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NORTH AMERICAN FAUNA. 



Macleayii (Scotophilus). Gray, List Spec. Mainiii. Brit. Mus., p. 30, 



1843. Scotophilus macleayii Gray is a iionien nudum, probably based 

 on Vespertilio fuscm cnhensis. Gray says merely: " MacLeay's Bat. 

 Scotophilus MacLeayii a In spirits. Male. Ouba.— Presented by 

 W. S. MacLeay, Esq." 



Macropus (Vespertilio). H. Allen, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Pliila., p. 288. 

 1866. Vespertilio Diacrojms H. Allen is a synouyui of Myotis yumanensis 

 (H. Allen). The name is, moreover, preoccupied by Vespertilio macropus 

 Gould, 1854.^ 



Macrotis (Plecotus). Le Oonte, McMurtrie's Ouvier, Animal King- 

 dom, I, 431, 1831. Plecotus macrotis Le Conte is the first name cer- 

 tainly applied to tlie bat now l^nown as Corynorhinus macrotis. 

 Eafinesque's Vespertilio megalotis may have been the same auimal, but 

 his description is so poor that it is impossible to determine what he 

 refers to. 



Maculatus (Histiotus). J. A. Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. Kat. Hist,, New 

 York, III, p. 195, 1891. Histiotus maculatus is the name under which 

 the bat now known as Euderuui uiaculatiim. was first described. 



Megalotis (Vespertilio). Eafinesque, American Monthly Mag., Ill, p. 

 446, 1818. There is nothing in the original description'^ of Eafines(|ue's 

 Vespertilio megalotis by which the species can be identified. It is pos- 

 sibly the animal afterwards named Plecotus macrotis by Le Conte. 



Melanops (Eptesicus). Eafinesque, Annals of Nature, p. 3, 1820. 

 When Eafinesque transferred his Vespertilio phaiops to the genus 

 Eptesicus^ he changed the specific name to melanops^ thus adding 

 another to the synonyms of Vespertilio fuscus. 



Melanorhinus (Vespertilio). Merriam, North American Fauna, No. 3, 

 p. 46, September 11, 1890. Vespertilio melanorhinus Merriam is a syn- 

 onym of Myotis californieus, based on a specimen of the latter from San 

 Francisco Mountain, Arizona. 



Melanotus (Vespertilio). Eafinesque, American Monthly Mag., Ill, p. 

 445, 1818. Eafinesque's Vespertilio melanotus is hopelessly indetermi- 

 nable. The original description is : 



Tail oue-tliird, brown above, gray beneath, body blackisli above, whitish l)eneath, 

 Avings dark gray, shafts black, ears aiiriculated, roimdcd. Leugth 4 1-2 inches, 

 breadth 12 1-2. 



Melas (Eptesicus). Le Oonte, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila.,VII (1854-55), 

 p. 438, 1856. In a paper on the bats of the United States published in 

 1856, Le Oonte refers to Eptesicus melas Eafinesque as an unidentified 

 species. I have been abh^. to find no such name in any of Eafinesque's 

 writings and therefore suppose that Eptesicus melas is a misprint for 

 E. mydas^ especially as the latter is not mentioned by Le Oonte. 



^Mammals of Australia, III {fide Dobson). 



2 Tail three-eighths of total length, body dark gray above, pale gray beneath, ears 

 very large, duplicated, auricules nearly as long. Length 4 inches, breadth 12 inches. 



