Vol. XXVII, pp. 225-226 
December 29, 1914 
PROCEEDINGS 
OF TUF. 
BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON 
A NEW BAT FROM CUBA. 
I'.Y GERRIT S. MILLER, Jr. 
[I’ublislied by permission of the Secretary of the Smitlisonian Institution.] 
In February, 1902, Mr. William Palmer collected a bat of 
the genus Chilonatalus in a cave at Baracoa, eastern Cuba. This 
specimen I recorded two years later * as Chilonatalus microims, 
thongb with some doubt as to its strict identity with the 
•Jamaican form. During a recent visit to Washington, Mr. 
Charles T. Ramsden kindly placed at my disposal a second 
specimen of the same animal killed as it flew from a clump of 
cane near Guantanamo. On comparing these two individuals 
with four .Jamaican micropus J find that tlie Cuban liat is a 
readily distinguishable local form. 
Chilonatalus macer sp. nov. 
7^^pg__Adult female (in alcoliol). No. 113,724, U. S. National Mnsenm. 
Collected at Baracoa, Cuba, Eebruary 0, 1902, by William Palmer. 
Original number (>99. 
Characters.—'iAke the Jamaican Chilonatalus micropus (Dobson) as 
regards general size and length of forearm (32 mm. in both Cuban spec¬ 
imens, 32-33 in three from Jamaica), bnt tibia longer (18 in both Cuban 
specimens, 15.5-10 in four from Jamaica); skull with braincase essentially 
as in C. micropus (breadth 0.0 and 0.2 in the Cuban specimens, 0.0 in 
two from Jamaica), but with rostrum more elongate (length from 
narrowest part of interorbital constriction 7.2 and 7.4 in the Cuban 
specimens, 0.() in two from Jamaica). 
Color .—In the Ramsden specimen (skin) the main color above is a 
dark cinnamon-lmfl moderately clouded by the dark brownish ti]>s to the 
hairs; underparts clear, light pinkish-buH'; membranes moderately dark 
brown. After nearly fifteen years’ exposure to alcohol the color of the 
type appears to be essentially lik e that of t he skin. _ 
* Froc. U. S. National Museum, vol. 27, p. 340. .lamiary 23, 1904. 
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