ALLEN: mammalia: vespertilionid^. 187 



Waterhouse, /. c), who also says that he "saw one of these animals on 

 the wing" in Tierra del Fuego. Dobson cites a specimen from Mendoza, 

 Argentina; Lataste cites Valdivia, San Fernando, and Santiago, Chili; 

 Lahille gives its range as southeastern Patagonia, Chili, and the southern 

 part of his sub-andean province. 



Genus HISTIOTUS Gervais. 



HiSTiOTUS VELATUS Gcrvais. 



Plecotits velatus Gervais, Ann. Sci. Nat. (i), III, 1824, 446 (Curityba, 



Brazil). — Is. Geoffroy St.-Hilaire, Mag.de Zool., II, 1832, CI. I, 



pi. ii, animal (same specimen as above). — Wagner, Schreber's Saug. 



Suppl., V, 1855, 717. — Pelzeln, Bras. Saug., 1883, 44, Ypanema, 



Brazil, Natterer. 

 Vespertilio velatus Temminck, Mongr. Mamm., II, 1835-41 (1838), 240, 



pi. ix, fig. 3 (Ypanema, Brazil, Natterer's specimen). — Lahille, 



Congr. cient. Lat. Amer., Ill, 1899, 173. 

 Histiotiis velatus Gervais, Exp(^d. du Comte de Castelnau, Zool, 1855, 



77, part, of. Peters. — Peters, Monatsb. k. p. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 



1875 (1876), 787, pi., fig. I, ear. 

 Vesperugo velatus Dobson, Cat. Chirop., 1878, 188. 

 Vesperus velatus Burmeister, Desc. phys. Rep. Argent., Ill, 1889, loi. 



This big-eared bat ranges, according to Burmeister (/. <:.), from south- 

 ern Brazil to northern Patagonia, where specimens were taken by Mr. 

 Henry Durnford on the Rio Chubut. Mr. Barnum Brown has described 

 to me a specimen (skin) taken at Mr. H. S. Felton's estancia, about 

 twenty miles from the mouth of the Rio Gallegos, which, from the size 

 (spread of wings about 9 inches) and very large ears, seems referable to 

 the present species. 



Genus VESPERTILIO Linnaeus. 



Vespertilio magellanicus Philippi. 



Vesperus magellanicus Philippi, Arch. f. Naturg., 1866, i, 113, Straits of 



Magellan. — Lahille, Congr. cient. Lat. Amer., Ill, 1899, 173. 



Southern Patagonia. 

 Vesperus magellanicus Peters, Monatsb. k. p. Akad. Wissen. Berlin, 



1875 (1876), 790, pi., fig. 4 and 5, ear, skull, and dentition, from 



Philippi's specimen. 



