EXPLANATION AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Hall and Jones are jointly responsible for the accounts of the two species of yellow bats, but Hall alone assumes responsibility for the other parts of the paper. Thanks are extended to the National Science Foundation for financial support (Grant No. 56 G 103) of the study here reported on. We are grateful also to the following persons for the loan of specimens in their care: S. B. Benson, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California (MVZ); W. F. Blair, Department of Zoology, University of Texas (Univ. Texas); W. B. Davis, Dept. Wildlife Management, Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas (TAMC or Texas A & M); D. H. Johnson, C. O. Handley, Jr., and W. H. Setzer, U.S. National Museum (USNM); Barbara Lawrence, Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College (MCZ); J. N. Layne, Department of Biology, University of Florida (UF); G. H. Lowery, Jr., Museum of Natural History, Louisiana State University (LSU); P. J. H. van Bree, Department of Mammals, Zoölogisch Museum, Amsterdam (AZM); and R. G. Van Gelder, American Museum of Natural History (AMNH). Thanks are extended also to E. T. Hooper and W. H. Burt, Mus. Zoology, University of Michigan (Univ. Mich.), to Philip Hershkovitz, Chicago Natural History Museum (Chicago Mus.), and to Peter Crowcroft, British Museum, Natural History, for permission to examine specimens there. Mr. Gilberto Silva Taboada arranged the loan of specimens from the Poey Museum, University of Havana and from the Ramsdem Museum, University of Oriente, both in Cuba. Mr. Silva Taboada and Dr. Carlos G. Aguayo of the Poey Museum graciously arranged an exchange of specimens whereby the holotype of L. i. insularis became the property of the Museum of Natural History, University of Kansas. Specimens in the last mentioned institution are identified with the symbol KU.
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