708 PHYLLOPS. 



669. falcatum (Artibeus), Gray, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., iv, 1839, p. i. 



albomaculatum (Phyllostomd) , Gundl., Monatsb. K. Preuss. Akad. 



Wiss. Berl., 1861, p. 155. 

 FALCATE BAT. 



Type locality. Cuba. 



Geogr. Distr. Island of Cuba. 



FIG. 157. PHYLLOPS FALCATUM. 



No. 113230 U. S. Nat. Mus. Coll. 

 Enlarged 2 1 /* times. Face view enlarged 6 times. 



Genl. Char. Skull has frontal flattened; palate emarginate, the 

 sides converging and forming an angle; second upper molar barely 

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

 at tip, acutely pointed; fur woolly. 



Color. Sooty gray, lightest on under parts; small white patch 

 at anterior point of the origin of each antebrachial membrane; no 

 facial streaks; ears and membranes pale brown. 



Measurements. Length of head and body, 48.2; forearm, 41.9; 



