PIPISTRELLUS. VESPERTILIO. 585 
Color. Above reddish brown; beneath paler. 
Measurements. Length of head and body, 50; tail, 45; forearm, 
pee. UotInD, 7.5; tibia, 15; foot, 9.5; ear, 12.5; tragus, s. 
556. cinnamomeus (P7pistrellus), Miller, Proc. Acad. Nat. Scien. 
Phil., 1902, p. 390. 
CINNAMON Bat. 
Type locality. Montechristo, State of Tabasco, Mexico. 
Genl. Char. Size large; skull long, narrow; color uniform; upper 
inner incisor smaller than outer; first and second upper molars with 
an indicated hypocone. 
Color. Uniform cinnamon, slightly inclined to yellow on under 
parts; ears and membranes brown. 
Measurements. Total length, 99; tail, 44; forearm, 37; thumb, 6.8; 
second finger, 35; third finger, 63; fourth finger, 53; fifth finger, 47; 
tibia, 15.4; foot, 9.6; ear from meatus, 11.4; from crown, 9; width of 
ear, 7. Skull: greatest length, 15; basal length, 14; basilar length, 
11.6; palatal length, 6; width of palate between middle molars, 3; 
interorbital constriction, 4; zygomatic breadth, 9; width of braincase, 
above roots of zygomata, 7.2; length of mandible, 11.4; length of 
upper tooth row, 5.8. 
VESPERTILIO as now restricted has comparatively few members, 
but among them are the largest species of the Vespertilionine 
group. In North America there are but three species of the genus, 
with several more or less closely connected races. 
116. *Vespertilio. 
ee ie 
"3-3? "1-1? 2—2’? ~ 
Vespertilio Linn. Syst. Nat., 1, 1758, p. 31; 1, 1766, p. 46. Type 
Vespertilio murinus Linneus. (nec Schreber.) 
Eptesicus Rafin., Ann. Nat., 1, 1820, p. 2. 
Cnepheus Kaup, Skizzirte Entw.—Gesch. u. Naturl. Syst. Europ. 
Thierw., I, 1829, p. 103. 
Noctula Bonp., Iconog. Faun. Ital., 1, 1837, fasc. XxXI. 
Vesperugo Keyserl. & Blas., Wiegm., Archiv. f. Naturg., 1839, 
deol, pies te. (Part?) 
*For reasons for adopting this term rather than Eptesicus Rafin., as ad- 
vised by Méhely (Mon. Chirop, Hung. 1900, pp. 206-308), see Thomas, Ann. 
Mag. Nat. Hist, 7th Ser., viz, 1901, p. 462, and VIII, p. 32 
