10. ATALAPBA. 269 



Premolars ^^. Subgen. Atalapha. 



1. Atalapha noveboracensis. 



F Vespertilio lasiurus, Schreber, Sdugethiere, i. pi. Ixii. B (1775) ; Oeofr. 

 Ann. du Mus. viii. p. 200 (1806) ; Besmarest, Mammalogie, p. 142 



Vespertilio noveboracensis, Erxlehen, Syst. Eeg. Anim. p. 165 (1777) ; 



Godman, A^ner. Nat. Hist. i. p. 50 (1826) ; Cooper, Ann. Lye. Nat. 



Hist. Neiv York, iv. p. 57 (1837) : Leconte, Proc. Acad, Nat. Sci. 



Philad. 1855, p. 432. 

 Vespertilio rubellus, P. de Heauvois, Catal. Peak's Mus. Philad. viii. 



p. 201 (1796) [vide Allen, Pats of North America, p. 16 (1864)]. 

 F Vespertilio villosissimus, Geoffrey, I.e. p. 204 (1806). 

 Atalapha americana, Eq/inesgue, Precis des decouvertes, &c. p. 12 



(1814). '^ 



Vespertilio tesselatus, Rajinesque, Amer. Month. May. iv. p. 445 



(1817). 

 F Vespertilio bonariensis, Lesson, Voy. de la Coquille, i. p. 137 (1829). 

 Vespertilio blosseivillii, Lesson et Garnet, Bullet, de Sci. Nat. viii. 



p. 96 ; Gervais, in Sainon de la Sayra's Hist, de I'ile de Cuba, 



Mammif. p. 32, pi. i. (1838). 

 Nj'cticejus noreboracensis, M'Murtrie, Append, Cuv. Anim. Kingd. 



(New York, 1831) p. 432. 

 Nycticejus lasiurus et noveboracensis, Ternminck, Monogr. Mammal, 



ii. pp. 156, 158 (1835-41) ; Wagner, Suppl. Schreb. Saugeth. i. 



p. 545 (1844), V. p. 771 (1855). 

 Lasiurus rufus, Gray, List of Mammals Coll. Brit. Mus. p. 32 (1843). 

 Lasiurus noveboracensis. Tomes, P. Z. S. 1857, p. 34 ; Allen, I. c. 



p. 16. 

 Atalapba noveboracensis, Peters, MB. Akad. Berl. 1870, p. 908. 



Muzzle broad, obtuse, glands of tbe upper lip much developed, 

 adding to the width of the lip, which consequently projects laterally 

 and in front beyond the lower lip ; end of nose broad, faintly con- 

 cave between the nostrils, which are rather widely separated and 

 open laterally, their inner edges not projecting. Ear short and 

 broad, the horizontal portion of the inner margin forms almost a 

 right angle with the ascending front portion, which attains its 

 greatest convexity about the middle ; tip broadly rounded ; outer 

 margin straight or slightly concave beneath, then reflected backwards 

 and terminating in a rather large convex lobe (of which the front 

 margin is marked by an angular emargination) close to the angle of 

 the mouth, from which a small wart separates it. Tragus broad in 

 the middle, with a rather narrow obtuse extremity curved inwards ; 

 the lower half of the inner margin straight, the upper half concave, 

 at the base of the outer margin a triangular lobe, from which the 

 outer margin slopes outwards, attaining its greatest width slightly 

 below the middle of the inner margin, then slopes upwards and in- 

 wards, forming an angle below. 



"VVings from the base of the toes. No postcalcaneal lobe. The 

 extreme tip of the tail projecting. 



