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Characters. — I have not seeu specimens of JS^ycHceins from Cuba, but 

 Gundlacli's carefal description of the animal leaves no doubt that it is 

 distinct from the form occurring on the mainland. It is distinguished 

 from the latter by smaller size and apparently also by paler color. A 

 translation of Gundlach's second and more perfect account of the 

 animal is as follows: Pelage above light tawny (the fur blackish at 

 base), beneath pale reddish tawny (the base of the fur likewise black- 

 ish). Face and flight membranes blackish brown. The nose appears 

 somewhat divided hy the projecting nostrils; between the nose and the 

 eyes there is on each side a protuberance with bristl}' hairs. Ears oval, 

 lengthened (8 mm. high in front). The anterior base rounded and 

 sjireading outward; the posterior at the angle of the mouth forms a 

 semicircle. This semicircle, which bends inward to the tragus, forms 

 another rounded enlargement. Tragus oblong, scarcely narrowed 

 throughout, somewhat bent in the form of a sickle forward and pro- 

 vided with a tooth-shaped lobule at the base of the exterior border. 

 ISTails tawny. 



''The measurements of a dry specimen are as follows : Width between 

 extremities of wing, 0.180 m.; total length of body, 0.045; length of 

 tail, 0.029; length of head, 0.016; length of ear, 0.012; length of fore- 

 arm, 0.030; length of thumb, 0.005 J; length of second or index finger, 

 0.029^; length of third finger, 0.055; of fourth finger, 0.046; of fifth fin- 

 ger, 0.040; length of tibia, 0.011; length of foot to the end of nails, 

 0.006J; length of calcar, 0.013. 



This is a rare species. I have only observed it at Habana (Oerro) in 

 a house where it lived in a crack above the window, and in the field 

 near Cardenas, where I killed it while flying about at dusk. A female 

 contained two embryos in May." ' 



' Pelaje, por eucima pstlido-pardo (los pelos con la base uegrnzca), por debajo pjtlido 

 bermejizo-pardo (la base de los pelos tarn bi en negruzca). Cara j merabranas vola- 

 doras, morenas. La nariz aparece algo dividida por las ventanas saltonas; eutre la 

 nariz y los ojos bay en cada lado nn rollo con pelos tiesos. Orejas ovales, alargadas 

 (por delaute con 8 mil. de alto). La base anterior, redonda y extendida bacia fuera; 

 la posterior, pelada en el .Ingulo de la boca y extendida en un semieirculo, qne incli- 

 nado b^icia dentro basta la orejnela, forma una segunda ampliacion redonda. Ore- 

 juela oblonga, adelgazandose ap<?nas, algo encorvada en forma de boz bacia delante, 

 y provista en la base del borde exterior con un lobulo dentiforme. Unas pardas. 



Las modidas, tomadas de nn ejeraplar disecado, son: 



Anchura entre iaa pnntas del ala, 0.180 mil. ; longitud basta elfin del cuerpo, 0.045; 

 longitnd del rabo, 0.029; longitnd de la cabeza, 0.016; longitad de la oreja, 0.012; 

 longitud del antebrazo, 0.030 ; longitud del pnlgar, 0.005^; longitud del segundo dedo 

 6 Indice, 0.029t}; longitnd del tercero dedo, 0.055; longitud del quarto dedo, 0.046; 

 longitud del quinto dedo, 0.040; longitud de la tibia, 0.011 ; longitud del pi^ basta el 

 fin de les unas, 0.006|; longitud del espolon, 0.013. 



Es especie rara. La be observado solamente en la Habana (Cerro) en una casa 

 donde Yivia, en las rendijas sobre una ventana, y en el campo cerca de Cardenas, 

 donde la mate al oscureeer volando. Una 9 tenia en mayo dos embriones. 



