﻿NOMENCLATURE. 



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Vespcrtilio lasiirus Boddaert is probably a misprint for V. lasmrus, since 

 reference is made to Sclirebers plate.' 



Lecontii (Plecotus). Cooper, Ann. Lycenm Kat. Hist. Xew York, lY, 

 p. 72, 1848. Concerning Plecotus Jecontii^ Cooper says: 



The uame macrot'm 1 have ventured to supersede, as being in noAvise distinctiA'e of 

 the species, but in reality derived from a generic cliar..cter, Avhicli in some species 

 is more developed than iu the present. The ears being therefore rather s)ii(tIJ for the 

 genus, this name becomes contradictory; and no Anuu'ican naturalist \Yill regret the 

 opportunity thus afforded of i)aying a well merited tribute to the discoverer of so 

 many rare and remarkable auimals of this country. 



The name is of course a synonym of macrotis Le Conte. 



Leibii (Vespertilio). And. tS: Bacli., Journ. Acad. i^at. Sci. Pbila., 

 VIII, Pt. II, p. 284, 1842. Veqwrfilio leibii And. & Bach., from Erie 

 County, Midi, [now Ohio] is probably Mijotis lucifugns Le Conte. The 

 measurements are as foHoNvs: " Length of head and body 1 inch 7 lines; 

 tail 1 inch 4 lines; spread 7 inches; height of ear posteriorly 2i lines; 

 tragus 1 line." 



Longicrus (Vespertilio). True, Science, YIII, No. 203, p. 588, Dec. 24, 

 1886. Vespertilio loitf/icrus True, is the only name based on the com- 

 mon western subspecies of Myotis subulatus. 



Lucifugus (Vespertilio). Le Conte, McMurtrie's Cuvier, Animal King- 

 dom, I, 1). 431, 1831. The original description of Vespertilio lucifugus 

 I Le Conte is as follows : 



' Anterior upper iore-tecth bilobate; body above dark brown, Ijeueath cinereous ; 

 nose sub-bilobate; face with a uakedish ])rominen('e on each side; ears ol)long, 

 naked, tragus sul)-linear, half as long as the ears; tail projecting a little beyond the 

 membrane; length to the insertion of the tail two inches and a(xuarter; tail one 

 inch and a quarter. 



From this alone it would be impossible to identify the animal that 

 the writer had in mind. Fortunately, Le Conte treated the species iu 

 more detail in a ])aper published in the Proceedings of the Academy 

 of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia for isr)5 (p[). 431-438). Here he 

 recognizes three species of ' Vespertilio^ with thirty-eight teeth as oecur- 

 irng in the eastern United States. These are V. suhulatus, V. lucifugus, 

 and V. georgianus. V. georgianus is clearly IHpistrcllus suhflarus, which 

 Le Conte placed with the tliirty-eight-toothed species through an error 

 in counting the teeth. V. lucifugus and V. suhuhitus of Le Conte are 

 evidently based on individual variations in the shorter-eared of the two 

 eastern species of J/t/o^Z-v. The only differences in Le Conte's descrij)- 

 tions of the two forms are the following: suhulutus: Ear slightly 

 ; emarginate; length 2.9; tail 1.1; extent 9.4; head .9; ears .4; orillou 

 > .3. V. lucifugus: Ears so much emarginated as to appear hooked; 

 length 3.8; tail 1.6; extent 11.7; head .75; ears .45; orillon .2. 



Boddaert's account is as follows : 



''Lasurus. 16. V. cauda longissima, rostro oblique truncate, la longne Queue. 

 ' Schreb., tab. 52. B long tailed Bat." 



Habitat: ''QuareDoct. Erxleben, Zimmeruuiun, Pennant hunc uotabilem vesper- 

 tilionem omiserunt, mihi latet.^^ 



