ion of the name _A[talapha]. mexicana_ Saussure which that
naturalist proposed along with a description as follows:

Long inrolled tail; femoral patagium as in the vespertilios. Teeth 4/2,
1/1, 4/5 or 5/5.

_A. mexicana_ Valida. Molar teeth 4/5. Head and throat with a tendency
toward fulvous, mouth and chin dark. Ears small and rounded, black,
exterior at the base dark and hairy, interior with the anterior margin
and an area in the middle yellow-haired. Back chestnut, above [hairs
apically] grayish, below [hairs lower down] reddish, everywhere marbled
with white. Tibiae, feet and the femoral patagium reddish marbled with
white. Venter dusky-gray, with hairs at the apex and on the breast
whitish, on the abdomen with tendency toward fulvous. White spot on
humerus. Wings black; underneath the arm and the superior half of the
wing yellow-haired. Above [on the upper side] with three whitish spots
on the base of the thumb and fifth finger situated in the angle of the
elbow.--Forearm length 53 mm. [Above is translation from the Latin
original.]

As may be readily seen by comparing specimens of _L. borealis_ and _L.
cinereus_ from Mexico (or also from any place in North America north
of Mexico), the description by Saussure applies to the hoary bat
(_Lasiurus cinereus_) and not to the red bat (_Lasiurus borealis_).

Accordingly, the name _A[talapha]. mexicana_ Saussure 1861 falls as a
synonym of _Lasiurus cinereus cinereus_ (Beauvois 1796); if the hoary
bat of the southern end of the Mexican table land should prove to be
subspecifically separable, the name _Lasiurus cinereus mexicanus_ would
be available for it.

The Mexican red bat, thus, is left without a name, and for it I propose

Lasiurus borealis ornatus new subspecies

_Type._--Skin (8492 U.S. Nat. Mus.), and corresponding skull (37578
U.S. Nat. Mus.), sex not recorded on the label; Penuela, Veracruz;
20 February 1866; obtained by F. Sumichrast.

_Range._--Approximately the southern two-fifths of Mexico; exact limits
of range unknown.

_Diagnosis._--Resembles _Lasiurus borealis teliotis_ (H. Allen) but
feet, interfemoral membrane, and under side of wings much less hairy.

_Comparisons._--From _L. b. teliotis_, which occurs to the northwest,
_L. b. ornatus_ differs in the restricted peripheral distribution of
the fur (see Miller, N. Amer. Fauna, 13:112, October 16, 1897). From
_Lasiurus borealis frantzii_ (Peters), which occurs to the southward,
_L. b. ornatus_