_Specimens examined_ (43).--2 mi. N, 5 mi. W Ludlow, 4; NW 1/4 sec. 15,
R. 5 E, T. 22 N, 12; 10 mi. S, 5 mi. W Reva, 27.
The long-legged myotis is one of the commonest bats of the wooded
buttes, accounting for almost half of all chiropterans taken in these
areas. Most of our specimens were shot as they foraged among trees and
over water in the evening; a few were captured in mist nets.
Uteri of eight females obtained in the period May 23 to 31 were
enlarged; two females collected on June 29 carried single embryos that
measured 20 and 22. A lactating female was taken on August 3, but three
other adult females taken early in the same month evidenced no
reproductive activity. Testes measured 2 to 4 in three May-taken males
and 4 in each of two from June.
Two males obtained June 16 and 23 were molting as evidenced by new hairs
under the old pelage over much of the body.
_Myotis volans_ that we examined for ectoparasites harbored chiggers,
_Leptotrombidium myotis_ (Ewing), and fleas, _Myodopsylla gentilis_
Jordan and Rothschild.
~Lasionycteris noctivagans~ (LeConte, 1831)