1904.] NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA. 197 



length of calcaneum 23 (21-24) ; length of foot 12.7 (12-13.4); length 

 of tail 20.9 (17-25). 



Average of three skulls: Total length 20.6 (20.2-21); greatest zygo- 

 matic width 11.1 (11-11.5); interorbital width 4 (4-4.1); height at 

 base of second premolar 4.9 (4.8-5) ; height of brain-case 7.6 (7.2-8) ; 

 breadth of brain-case above roots of zygomata 10; width of palatal 

 constriction 1.4 (1.4-1.5); length of palate from anterior foramina 8.6 

 (8.3-9); width of palate including teeth 7.1 (7.1-7.2); greatest length 

 of mandible 15.5 (15.2-16.) 



Remarks. — This species is not liable to be confused with any of the 

 forms of the genus except its own subspecies. From both of these 

 it may be separated by the crowded second premolar, the high rostral 

 portion of the skull and the rather slender foot. 



Specimens Examined. — Eight alcohohc specimens: Lucea, Jamaica. 

 (A. M. N. H.) 



Chilonycteris parnellii boothi (Gundlach). 



1861. Chilonycteris Boothi Gundlach, Monatsber. K. Preuss. Akad. Wis- 

 sensch., Berlin, 1861, p. 154. ["In Fundador, audi in Guines."] 



1872. Chilonycteris Parnellii Peters, Monatsber, K. Preuss. Akad, Wis- 

 sensch., Berlin, 1872, p. 360. (Part.) [Cuba; Jamaica.] 



1873. Chilonycteris Boothi Gundlach, Anales Soc. Espan. Hist. Nat., I, 

 cuad. 3, p. 245. [Cuba.] 



1902. Chilonycteris boothi MiUer, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1902, p. 401. 

 1904. Chilonycteris boothi Miller, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXVII, p. 341. 

 [Baracoa, Santiago, Cuba.] i 



Type Locality. — Fundador, Matanzas Province, Cuba. Gundlach 

 states that the species was also found at Guines, but Fundador was 

 fixed as the type locality by Miller and Rehn.^^ 



Distribution. — ^The species has been recorded from Guines, Havana 

 Province; Fundador, Matanzas Province, and Baracoa, Santiago 

 Province, From these records it would appear that the species is 

 rather generally distributed through the island. Gundlach, in speaking 

 of the species, says : Observed and not rare in various caves of the 

 departments, also gathering at night in houses in the country. 



General Characters. — Similar to C. parnellii, but differing in the dis- 

 position of the lower premolars, the more depressed rostrum and the 

 more robust form. It is also very closely related to C. p. portoricensiSj 

 from which, however, it is separated by its larger size, slenderer 

 rostrum and rather depressed brain-case. 



Head. — Similar to C. parnellii, but with the ear slenderer, longer and 



with the apical portion decidedly falcate. 



Limbs. — Much as in C. parnellii, except that the foot appears to be 

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1^ Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., XXXI, p, 125. 



