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Genus MYOTIS Kaup. 



Fig. 11.- 



Skulla of (a) Myotis viyotis, (b) M. thysanodes, and (c) 

 M. nigricans ( X2). 



1829. My.otis Kaup, Skizzirte Entw.-Gescli. u. Natiirl. Syst. d. Enrop. Tliierw., I, p. 



106. Type Fespertilio mnrinus Sclireber (not V. mitrinus Linn.). 

 1829. ]\^ystactes Ksbivpf Skizzirte Entw.-Gescli. u. Natiirl. Syst. d. Europ. TMerw., p. 

 108. Type Vesperiilio 

 hechsteinii Leisler. 

 1839. VespertiJio Keyserling & 

 Blasius, Wiegmann's 

 Arcliiv f. Naturgescli., 

 5ter Jahrg., Bd. 1, p. 

 306 (not V esp ertilio 

 Linnjens, 1758). 

 1841. Selysiiis Bonaparte, Icon- 

 ografia Fauna Italica, 

 I, Introduzione [p. 3]. 

 Type Vespertilio mysta- 

 cinns Leisler. 

 1856. Brachyofus Kolenati, All- 

 gem. Deutscli. Natur- 

 hist. Zeitg., Dresden, 

 Neue Folge, II, pp. 

 131, 174-177. Based on the species mysiaciniis, daithentonW, and dasycneme. 

 1856. Isotits Kolenati, Allgeni. Deutsch. Naturhist. Zeitg., Dresden, Neiie Folge, II, 



pp. 131, 177-179. Included the species tiaitereri and cm a rg 'mat us. 

 1864. VespertUlo H. Allen, Monogr. N. Am. Bats, p. 46. (isot Vesperiilio Linn., 1758.) 

 1870. Jeom/cs Fitzinger, Sitzungsber. Math. -Nat. CI. K. Akad. Wiss., Wien, LXII. 



Abth. I, pp. 427-436. Included the 

 species viUosissimns, aJhescens, and 

 mgricans. 



1870. Comastes Fitzinger, Sitzungsber. 



Math. -Nat. CI. K. Akad. Wiss., 

 Wicn, LXII, Abth. I, pp. 565-579. 

 ( In ( •! uded eajxi cci n i i , iii eg a pod I lis, 

 dasyeneme and UiiniopJiiJtis.) 

 1878. Vespertilio Dol)SOii, Catal. Chiroptera 

 Brit. Mus., p. 284 (not Vespertilio 

 Linn MS 1758). 

 1893. Vespertilio H. Allen, Monogr. Bats N. 



Am., p. 70. (Not Vesperiilio Linn., 

 1858). 



Type species. — Myotis myotis (Becli- 

 ^tQi\\)= Vespertilio mvrimis Sclireber 

 et Auct., nee Linii. 



Geographic (listribution. — Temper- 

 ate aud tropical parts of both liemis 

 pberes. 



Generic characters. — Deutal form- 

 ula: 



. 2-2 1-1 3-3 

 ^' ^' 1-1' 3-3' 



Fig. 12.— Skulls of (a) Myotis nigricans, 0) M 

 thysanodes, and (c) M. myotis (X2). 



:38. 



1-1 3-3 3-3 



l^^^h 3.3; '^^h 3_3 



BemarTcs. — Tbe Nortli American members of tbe genus Myotis are all 

 small, delicately formed bats, whicb, aside from their dental formula, 



