86 



The above characterization, by Dr. Coaes, includes Ja group of bats 

 agreeing in the absence, when aiult, of median upper incisors, and so 

 differing from the species of Vespertilio. Regarding the name Atalapha, 

 the same author says: "Among Rifinesque's names we adopt Atalaplpa, 

 which he says contains ' bats without fore teeth " (i. e., lacking the mid- 

 dle upper incisors) — an expression, it is trne, not accurate, but still in- 

 telligible; and, in the case of this writer's work, we have generally to 

 choose between inaccuracy and unintelligibility, excepting when what 

 he says is both erroneous and enigmatical." 



Atalapha (Lasiubus) noveboeagensis (Erxl.) Coues. 

 Kbd Bat; New York Bat. 



1777. Vespertilio noveboracensis, Erxleben, Syst. Anim., 1777, 134. — Har- 

 lan, Fn. Amer., 1825, 20.— Godmm, Am. Nat. Hi^t., i, 1831, 68. 

 —Cooper, Ann. Lye. N. Y., 1837, 57.— DaKay, Nat. Hist. N. Y.^ 

 1842, 6, pi. ii.— LeConte, Proc. Phila. Acad., 1855, 432. 



1788. Vespertilio lasiurua, Gmelin, S. N., 1788, 50. 



1796. Vespertilio rubellus, Beauvois, Cat. Peale's Mas., 1796. 



1806. Vespertilio villossisimus, Geofifroy, Ann. Mas., viii, 1806, 478. 



1817. Vespertilio monachus and tesselatus, Raf., Am. Month. Mag., iv, 1817, 

 445. 



1825. Taphyzous rufus, HarJan, Fn. Am., 1S25, 23. 



1829. Vespertilio blossevillii, Less, et Garn., Bull. So. Nat., viii, 95. 



1831. Nycticejus noveboracensis, LeConte, McMurtrie's Cav., 1831, 432. 



1835. Nycticejus varius, Poeppig, Reise Chili, i, 1835, 451. 



1842. Lasiurus rufus, Gray, List. Mamm. Br. Mus., 1843, 32. 



1855. Nycticejus lasiurus, Wagner, Suppl. Schreb., v, 1855, 772. 



1857. Lasiurus noveboracensis, Tomes, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1857, 34. — Allen, 

 Monog., 16. 



1875. Atalapha (Lasiurus) noveboracensis, Coues and Yarrow, Geog. and 

 Geolog Expl. and Surv. West 100th Merid., v, 1875, 87. 

 ' Red Bat, Wilson; New York Bat, Pennant. 



Description. — Length about 3.75 inches; tail 1.75 to 2.00; extent of 

 wings 10 50 to 12.Q0; shin .75; arm 1.66; longest finger 3.33 ; ear .33 to .50 

 high. Teeth 32; molars |; front upper premolars hidden by being 

 wedged between the next and the canine ; upper incisors small, strongly 

 convergent ; lower ones crowded ; lower canines pointing backward. Tail 

 entirely included in femoral membrane; head and face hairy; nose blunt, 

 rounded, with semi-lateral nostrils. Ears nearly circular ; tragus half as 

 high as auricle, straight on inner border, the end obtuse and abruptly 

 tuaned. Wings furry in patches ; body fur extending to base of third 



