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Artibeus carpolegus Gosse, Naturalist's Sojourn in Jamaica, 1851, 

 p. 271, pi. 6, fig. 5. Jamaica. 



Dcrmanura cm Cope, Amer. Nat., 1889, 23, p. 130. St. Martin's. 



Artibeus coryi Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., 1890, 3, p. 173. 

 St. Andrew's. 



Artibeus insularis Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., 1904, 20, 

 p. 231. St. Kitt's. 



Dr. Knud Andersen (1908), in the preparation of his recent mono- 

 graph of this genus, has examined a very large series of this species 

 from various points in Central America and the West Indies, and is 

 unable to find recognizable differences between those from the main- 

 land and those from many of the Antillean Islands. Specimens 

 indistinguishable from typical jamaicensis are found in Panama, 

 Nicaragua, Guatemala, Campeche, and southern Mexico. In the 

 synonymy of this race, Andersen puts several nominal species described 

 from the different islands. He has examined specimens from St. 

 Andrew's, Old Providence Island, Jamaica, San Domingo, Porto Rico, 

 St. Martin's, St. Kitt's. To this race should also probably be referred 

 the specimens recorded by Dr. J. A. Allen (1890, p. 170) from the 

 small islands Anegada, Virgin Gorda, Anguilla, and Antigua; and, 

 according to Andersen, those from San Domingo referred to A. j. 

 parvipes by the same writer (Allen, 1908, p. 581). It is interesting 

 that no specimens are known from the Bahamas, where the genus 

 seems absent. 



Artibeus jamaicensis parvipes Rehn. 



Artibeus parvipes Rehn, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1902, 

 p. 639. 



This is the Cuban representative of A. jamaicensis, and the smallest 

 of the group. It is, however, only very slightly smaller than the 

 Jamaican bat. Its supposed occurrence at Key West rests on no 

 satisfactory basis, and should be disregarded until better evidence 

 is forthcoming. According to the studies of Dr. Knud Andersen, 

 the Cuban bat is rather more similar in cranial characters to A. j. 

 yucatanicus of the neighboring peninsula of Yucatan than to typical 

 A. j. jamaicensis, although externally all three are similar. This fact, 

 however, is considered to indicate that parvipes reached Cuba by way 

 of the land tongue now represented by the Yucatan peninsula, a 

 conclusion no doubt well justified. 



Palmer found this a common species in eastern Cuba, and obtained 

 it in the Isle of Pines as well. 



