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A New Name for the Mexican Red Bat

By

E. RAYMOND HALL

University of Kansas Publications
Museum of Natural History
Volume 5, No. 14, pp. 223-226
December 15, 1951

University of Kansas
LAWRENCE
1951

UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS PUBLICATIONS, MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY

Editors: E. Raymond Hall, Chairman, A. Byron Leonard,
Edward H. Taylor, Robert W. Wilson

Volume 5, No. 14, pp. 223-226
December 15, 1951

UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Lawrence, Kansas

PRINTED BY
FERD VOILAND, JR., STATE PRINTER
TOPEKA, KANSAS

1951

24-1360

A New Name for the Mexican Red Bat

By

E. RAYMOND HALL

When Gerrit S. Miller, Jr., published his "Revision of the North American
Bats of the Family Vespertilionidae" (N. Amer. Fauna, 13:1-140, 3 pls.,
39 figs. in text, October 16, 1897), the red bat, _Lasiurus borealis_,
was known from the southern half of Mexico but he did not know that the
hoary bat, _Lasiurus cinereus_, also occurred there. Therefore, the
name _A[talapha]. mexicana_ Saussure (Revue et magasin de zoologie, 13
(ser. 2): 97, March, 1861) that clearly pertained to a lasiurine bat,
almost certainly from southern Mexico, was applied by Miller (_op.
cit._: 111) to the red bat as a subspecific name. Subsequently, the
hoary bat, _Lasiurus cinereus cinereus_ (Beauvois 1796), was shown to
occur in southern Mexico. For example, an adult male _L. c. cinereus_
was obtained on May 6, 1945, by W. H. Burt from the Barranca Seca in
the State of Michoacan (see Hall and Villa, Univ. Kansas Publ., Mus.
Nat. Hist., 1:445, December 27, 1949). Because two, instead of only
one, species of _Lasiurus_ are now known to occur in the general part
of Mexico visited by Saussure, it has seemed desirable to re-examine
the applicat