STERNODERMA. PHYLLOPS. 707 



brown; antebrachium with pale border from thumb half way to 

 shoulder. 



Measurements. Total length, 65; forearm, 47; thumb, 15; second 

 finger, 41; third finger, no; fourth finger, 76; fifth finger, 71; tibia, 

 19; foot, 12.6; ear from meatus, 18; from crown, 14; width, 14. Skull: 

 greatest length, 23; basal length, 20; interorbital constriction, 6; 

 zygomatic breadth, 15; mastoid breadth, 12; mandible, 13.4; max- 

 illary tooth row, 7.6; mandibular tooth row, 8. 



B. Peltorhinus. 



Nose-leaf attached in front to the tubercle on upper lip, spear- 

 shaped, oval, acute; fur fine, woolly, sparsely covering forearm; wing 

 membrane extending to claws. 



668. achradophilum (Artibeus), Gosse, Nat. Sojourn in Jamaica, 



1851, p. 271, pi. vi, fig. 4. 

 sulphureus Gosse, Nat. Sojourn in Jamaica, 1851, p. 271, pi. vi, 



fig- 5- 

 jamaicensis Gosse, Nat. Sojourn in Jamaica, 1851, p. 271, pi. vi, 



fig- 3- 



flavescens Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc., 1866, p. 117. 

 FRUIT-LOVING BAT. 



Type locality. Content, Island of Jamaica. 



Geogr. Distr. Islands of Cuba and Jamaica. 



Genl. Char. Muzzle short; front margin of horizontal nose-leaf 

 projecting in a V-shaped process and ending in a wart -like elevation; 

 posterior nose-leaf lanceolate, summit acute, central ridge on front 

 face; central wart on lower lip, one on each side, and two others 

 beneath; interfemoral membrane short; wing membrane from tarsus. 



Color. Above light reddish brown, beneath paler; white patch on 

 each shoulder. 



Measurements. Length of head and body, 55.8; forearm, 40.6; 

 thumb, 10 ; third finger, metacarpal, 40.6; fourth finger, metacarpal, 

 40.6; fifth finger, metacarpal, 41.4; tibia, 15.2; foot, 10; ear, 17.7; 

 tragus, 5.5. Skull: occipito-nasal length, 23; Hensel, 16; zygomatic 

 width, 1 5 ; interorbital constriction, 5.5; palatal length, 11.5; length 

 of upper tooth row, 6.5. 



165. Phyllops. 



Phyllops Peters, Monatsb. K. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berl., 1865, p. 



356. Type Artibeus falcatus Gray. 1 



Molars as in Artibeus; palate deeply cleft between molars; second 

 upper molar three-fourths size of the first ; nose-leaf abruptly narrowed 

 above, acute at tip. 



