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Remarks. This form and also S. margarita and the mainland 

 forms cumanicus, orinoci and superciliaris are doubtless allied to S. 

 brasiliensis and 5. minensis and quite probably some, if not all, will 

 eventually be reduced to subspecific rank. 



Felis pardalis subsp. 



One specimen, a fine adult male from Orope, Zulia, Venezuela; 

 collected by N. Dearborn. This differs from typical pardalis to some 

 extent in color and quite markedly in crania) and dental characters. 

 The form which it represents is possibly undescribed but the con- 

 fused state of nomenclature caused by the large number of worse 

 than useless names given by earl\ authors to members of this group 

 makes it impossible to identify specimens without extended studies 

 and reference to material in museums in various parts of the world. 



Hormoops megalophylla intermedia Miller. 



Eighty specimens, Curacao, Dutch West Indies; collected by 

 N. Dearborn. 



Phodotes tumidirostris (Miller). 



Two specimens, Curafao, Dutch West Indies; collected by N. 

 Dearborn. 



Noctilio minor sp. nov. 



Type from Encontrados, Zulia, Venezuela. No. 18,044 Field 

 Museum of Natural History. Female adult (in alcohol). Collected 

 February 15, 1908, by N. Dearborn. 



Characters. Allied to Noctilio albiventer, but smaller throughout ; 

 foot, tibia, and forearm shorter; skull and teeth decidedly smaller; 

 braincase shorter and more nearly spherical, but with rather marked 

 depression of the parietals on each side of and near the base of the 

 well-developed sagittal crest; supraorbital crests more abruptly 

 divergent ; m l and m 2 separated by a slight space and with the com- 

 missure less obvious between the hypocone and the commissure be- 

 tween the protocone and the metacone. Ear laid forward, reaching 

 slightly beyond muzzle; forearm with wings folded extending 4-6 

 mm. beyond the muzzle; chin with various small plications, nowhere 

 smooth ; a lunate lappet below the central prominence of the lower 

 lip and from the lower side of this an undulate cutaneous ridge extend- 

 ing roughly parallel with each side of the lower lips; below this lappet 

 two additional but smaller and scarcely differentiated median promi- 



