Vol. Xlli. pp. 159 162 October 31, 1900 



PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON 



A SECOND COLLECTION OF BATS FROM THE 

 ISLAND OF CURACAO.* 



BY GERIIIT S. MILLER, Jk. 



Mr. Leon J. Guthrie, United States Weather Observer at 

 WiHemstad, Curayao, "West Indies, has recently sent to the 

 United States National Museum a second collection of bats pre- 

 served in formalin, f Three species are added to the known 

 fauna of the island, thoug-h two of those previously obtained, 

 Mi/otis neso2whis and Leptonycteris ciirasow, are not represented. 

 The number of bats recorded from Cura9ao is thus raised to 

 six, all of which are so far as known peculiar to the island. 



Glossophaga elongata Miller. 



Twenty-seven specimens, taken from caves and rock tissues in differ- 

 ent parts of the island, but chiefly from a large cave at Hatto, a country 

 estate about thirty miles from WiHemstad. Among the fifty-six in- 

 dividuals of this species examined four have the incisors noticeably de- 

 fective, while in only one of these are the teeth absent. This condition 

 is in marked contrast with that recently observed by Dr. J. A. Allen in 

 a series of thirty-four specimens of the closely allied Glossophaga lo)igi- 



*Published here by permission of the Secretary of the Smithsonian 

 Institution. 



•{•For account of the first collection, see Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 

 xiii, pp. 123-127, April 6, 1900. 



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