Neotropical Bats of the Genus Eptesicus. 361 
America in the form known as E. f. miradorensis, but I am 
now able to record its presence as far into 8. America as 
Merida, Venezuela, whence comes a bat which I may com- 
mence by describing. 
Eptesicus fuscus pelliceus, subsp. n. 
General characters very much as in E. f. miradorensis, 
All., of Mexico and Central America, but fur decidedly longer. 
Colour quite as in Guatemalan miradorensis, the dorsal hairs 
blackish for four-fifths their length, theirends glossy cinnamon; 
underneath paler, the ends dull buffy whitish. Hairs of back 
about 9 mm. in length. 
Skull about as in miradorensis. 
Dimensions of- the type (measured on skin) :— 
Forearm 54 mm. 
‘Third finger, metacarpus 50, first phalanx 19°5. 
Skull: palato-sinual length 8°6 ; interorbital breadth 4:3 ; 
front of canine to back of m* 7:5 ; front of p* to back of m? 5:2. 
Hab. Heights near Merida, Venezuela. Type from La 
Culata. Alt. 4000 m. 
Type. Old female. B.M. no. 98. 7. 1. 28. Collected 
20th June, 1897, by S. Bricefio. One specimen only. 
Turning now to the true lightly built S.-American species, 
there is a considerably larger number of names to be reckoned 
with than has hitherto appeared, as I find no less than fourteen 
described from different parts of the continent, some of these 
having been wholly neglected by modern writers, Indeed, 
the earliest one of all, bras‘lensis, Desm., 1819, seems never 
to have been used, but should evidently supersede Azlari, 
I. Geoffr., 1824, for the comparatively large dark-coloured 
Brazilian species, with which it is probable that derasus, 
Burm., 1854, arctoides and nitens, Wagn., 1855, and arge, 
Cope, 1889, are all synonymous. ‘Then it seems evident that 
dorianus, Dobs., 1885 (Misiones), is synonymous with furi- 
nalis, D’Orb., 1847 (Corrientes), with forearm 37-38 mm., 
while for the pale Ecuadorean and N. Peruvian coast-species 
I fear that innoxius, Gerv., 1841 (Amotape, Piura), will have 
to supersede espud@, Cabrera, 1901 (Babahoyo). 4. melano- 
pterus, Jent., 1904, would be the name for the Guianan species 
(forearm 37-40 mm.), to which chapmani, Allen, 1915, is 
likely to be nearly related. Then andinus, Allen, 1915, 
would be the highly suitable name for a dark-coloured species 
which ranges down the Andean chain from N. Colombia to 
Peru, our most southern examples coming from Chanchamayo. 
