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Merriami (Vesperugo). Dobson, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist., XYIII, j). 

 124, 1886. Vespcrugo merriami Dobson, was based on a specimen of 

 Pipistrellus hesperns from Eed Bluff, Teliama County, Cal., wrongly 

 supposed to have been taken at Locust Grove, N. Y. 



Mexicana (Atalapha). Saussure, Revue et Mag. de Zool., 2e ser., XIII, 

 p. 97, 1861. Atalapha mexicana Saussure is the first name based on 

 tbe soutliern race of Lasiurus horealis, afterwards described by Peters 

 a.s A talapha frantzii. 



Mexicanus (Vespertilio). Saussure, Revue et Mag. de Zool., 2e ser., 

 Xll, p. 282, July, 1860. Under tlie name Yespertilio mexicanus Saus- 

 sure described tlie large, dark Mexican form of Myotis calif ornicus, 

 whicli bad hitherto received no name. 



Miradorensis (Scotophilus). H. Allen, Proc. Acad. Xat. Soi. Phila., p. 

 287, 1866. Scotophilus miradorensis H. Allen is the only name based 

 on the large southern form of Vespertilio fuscus, 



Monachus (Vespertilio). Rafinesque, American Monthly Mag., Ill, j). 

 445, 1818. The original description of Ratinesque's Vespertil to monachus 

 leaves no doubt that it refers to Lasiurus borcalis (Miiller). It is as 

 follows: 



Tail one-fourth, hairy abov^e, fringed laterally, body i)al('. fallow above and below, 

 head and neck covered with a longer fnr of a dark red fallow, Aviiigs dark gray, 

 shafts red, hind feet black, nose red, ears concealed in the fur. Length 1 inches, 

 breadth 12. 



Monticola (Vespertilio). Aud. & Bach., Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 

 I, Ko. 7, p. 92, October, 1841. Vespertilio monticola is probably Pipis- 

 trelhis suhflavus (F. Cuvier), though the description is not wholly per- 

 tinent to this species. The original account is as follows : 



Vespertilio monticola (Mountain bat). — V. vespertilione subulata brevior ; auriculus 

 brevioribus; tragus nonexcedentibns, dimidiarnlongitudineni auricula*; colore fulvo. 



Mountain Bat. — Smaller than Say's bat ( T. snbulatitti) ; ears shorter; tragus, less 

 than half the length of the ear; color, yellowish brown. Upper fore teeth bilobate, 

 ears moderate, naked, erect, rather broad at base; tragus linear, subulate, body 

 small; wings long; tail projecting a line beyond the interfemoral membrane, which 

 is slightly sprinkled with hair above and beneath. 



Color. — The nose and cliiu are black; ears light brown; wing membranes dark 

 brown. The whole of the fur of the body, above and beneath, is from the roots, of 

 a uniform yellowish-brown color. 



The species differs from Say's bat not only in color, but in tbe much shorter ears and 

 tragus. The size and sha])e of the tragus we have found an invaluable guide in our 

 American bats; the ears of the present sjiecies, when alive, are always erect; while 

 those of Say's Bat arc folded backward like those of the long-eared Bats — Ple- 

 Goius. * * * 



Dimensions. — Length of head and body, 1 inch 8 lines; length of tail, 1 inch 6 

 lines; length of spread, 8 inches; height of ear posteriorly, 3 lines; height of 

 tragus, 1^ lines. 



N. B. — The tragus in Say's Bat is four-and-a-half lines in height. Several sjx'ci- 

 mens of this Bat were obtained during the summer, cn the mountains of Virginia, at 

 the Grey Sulphur Springs. They were uniform in size and color. 



