NYCTICEIUS. 599 
RAFINESQUE’S Bat. 
Type locality. Kentucky. 
Geogr. Distr. State of Tamaulipas, Mexico, north to Arkansas 
and eastern United States; Cuba; Central America? 
Genl. Char. Size medium; ears small, thick, naked, except at 
base; tragus short, broad, blunt at posterior base; membrane thick; 
uropatagium at middle of terminal caudal vertebra. 
Color. Above umber brown; beneath paler; fur at base plum- 
beous. 
Measurements. Total length, 91.4-93.5; tail vertebra, 35.8-37.2; 
tibia, 13.4-13.8; foot, 6.7—-7.7; forearm, 34.3—-36.4; thumb, 5.3-5.6; 
longest finger, 63.4—65.2; ear from meatus, 12.7—13.9; width of ear, 
8.8-10.5; tragus, 5.1-6.2. Skull: occipito-nasal length, 12; zygo- 
matic width, 10; mastoid breadth, 7.5; interorbital constriction, 4; 
length of mandible, 4. 
a.—eubanus (Vesperus), Gundl., Monatsb. K. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. 
Berl., 1861, p. 150. 
GUNDLACH’s Bar. 
Type locahty. Near Cardenas, Cuba. 
Geogr. Distr. Island of Cuba. 
Genl. Char. Size small; color pale, similar to that of N. hu- 
meralis. 
Color. ‘‘Above light tawny (fur blackish at base), beneath pale 
reddish tawny, fur black at base; face and membranes blackish 
brown; nose appears somewhat divided by the projecting nostrils; 
between the nose and the ears there is on each side a protuberance 
with bristly hairs; ears oval, lengthened (8 mm. high in front). The 
anterior base rounded and spreading outward; the posterior at the 
angle of the mouth forms a semicircle; this semicircle which bends 
inward to the tragus, forms another rounded enlargement; tragus 
oblong, scarcely narrowed throughout, somewhat bent in the form of 
a sickle forward, and provided with a tooth-shaped lobule at the 
base of the exterior border; nails tawny.”’ 
Measurements. (Dry skin.) Total length of body, 0.045; tail, 
0.029; head, 0.016; ear, 0.012; forearm, 0.030; thumb, 0.005%; 
second finger, 0.029%; third finger, 0.055; fourth finger, 0.046; fifth 
finger, 0.040; tibia, 0.011; foot, 0.00634 ; calear, 0.013.’ (Gundlach.) 
