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NORTH AMERICAN FAUNA. 



description^ of this species, its subsequent treatment is such as to leave 

 no reasonable doubt that Eailnesque had in inind tlie bat aftei waid 

 named Ni/cticea crepuscular is by Le Conte. In 1819 Ralinesque based 

 the genus Nycticeiiis on two of his species of Yespertilio which differed 

 from all others known to him in the possession of only two incisors 

 in the «pper jaw. One of these, Y. tesselatus, was the red bat, Lasiurus 

 horeaUs. The other, F. Jnimeralis, nuist have been the twilight bat, as 

 there is nothing in the description that precludes it, and no other small 

 species with two upper incisors is known in the eastern United States. 



Incautiis (Vespertilio). J. A. Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., VIII, 

 p. 239, November 21, 1896. Yespertilio incautus J. A. Allen, is a syno- 

 nym of Myotis relifer (J. A. Allen), based on specimens of the latter 

 fi om San Antonio, Tex. (See p. 59.) 



Intermedins (Lasiurus). H. Allen, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. (1862), 

 p. 140, 1863. This is the only specific name based on the bat now 

 known as JJasypterus intermedins. 



Keenii (Vespertilio subulatus). Merriam, American Naturalist, XXIX, 

 p. 860, September 1, 1894. Yespertilio suhuhitus l-eenii is the only name 

 based on the dark form of Myotis suhulatus occurring on the Queen 

 Charlotte Islands, British Columbia. 



Lanceolatus (Vespertilio). Maximilian, Eeise in das Innere Nord- 

 Anierica, I, p. 364, footnote, 1839. The specific name lanceolatus was 

 proposed by Maximilian as a substitute for s/^/>?/7rtf?/5, should the animal 

 Avhich he designated by the latter name inove to be difl:'ereiit from 

 Say's.'^ Maximilian's subulatus is described at considerable length and 

 is probably the Yespertilio lueifur/us of Le Conte. The following meas- 

 urements are given: Total length. 3" extent, 8'^ d"'; tail, 1" 3"^; 

 ear, 6"'-, tragus, 2^'". 



Lasiurus (Vespertilio). Schreber, Siingthiere, Abth. I, PI. LXII B, 

 published with Abth. IV, Heft 34, 1781.^ The figure of Yespertilio 

 lasiurus is a good representatio!i of the red bat [Lasiurus horeaJis ]\Iiil- 

 ler, 1776). Dobson^ cites this name as dating from 1775, in which case 

 it would be the earliest for the species. This is, however, a mistake. PI. 

 LXII ax^peared with Abth. I in 1774, but PI. LXII B, was not i)ub- 

 lished until 1781 with Abth. IV, Heft 34. The species is mentioned in 

 Abth. I (i>. 176) as 'Die nordamerikanische Fledermaus.' 



Lasurus (Vespertilio). Boddaert, Elenchus Animalium I, p. 71, 1785. 



^Tail tliree-seventlis. npper incisores 2, remote, lower 6, body dark brown above, 

 shoulders black, gray beneath, wiugs, tail, ears, and snout blackish, eyes under the 

 hair, ears longer than the head, elliptical, auriculated. Length 3 1-2 inches, 

 breadth 11. 



-Diese Fledermaus beschriel) ich in meinem Tagebuche unter der Beuenuung Fesp^ 

 lanceolatus, sie hat aber viel Aehnlichkeit mit Say's V. suhulatus. Zu Bethlehem in 

 Pennsylvanien erhielt ich zwei Exemplare * * * _ 



^For date of publication see Sherboni, Proc, Zool. Soc. London, 1891, p. 589. 



-•Catal. Chiroptera Brit, Mus., p. 269, 1878. 



