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Title: North American Yellow Bats, 'Dasypterus,' And a List of the Named Kinds Of the Genus Lasiurus Gray

Author: E. Raymond Hall
J. Knox Jones

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UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS PUBLICATIONS
MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY

Volume 14, No. 5, pp. 73-98, 4 figs.
December 29, 1961

North American Yellow Bats, "Dasypterus,"
And a List of the Named Kinds
Of the Genus Lasiurus Gray

By

E. RAYMOND HALL AND J. KNOX JONES, JR.

UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
LAWRENCE
1961

UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS PUBLICATIONS, MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY

Editors: E. Raymond Hall, Chairman, Henry S. Fitch, Theodore H. Eaton,
Jr.

Volume 14, No. 5, pp. 73-98, 4 figs.
Published December 29, 1961

UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Lawrence, Kansas

PRINTED BY
JEAN M. NEIBARGER, STATE PRINTER
TOPEKA, KANSAS
1961

North American Yellow Bats, "Dasypterus,"
And a List of the Named Kinds
Of the Genus Lasiurus Gray

BY

E. RAYMOND HALL AND J. KNOX JONES, JR.

INTRODUCTION

Yellow bats occur only in the New World and by most recent authors have
been referred to the genus _Dasypterus_ Peters. The red bats and the
hoary bat, all belonging to the genus _Lasiurus_ Gray, also occur only
in the New World except that the hoary bat has an endemic subspecies in
the Hawaiian Islands.

The kind of yellow bat first to be given a distinctive name was the
smaller of the two species that occur in North America. It was named
_Nycticejus ega_ in 1856 (p. 73) by Gervais on the basis of material
from the state of Amazonas, Brazil, South America, but was early
recognized as occurring also in North America (in the sense that Mexico
and Central America, including Panama, are parts of North America).
More than 40 years elapsed before subspecifi