VOL. XIII, PP. 159-162 OCTOBER 31, 1900 



PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON 



A SECOND COLLECTION OF BATS FROM THE 

 ISLAND OF CURAQAO.* 



BY GERRIT S. MILLER, JR. 



Mr. Leon J. Guthrie, United States Weather Observer at 

 Willemstad, Curasao, West Indies, has recently sent to the 

 United States National Museum a second collection of bats pre 

 served in formalin, f Three species are added to the known 

 fauna of the island, though two of those previously obtained, 

 Myotis nesopolus and Leptonycteris curasoce, are not represented. 

 The number of bats recorded from Curacao is thus raised to 

 "six, all of which are so far as known peculiar to the island. 



Glossophaga elongata Miller. 



Twenty-seven specimens, taken from caves and rock fissues in differ 

 ent parts of the island, but chiefly from a large cave at Hatto, a country 

 estate about thirty miles from Willemstad. Among the fifty-six in 

 dividuals of this species examined four have the incisors noticeably de 

 fective, while in only one of these are the teeth absent. This condition 

 is in marked contrast with that recently observed by Dr. J. A. Allen in 

 a series of thirty-four specimens of the closely allied Glossophaga longi- 



*Published here by permission of the Secretary of the Smithsonian 

 Institution. 



fFor account of the first cqllection, see ProQ. Biol. Soc. Washington, 

 xiii, pp. 123-127, April 6, 1900. 



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