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aphylla, but the ear is longer and 

 narrower (18.5x11 instead of 16x12), 

 the rudimentary nose leaf quite differ- 

 ent in form (5.75x4. 5 instead of 4x6), 

 the tail is shorter, especially in its free 

 portion, and the forearm and fingers 

 are slightly shorter. These differences 

 coupled with the seeming impossibility 

 Fig. 5. — Tip of tongue (dorsal that anyone should consider animals 

 surface) of Reithronycteris so widely different in aspect as Phyl- 

 aphylla (a) and Phyllonycteris , ,. , • j t-» -,7 , • 



sezekorni (b). (About 5 times lonycteris sezekorni and Keithronycteris 



natural size). aphylla as possibly individual varia- 



tions of one and the same species, 9 make it appear more reasonable 

 to apply a new specific name to the Jamaican bat. 



9 Gundlach says (under Phyllonycteris sezekorni) : " Die Vergleichung einer 

 grosseren Anzahl von Exemplaren wird iibrigens entscheiden miissen, ob diess 

 eine selbstiindige Art ist oder ob sie mit der vorhergehenden zu vereinigen 

 sein wird." 



