nyctinomus. spectrellum. 501 



Free-tailed Mouse Bat. 

 Type locality. Cuba. 

 Geogr. Distr. Islands of Cuba, Porto Rico, St. Kitto, and Trinidad. 



1208. Nyctinomus minutus Miller. 



'^Nyctinomus brasiliensis Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 



N. Y., 1892, p. 316. (Part.) 

 Nyctinomus minutus Miller, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. N. Y., 

 1899, p. 173. Elliot, Mamm. Middle Amer. & W. Indies, 

 F. C. M. Pub., IV, Pt. II, 1904, p. 630. Zool. Ser. 

 Little Free-tailed Bat. 



Type locality. Trinidad, Island of Cuba. 

 Geogr. Distr. Island of Cuba. 



Family IV. Tliyroptcridsi'. FiiiiiK^ll-eariMl ltat>i. 



Genus 176. S|)(M'ti-('l]iini. 



Spectrellum Gerv., Exped. du Comte de Casteln. I'Amer. Sud, Mamm., 

 Zool., 1855, p. 51. Type Spectrelhim macruriim Gervais. 

 ^N'atahis (misprint ioT Natalis) Gray, Mag. Zool. Bot., 11, 1838, p. 496. 

 Type A'atalus! straminetis Gray, (nee Lap., Coleopt., 1836, 

 Natalis.) 



1209. Spectrellum stramineum (Gray). 



Nataliis! stramineus Gray, Mag. Zool. Bot., 11, 1838, p. 496. 



Spectrelhim macriirum Gerv., Compt. Rend. Acad. Scien. Paris, 

 1856, p. 347- 



Natalis stratnineus Elliot, Mamm. Middle Amer. & W. Indies, 

 F. CM. Pub., IV, Pt. II, 1904, p- 632, figs. 126, cii. Zool. Ser. 

 Straw-colored Bat. 



Type locality. Unknown. 



Geogr. Distr. Island of Dominica, West Indies; Guatemala, Cen- 

 tral America, to Brazil, South America. 



a. Spectre1h(m sfyann'neuni in a j or (Miller). 



Natalus! major Miller, Proc. Acad. Nat. Scien. Phil., 1902, p. 398. 



Natalis stramineus major Elliot, Mamm. Middle Amer. & W. 



Indies, F. C. M. Pub., iv, Pt. 11, 1904, p. 633. Zool. Ser. 



*Nyctinomus brasiliensis Is. Geoflfroy does not seem to be found beyond 

 the boundaries of South America. 



fThe genus Nataliis Gray, 1838, being preoccupied by Natalis Lap., 1836, 

 necessitates a new name for the Family, which, by adopting the oldest proposed 

 genus Thyroptera. according to the rule governing such cases, would be 

 Thyropterid.^. 



