-third ; 2 incisors above, 

 6 below ; body dark gray beneath ; wings of a dark bluish gray ; shafts 

 black ; ears auriculated, longer than the head. Length, 3 inches ; breadth, 

 10 inches. 



5. V. me.lanotis. (Black-back Bat.) — Tail one-third above, gray beneath ; 

 body blackish above, whitish beneath ; wings dark gray ; shafts black ; 

 ears auriculated, rounded. Length, 4^ inches ; breadth, 12J inches. 



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