\0. 5 MAMMALS Ol' PANAMA- (;(»I.I>MAN -' I 5 



from llic forms of /;. fuscnx, and tlic iiorlluTii pari of its raii^c is 

 ov(rla|)|>c(l \>y tlial of J'./'trsicit.i ftisius ininidorcnsis (II. Allni). 

 I 111- exact relationship of /',. I'nil>inijniis lo hplcsicns liilarii i Is. 

 '.(•ollroy) .'iihI oiIki .Soiilii Aiiicritaii .species is, liow<'vcr, not so 

 ( lear. 



A • III. ill colony ol /., I>tiil>niijiiiis was lo( al<-<l in a daiK <oMicr (»f 

 llie- attic of an old lionse at San I'ahlo, a locality now (•over<'d |>y 

 <iatnn J.ake. 'I lie walls (»f the r(»om had heen white washed and 

 when a window was opened the <lark color of the hats render**! iIm m 

 conspicuous. A few individuals of Nhoycfs.sii, liiniidd w<-re clin^in^ 

 to rafters riearby. 



Specimens examined : San r.ihlo, 3. 



EPTESICUS FUSCUS MIKAOOKKNSI.S Ml. All.n) 

 Miiador I'.iowii I'.il 



\\tol()l>hilus\ miradurcnsix II. Am.kn, Proc. Acad, Nat. Sci. I'liil;i<l«||)|ii;i, 

 1H66, p, 287. Type from Mirador, Vera Cruz, Mexico, 



'J he Mirador brown hat is one of the larj.(er forms of Vesperti- 



lionifla- occurrin^^ in the re^^ion »u)der consideration. It is ext(;rnally 



iniilar to I'l'tcsicus propinijiiits, hut is decidedly larf^er, the forearm 



measuring' ahout 50 millimeters in lenj^th. It also diffeis in dark 



hrtjwn instead of hiackish c(j|or. 



I' 10, a«,- Kptenicu* fiiM:u« ntir«ulorenii», 



.N'l. .', t7'<4. ''• S. .V,it. Mii», AI>oiit fiflt. %hr.. 



I:ptcsicus f. miradorensis 'WAS first made known from I'anama hy 

 I'.anKs (l()iy^, p. 50), who Uf^ted a sinj^le specimen (ollecterl hy W. W. 

 lirown, Jr., at Hofpiete, ('hiri(|ui. Allen C/'/M. P- 7^) •'^•'^ examples 

 taken at the same locality hy J. If. liatly. '1 his locality on the 



outhern slope of the Volcan de ( hirirpji, in the western |»arl of the 

 n:p»ihlic, iriarks the southern limit of the knowJi ran^e of h.plcskus 

 fuscu.t. 'i his species in its several forms is (jue of the most common 



II the area to the northward, indudiuj^ the entire United States and 

 adjoining/ I'.ritish territory. 'I he skulls of examples from f'.o(|uete 



