218 PROCEEDINGS: BOSTON SOCIETY NATURAL HISTORY. 
Remarks. This is one of the commonest hats of Florida and 
southern Georgia. 
Specimens examined. Total number thirty-six, from the follow¬ 
ing localities: Florida, Chattahooehie, one (U. S. Nat. Mus.); 
Blitches Ferry, eighteen ; Citronelle, thirteen (Bangs coll.); Old 
Town, three (Miller coll.); Titusville, one (U. S. Nat. Mus.). 
Nyctinomus cyxocephalus (Leconte). 
Nycticea cynocepliala Leconte, McMurtrie’s Cuvier, Animal king¬ 
dom, 1831, vol. 1, append., p. 432. 
Type locality. Probably near Riceboro, Georgia. 
Remarks. While I am not now prepared to discuss the relation¬ 
ship of the free-tailed bat of Florida and the Austroriparian fauna 
at large to the South American Nyctinomus brasiliensis , the chances 
that the former is the same as the latter are so remote, that I prefer 
to use for it the specific name cynocephalus Leconte, unquestion¬ 
ably based on the animal of the southeastern United States. 
In September, 1894, one of Mr. Bangs’s collectors secured twelve 
skins of this bat at Blitches Ferry, Citrus County, Florida, but 
unfortunately neglected to preserve the skulls. In color these 
specimens are remarkably uniform. The fur of the entire animal 
is dark, dull brown, wholly without trace of red. On the back 
the exact shade is intermediate between the “ seal brown ” and 
“ mummy brown ” of Ridgway, but nearer the former. In certain 
lights it shows a distinct grayish cast. Ventral surface paler than 
back, but without trace of gray. The hairs throughout the pelage, 
though not bicolor, are paler at extreme base. 
Measurements. Nine females give the following averages and 
extremes: 1 
Total length: 99.7 (95-105); forearm, 39.5 (37-42); longest 
finger, 79.2 (75-83). Two males measure respectively: total length, 
102; forearm, 38 ; longest finger, 80; and total length, 97 ; fore¬ 
arm, 41 ; longest finger, 84. 
Cariacus osceola Bangs. 
Cariacus osceola Bangs, Proc. Biol. soc. Wash., February, 1896, 
vol. 10, p. 26. 
iTotal length from fresh specimens by collector, the other measurements from dry 
skins. 
