Note on the <I>Vespertilio blythii</I> of Tomes

( rI- 1 1 1-I'llI Xnti'X. 1")")

upright portion ^of the noselcaf is

"much

narrower than the horse shoe,"

and

the prominences on ^the chinareof very peculiar form. In

M. inicrotixthe upright portion ^of the noseleaf is fully as wide as the 'horse-shoe,'

and

theprominences onthe chin are exactly^{as in} normal

members

of the genus. ^{(1errit S.} \nilcr,Jr.

The

_systematic

name

of the

Cuban

red bat.

In

Ramon

do la Sacra's IlistoriaFisica PoliticayNatural<lela Islade Cuba, III, p. '>2, 1845, Gervais describes the

cuban

red bat as Vesperfilio

hluxitcrittii. Publicationof the

name

heattributestoLesson

and

_Garnot,

"Bull. Sc. Nat. VIII, p. 95." This reference I have not been able to verify, but it unquestionably antedates the publication ^of Gundlach's

name

Atnln/i/tfi iift'ifferi (18til) by ^sixteen years.

The

animal should thereforebe

known

as Luxinnixhlnxxt-rinii. (icrrit N. Miller, Jr.

Note

on the Vespertilio blythii of

Tomes.*

In 1857

Tomes

published^adescription^of the Indian representative^of Mt/nti* myotix under the

name

Vespertilio blythii (Proc.Zool. Hoc.

Lon

don, 1857, p. 53). Recent authors have without _exception regarded ^the animalas identicalwiththe

European

^form.

A

_specimencollectedby^Dr.

YV. L. Abbott in

Kashmir

₍₉ adult No. _'$\*^ United States National

Museum)

shows, however, ^thatthisviewisnot _correct,

and

that Myotix blythii^isa well characterized species, readily distinguishable from M.

iitynfixhy ^itsshorterears,

much

smaller audital bulhe,

and

_byapeculiar ity in the formof the maxillary ^{molars. In} these teeth the protocone

is lower and further

removed

from the paracone than ⁱⁿ M. _myotix, a character

which

is at once appreciable

when

the teeth of the

two

species are viewed in profile from the front. This peculiarity ^{is evi-} dently ^ofconsiderable importance, ^asIcan findnoappreciable variation in the form of the molars

among

^a large

number

of

European

speci

mens

of M. _myotix. Otcrrit <v. Millct\Jr.

The

Scotophilus

pachyomus

^of

Tomes

a valid species.

Described in 1857 _(Proc. Zool. Soc. London, p. 50) from specimens taken in India the faotophtfot*pat-kyomus ^of

Tomes

has of recent years been regarded ^as inseparable from the

European

^{Serotine Bat} (see Dobson, Catal. C'hiropt. Brit. Mus.. p. 101, and _Blanford,

Mamm.

^Brit.

India, p. ^:

>

>0:5).

Two

individualstaken by ^Dr.

W.

L. Abbottin the Vale

of

Kashmir and now

inthe UnitedStates National

Museum

_{(Nos. Iffft}

and

_{|i';,V-) agree} in allrespectswith the characters given by

Tomes and

;fThis note and the four following are published ^here bypermission of the Secretarvof the SmithsonianInstitution.