588 VESPERTILIO, 
Genl. Char, Size large, ears short, membrane heavy, thick; foot 
half as long as tibia; wing membranes attached beyond base of toes, 
naked, save a few hairs on under side of interfemoral membrane and 
Wings near humerus and forearm, 
Color. Above bistre or sepia; paler beneath. 
Measurements, Total length, 108.5-116; tail vertebra, 42—-47.5; 
tibia, 19.1-19.7; foot, 9.2-10.4; forearm, 44.8-47; thumb, 6-7; longest 
finger, 79.4-82; ear from meatus, 17-19.5; width of ear, 12.4-13.3; 
tragus, 7.8-8.3. Skull: occipito-nasal length, 12.5; zygomatic width, 
12.5; length of mandible, 14. 
a.—cubensis (Scotophilus), Gray, Ann, Nat. Hist., tv, 1839, p. 7. 
dutertreus Gerv., in Ramon de la Sagra’s Hist. l’Isle de Cuba, 
Mamm., r840, p. 6. 
CuBaAN Brown Bat. 
Type locality, Cuba. 
Geogr. Distr. Island of Cuba, 
Genl. Char. Ears and membranes thin; ears small, papery, nar- 
row, pointed. 
Color. Rich dark reddish brown above and beneath. 
Measurements, Total length, 110.7; tail vertebra, 48.5; forearm, 
48.4; thumb, 6.6; longest finger, 86; tibia, 19.9; foot, 9; ear from 
meatus, 16.7; tragus, 8.4. 
b.—miradorensis (Scotophilus), H. Allen, Proc. Acad. Nat. Scien. 
Phil, 1866, p. 287. 
Mirapvor Brown Bar. 
Type locality. Mirador, State of Vera Cruz, Mexico. 
Geogr, Distr. Southern Mexico, into Guatemala and Costa Rica. 
Genl, Char. Size large; color dark; ears and membranes rather 
thin. 
Color. Similar to V. fuscus, but darker. 
Measurements, Total length, rro—120; tail vertebrae, 48-57; fore- 
arm, 50-52; thumb, 6.4-7; longest finger, 85-93; tibia, 20-22; foot, 
g.8—11.4; ear from meatus, 18.6-20; tragus, 8.3-10. Skull: occipito- 
nasal length, 19.5; zygomatic breadth, 13; length of mandible, 14.5. 
(Miller.) 
e.—bahamensis (Vespertilio), Miller, N. Am. Faun., No. 13, 1897, 
D; ror, 
BAHAMA Brown Bat, 
Type locality. Nassau, New Providence Island, Bahamas. 
Geogr, Distr. Known only from type locality. 
