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each. Interfemoral web moderate, calcaneal small, tip of tail 

 exserted. 



Fur scanty, rather woolly, membranes naked. 



Length 2, tail 1.5, fore-arm 1.4, tibia 0.6, thumb 0.4, ear 0.4, 

 tragus 0.25, expanse of wings 9.6. 



Although not reported, this species may be found in Minne- 

 sota. 



GENUS LASIURUS, RAF. 



(=Atalapha.) 



I have not the necessary advantages for deciding which name 

 should be employed for this genus and hence follow American 

 usage. Some ten nominal species are known from North and 

 South America. Three species occur in the United States two 

 of which are known from Minnesota. 



Skull massive, broad, high posteriorly; facial portion rather 

 high, passing with little flexure into the cranial, nasal portion 

 very broad, hiatus between the upper incisors of either side 

 wide, quadrately excavated. Zygoma complete. Distance be- 

 tween the orbital space and the front of skull very short. 

 Pterygoids projecting inferiorly. Dentition, i. c. J- ra. | ( ) 

 x2 = 32 (30). Last upper molar greatly compressed from be- 

 fore backward. Scapula elongated with very long metacromial 

 and caracoid processes. This genus differs from Nycticejus in 

 the fact that the anterior premolar, although small, is 'present 



Lasiimis noveboracensis ERXL., SP. 



RED BAT. 



Vespertilio noveboracensis ERXLEBEN. Sjst. Keg. Anim., 1777. 



HAKLAN. Fauna Americana, 1825. 



GODMAN. Amer. "Sat. Hist., 1826. 



COOPER. Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., 1837. 



LECONTE. Proc. Acad. Sci., 1855. 

 Nycticejus noveboracensis LECONTE. Ouv. Regn. Annual, 1831. 



TEMMINCK. Monog. ii, 1835-1841. 



WAGNER. Suppl. Schreb. Sauget., 1840. 



SCHINZ. Synopsis Mam., 1844. 



MAX. WIED. Archiv. Naturg., 1861. 

 Lasiurus noveboracensis TOMES. Proc. Zool. Soc., 1857. 



H. ALLEN. Monogr. N. A. Bats, 1864. 



BAIRD. Mam. N. A. 



J. A. ALLEN. Catalogue Mam. Mass., 1869. 



