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Title: A New Bat (Myotis) From Mexico

Author: E. Raymond Hall

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UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS PUBLICATIONS
MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY

Volume 14, No. 13, pp. 161-164, 1 fig.
May 21, 1962

A New Bat (Myotis) From Mexico

BY

E. RAYMOND HALL

UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
LAWRENCE
1962

UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS PUBLICATIONS, MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY

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

Volume 14, No. 13, pp. 161-164, 1 fig.
Published May 21, 1962

UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Lawrence, Kansas

PRINTED BY
JEAN M. NEIBARGER, STATE PRINTER
TOPEKA, KANSAS
1962

29-3265

A New Bat (Myotis) from Mexico

BY

E. RAYMOND HALL

A single specimen of little brown bat from the northern part of the
state of Veracruz seems to be of an heretofore unrecognized species. It
is named and described below.

=_Myotis elegans_= new species

_Holotype._--Female, adult, skin and skull, No. 88398 Museum of
Natural History, The University of Kansas; 12-1/2 mi. N. Tihuatlan,
300 ft. elevation, Veracruz, Mexico; obtained on September 24,
1961, by Percy L. Clifton, original No. 985.

_Geographic distribution._--Known only from the type locality.

_Diagnosis._--A small-footed species having a short tail and small
skull. Pelage on upper parts near (16' _l_) Prout's Brown
(capitalized color terms after Ridgway, Color Standards and Color
Nomenclature, Washington, D. C., 1912), and more golden on
underparts; ears pale brownish and flight-membranes only slightly
darker; thumb small (7.5 mm. including wrist); tragus slender but
deeply notched. Longitudinal, dorsal profile of skull relatively
straight but frontal region elevated from rostrum and lambdoidal