2 Mr. J. E. Gray on some neiv Bats collected 



tips to the hairs, paler beneath. The wings large, blackish ; 

 the index-finger falcately curved, with the membrane between 

 it and the middle finger smooth, nearly transparent. Gland 

 of the penis granular. 



The form of the index -finger at once distinguishes this 

 species from all the others of the genus. 



Hab, Cuba, " Killed in my bed-room.^^ — MacLeay, 



Arctibeus Jamaicensis, Leach, Linn. Trans, xiii. Phyllo- 

 stoma jamaicense, Horsfield, Zool. Journ, vii. 238. Edge 

 of the lips crenulated, the inner edge with a series of brown 

 membranaceous processes. Nose-leaf ovate lanceolate, acu- 

 minated, with a broad convex central midrib, edge folded 

 back, and rather compressed at the tip ; cheek at the sides of 

 the nose-leaf large, convex, swollen, subtubercular ; front of 

 the lower lip triangular, with a central rather large, and two 

 smaller lateral tubercles, surrounded with a series of close 

 oblong warts. Tragus thickened at the top, crenulated exter- 

 nally, with three or four distinct notches at the outer side of 

 the base. The index-finger straight. 



Hab. Cuba. '^ Devours oranges on the trees and leaves the 

 skins almost empty ; it also comes into bed-rooms at night in 

 search of mosquitoes." — MacLeay, 



Brachyphylla cavernarum, Gray. VespertiUo cavemarum. 

 Guilding, MS. Plate L fig. 1. 



Hab. West Indies. St. Vincents, Cuba. 



I cannot observe the slightest difierence between the 

 Cuban specimen and that which I described from St. Vin- 

 cents (1837), from the collection of Mr. Guilding, except that 

 the Cuban one is smaller, and probably not an adult speci- 

 men, which view is somewhat favoured by the finger-bones 

 being rather shorter comparatively with the armbone. In 

 the Cuban specimen there are several round glands on the 

 chin, and a very distinct convex isolated gland on the side of 

 the face a little behind the angle of the mouth. 



St. Vincents. Cuban. 



Length of body and head 3 2^ 



of arm bone 2tV 2^^ 



of shin bone l-rV -fi 



