Feb., 1912. Mammals of Illinois and Wisconsin — Cory. 459 



length of time, it turns head downward and hangs by the hooked 

 nails of its hind feet. Its food, so far as known, consists entirely of 

 insects. 



Specimens examined from Illinois, Wisconsin and adjoining states: 

 Illinois — Rosiclaire, Hardin Co., 7; Golconda, Pope Co., 3 = 10. 

 Indiana — Wyandotte, 14. 

 Wisconsin — Beaver Dam, Dodge Co., 2; (M. P. M.) Burnett Co., i; 



Fountain City, Buffalo Co., 25; Osceola, Polk Co., i; Maiden Rock, 



Pierce Co., 11; Milwaukee, 2; (0. C.) Iron Co., i; Milwaukee 2; 



Delafield, Waukesha Co., 1 = 46. 



Myotis grisescens Howell. 

 Gray Bat. 



Myotis grisescens Howell, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., XXII, 1909, p. 46. Hahn, 



Ann. Rept. Dept. Geol. & Nat. Resources Ind., 1908 (1909), p. 625 (Indiana). 



Howell, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., XXII, 1909, p. 67 (Tennessee, Missouri, 



Indiana). 

 Myotis velifer Miller, N. Amer. Fauna, No. 13, 1897, p. 56 (in part specimens 



from Marble Cave, Missouri). Hahn, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXXV, 1908 



(1909), p. 580 (Monroe Co., Indiana). 



Type locality — Nickajack Cave, near Shelhnotmcl, Marion Co., Ten- 

 nessee. 



Distribution — Limits of range unknown. It has been taken in Ten- 

 nessee, Indiana, Illinois and Missouri, and will probably be found 

 ultimately in many of our Southern states. 



Description — General color dull brown to mouse-gray, somewhat 

 paler and more grayish below, flanks and lower 



1-^ ^i portion of abdomen showing a slight buffy tinge in 



^Wi,','/;'; /^S' some specimens; whole number of teeth in upper 



'i^^'l.i^mW jaw iS; tragus long and rather slender, similar to 



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that of velifer. 



"^vWfit^'^ ^ Measurements — Total length, abottt 4.12 in. (97 to 

 1 10 mm.) ; tail, 1.65 in. (42 mm.) ; foot, .50 in. (10.5 

 mm.) ; forearm, 1.60 in. (40 mm.) or more; extent (spread of wings), 

 about II in. (2 So mm.). 

 Remarks — Differs from M. velifer in averaging darker in color and 

 having the wing membrane attached to the feet near the ankle 

 joint and not at the base of the toes as in velifer. 



Very little is known concerning the range of this species, but it has 

 so far been taken in Illinois, Tennessee, Missouri and Indiana. Mr. 

 Howell described it as a new form in 1909, and specimens which have 



