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Title: Taxonomic Notes on Mexican Bats of the Genus Rhogeessa

Author: E. Raymond Hall

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Taxonomic Notes on Mexican Bats of the
Genus Rhogeessa

BY

E. RAYMOND HALL

University of Kansas Publications
Museum of Natural History

Volume 5, No. 15, pp. 227-232
April 10, 1952

University of Kansas
LAWRENCE
1952

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. 15, pp. 227-232
April 10, 1952

UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Lawrence, Kansas

PRINTED BY
FERD VOILAND, JR., STATE PRINTER
TOPEKA, KANSAS
1952

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TAXONOMIC NOTES ON MEXICAN BATS OF THE GENUS RHOGEESSA

BY

E. RAYMOND HALL

Five skins with skulls of _Rhogeessa_, collected by J. R. Alcorn in the
states of Sonora and Nayarit of western Mexico, were recently received
at the Museum of Natural History of the University of Kansas. Two other
specimens of the same genus, collected by Walter W. Dalquest in the
state of Veracruz of eastern Mexico, also are in the Museum of Natural
History. With the aim of applying names to these bats they were compared
with materials in the United States National Museum (including the
Biological Surveys collection) where there are approximately the same
number of Mexican specimens of _Rhogeessa_ as are in the Museum of
Natural History.

The three kinds of _Rhogeessa_ named from Mexico are as follows: _R.
parvula_ from the Tres Marias Islands off the west coast of Nayarit; _R.
tumida_ from Mirador, Veracruz, on the eastern slope of the Republic;
and _R. gracilis_ from Piaxtla, Puebla, on the southern end of the
Mexican Plateau.

Of _Rhogeessa gracilis_ Miller (N. Amer. Fauna, 13:126, October 16,
1897) only