The <I>Scotophilus pachyomus</I> of Tomes a valid species

( 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.

156 ^(r-jncr<i! Notes*

show

that the animal differs widely from Veftpertiliu scrotum*. It is slightlylarger than the

European

species, (forearm ^{52, foot 12 (10.4),} tibia 22.4), the skull is broader anteriorly, the crowns of the upper molarsareless

narrowed

onthe lingual ^side

and

the coloris

much

_paler,

Fur

_{very silky} in texture, about 3

mm.

in length ^at middle of back.

Hairs of dorsal surface _light broccolibrown

from

base nearly ^to tip,

then dark _sepia, followed

by

silvery gray ^at extremity.

The

colors blendinsensibly intoeachother,

and

the whitish _{tips of} the hairspro ducea frostedeffectnearlyas distinct asthatin V.murinua.

Fur

ofven tralsurfacevery paleecru drabat base,fading^towhitish gray^attip; a fairly

denned

line of demarkation

between

colors of upper

and

lower surfaces. These characters are sufficient to distinguish VespertiKo pachyomuifspecifically

from

V. serotinus. Gerrit/S'. Miller, Jr.

A

Bat of the genus Lichonycteris ⁱⁿ South America.

Lichonycteris obscurus, the only

known

representative ^{of its} genusy

was

describedin 1895

from

a single adult female taken at

Managua,

Nicaragua (Thomas,

Ann. and

_{Mag. Nat.} Hist.,6th_ser.,

XVI,

pp. 55-57^r July, 1895).

While

identifying

some

old skins in the United States.

National

Museum

Irecentlyfound a specimen ^{of this} species labeled

"Surinam,

Edw.

Koebel." It is without further historyexcept ^thatit

was

entered-in the

Museum

_register, as No. 14815 on

March

6, 1885,

The known

_rangeof thegenus^isthusgreatly extended. Inall respects the

Surinam

_specimen exactly agrees with the charactergiven ⁱⁿ the original description. Gerrit8. Miller, Jr.

The

_systematic

name

ofthe _large

nodule

^bat ofEurope.

The

first notice of the Large Noctule^of southern

Europe

appears^to- have been publishedⁱⁿ¹⁸⁶⁹by^{Fatiointhefirst}

volume

of the "Faune>

des Vertebres de la Suisse.

Here

specimens taken ^{in the} trunk of a treenear Amsteg,

Canton

of Uri, Switzerland, were recorded as [IV*- perugonoctula\ ^var.

maxima

(Mammiferes, p. 57).

More

recently ¹

he

animal has beenconsidered identical with the Pterygiftes laxioptemtxof

China and Japan

(For references^seeTrouessart,Catalogus

Mammalium

r I,p. 111).

Two

specimens

from

_{Pisa, Italy, recently} obtained by ^the- UnitedStatesNational

Museum

differnoticeably

from

a pair ^{of P. laxi-} opteruz collected

some

_yearsago by Mr. ^P.

L

t

Jouy

^at Fusan, ^Corea.

They

are distinctly larger (forearm,

J\

^65,

9

^{68> instead of} (j\ 60, 9.

61),

and

theskull, inadditiontoitslarger^size(greatest length 22 ^instead, of 20.4), differs in ^its

more tumid

_rostrum, broaderanterior _nares,

and

narrower interpterygoid space.

The _European

animal

which

ⁱⁿ all probability ^isspecifically distinct from Ptcryyixtc* hixioptrr-tix should be-

known

as Pteryuixlc* ^ntn.fiunix(FulioV- ^{(ict'rit f>, M/'U/r. Jr.}