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Vespertilio salarii is iudetermiuable. No known North American bat 

 combines hairy lips, reddish brown color, and two premolars in each 

 jaw.i 



Seminola (Atalapha borealis). Ehoads, Proc. Acad. Kat. Sci. Phila., p. 



32, 1895. This is the dull mahogany-brown race of Lasiurus dorealis 

 pecnliar to the Austroriparian fauna. No other name has been based 

 on this animal. 



Septentrionalis (Vespertilio gryphus). Trouessart, Oatalogus Mamma- 

 lium tam Viventium quam Fossilium, i). 131, 1897. Trouessart's Ves- 

 pertilio gryplms var. septe^itrionalis is the only name unquestionably 

 based on the Myotis commonly known as Vespertilio subnlatus Say. It 

 is merely a latinization of 'northern form of Vespertilio gryplms^'' the 

 designation applied by Dr. Harrison Allen in his Monograph of 1893 

 to the y. suhulatiis of his first monograph. 



Serotinus (Nyctilestes). Marsh, Am. Journ. Sci. & Arts, 3d ser., lY, 

 p. 215, 1872.. The name Nyctilestes serotinus was ai)i>lied by Marsh to 

 the fossil jaw of a bat found by him at Grizzly Buttes, Wyoming. 



Subflavus (Vespertilio). Ouvier, Nouv. Ann. Mus. d'Hist. Nat., Paris, 

 I, p. 17, 1832. Ves2)ertilio subflavus is one of the few North American 

 bats named by F. Cuvier that can be identified. It is without doubt 

 the Georgia bat {Fipistrellus snhflavus), commonly known as ' Vesperucjo 

 fjeorgianus.^ The i)eculiar coloring of this species, unique among the 

 bats of the eastern United States, is very accurately described.'-^ This 

 is the first account of an American bat in which this color i)attern is 

 referred to. The mixture of dark and light hues in Cuvier's V. georgi- 

 anus is due to the shortness of the fur in his specimen, which allows 

 the dark bases of the hairs to appear irregularly on the surface. This 

 is not at all the case with the small Fipistrellus of the eastern United 

 States. In this bat the hairs are tricolored, dark at the bases, yellowish 



^Tlie original description is as follows: 



"A la tcto dcs Murino'ides et deux fansses molaires de chaqne c6t6 des deux ma- 

 choires; I'oreille est cchaucrde et I'oreillon en couteau. Toutcs les parties snperi- 

 eures du corps sont d'un brnn-marron grisatre, et les parties inferieures gris- 

 blaucliatres. Aux parties bruucs les poils sont pins fonces h lenr nioitio inferieure 

 qn'a leur supiSrienre ; ils sont noias dans cette inferieure anx parties gris. Les par- 

 tics nues sont brnnes, des moustaches garnissent les cot^s de la levre snperieure 

 et le dessous de rextrcmite de la macboire inferieure. 



"Longneur du corps, du bout du museau a I'origine de la queue, 1 pouce 6 lignes-; 

 de la queue, 1 pouce 7 lignes; envergure, 7 ponces 7 lignes. 



''Des environs de New York. Du aux rechercbes de M. Milbert." 



^Tbe original description is as follows: 



''A la tete des Murinoides ; I'oreille est ^cbancrde, et I'oreillon en demi-cojur. Les 

 j)arties sup^rieures du corps sont d'un blond gris clair, legi-reraent ondulees de 

 brunatre; les parties inferieures d'un blanc jaunatre; les x^oils des parties sup6ri- 

 enrcs sont noirs a leur base, blancbatres dans la plus grande partie de leur longueur, 

 ct brunatres a leurpointe; ceux des parties inferieures sont noirs j\ leur moiti^ in- 

 ferieure, et d'un blanc jaiunatre a leur autre moiti6. Des moustaches garnissent les 

 cdtes de la levre snperieure, et le dessous de I'extr6mit6 de la macboire inferieure. 



''Longueur du corj^s, du bout du museau a I'origine de la queue, 1 pouce 6 lignes; 

 de la queue, 1 pouce 3 lignes ; envergure, 7 ponces. 



"De Georgie. Du aux rechercbes de M. le major Leconte." 



