PHYLLOSTOMA. 



HEMIDERMA. 



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FIG. CXIV. PHYLLOSTOMA HASTATUM. 



No. 4871 Acad. Nat. Sci. Coll. 



Geogr. Distr. Panama, Central America, to Brazil. 



Genl. Char. Ears shorter than the head, obtuse; inner margin of 

 ear conch convex; outer half of outer margin emarginate; tragus 

 longer than wide; nose-leaf surrounded by glandular elevations; 

 horizontal leaf circular, nostrils in the center, between which rises the 

 posterior leaf which is ovate, acuminate, with a longitudinal ridge; 

 lower lip with a wide V-shaped groove margined by nine warts. 



Color. Above dark grayish or reddish brown; beneath paler. 



Measurements. Total length, 116.8; tail, 17.7; forearm, 81.2; 

 thumb, 16; third finger, metacarpal, 72.3; fourth finger, metacarpal, 

 68.5; fifth finger, metacarpal, 68.5; tibia, 27.9; foot, 19; tragus, 11.4; 

 ear, 27.9. Skull: occipito-nasal length, 37.5; Hensel, 28; zygomatic 

 width, 21 ; interorbital constriction, 7; height of braincase at audital 

 meatus, 14; palatal length, 15; width between bullae, 7; length of 

 upper molar series, alveolar border, 15; length of mandible, angle to 

 symphysis, 26; length of lower molar series, 14. 



Minion bennetti, sometimes included in the North American fauna, 

 does not appear to be recorded north of the Isthmus of Panama. 



149. Hemiderma. 



T 2-2. plj^l. p. M 3-3 

 i "2-2' U 'i=I' ^'2-2' M V_, 3 2 ' 



Hemiderma Gerv. Expe"d. Comte Castlenau Amer. Sud. Mamm., Zool., 



1855, p. 43. Type Phyllostoma brevicaudum Wied. 

 Carollia Gray, Mag. Zool. & Bot., n, 1838, p. 488. (nee Can- 

 traine. Mollusca, 1837.) 



