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Remarks.--This species is colonial; usually it is found in large numbers in favorite roosting sites, mainly in natural caves. Four of our specimens, caught in July, are females and two are young males. One, female, no. 944, has one embryo of 40 mm. in length.

=Myotis yumanensis lutosus= Miller and Allen

Yuma Myotis; Spanish, MurciA(C)lago de Yuma

Myotis yumanensis lutosus Miller and Allen, U. S. Nat. Mus., Bull., 144:72, May 25, 1928, type from PAitzcuaro, MichoacAin.

Myotis yumanensis, Miller, N. Amer. Fauna, 13:67, October 16, 1897.

Range.--Known only from PAitzcuaro and El Molino.

Remarks.--Originally recorded by Miller (1897:67) from PAitzcuaro, the animals from central MA(C)xico were named as a new subspecies by Miller and Allen (1928:72) who record one specimen from El Molino.

=Myotis velifer velifer= (Allen)

Cave Bat; Spanish, MurciA(C)lago Vespertino

Vespertilio velifer J. A. Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., 3:177, December 10, 1890, type from Santa Cruz del Valle, Guadalajara, Jalisco.

Myotis velifer velifer, Allen and Miller, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull., 144:89, May 25, 1928.

Range.--Statewide.

Specimens examined, 17: nos. 100083-100099, from 3 mi. NW PAitzcuaro, 6,700 ft.

Remarks.--Our specimens were taken on March 12, 1943, from a crevice in the wall of an abandoned chapel where 35 or more individuals of both sexes were living. Miller (1897:59) records the species from PAitzcuaro and Miller and Allen (1928:91) record it from there and also from Lake Chapala, La Palma, AcAimbaro (now in Guanajuato) and Negrete.

=Myotis thysanodes thysanodes= Miller

Fringed-tailed Myotis; Spanish, MurciA(C)lago Colirugosa

Myotis thysanodes Miller, N. Amer. Fauna, 13:80, October 16, 1897, type from Old Fort Tejon, Kern County, California.

Range.--Known only from PAitzcuaro.

Remarks.--In the original description five specimens are recorded from PAitzcuaro and Miller and Allen (1928:127) mention the same locality of occurence.

=Myotis californicus mexicanus= (Saussure)

California Myotis; Spanish, MurciA(C)lago de California

V[espertilio]. mexicanus Saussure, Rev. et Mag. de ZoAśl., 12 (ser. 2):282, 1860, type from somewhere in the warmer part of the state of MA(C)xico.

Myotis californicus mexicanus, Miller, N. Amer. Fauna, 13:73, October 16, 1897.

Range.--Known in MichoacAin only from PAitzcuaro.

Remarks.--Specimens from PAitzcuaro are recorded by Miller and Allen (1928:160).

=Eptesicus fuscus miradorensis= (H. Allen)

Big Brown Bat; Spanish, MurciA(C)lago Fusco

S[cotophilus]. miradorensis H. Allen, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, p. 287, 1866, type from Mirador, Veracruz.

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