BESCEIPTIOI^ OF A NEW SPECIES OF BAT OF THE GENUS 



GLOSSOPHAGA. 



Bv Harrison Allen, M. D. 



It is a remarkable circumstance tliat the i;eiius GJossophagn, while 

 the most common of any of the forms embraced in the iiroup of (llos- 

 sophaga^, and has been collected from the widest ranj^e of any of i':s 

 race, should have presented degrees of variations so low as never to 

 have -permitted the recognition of more than a single species. The 

 complicated synonymy successfully uuraveled by Peters, it is true, 

 contains a number of names of species, but these were proposed through 

 misapprehension of assumed generic values and bear no relation to ques- 

 tions of specific distinction. 



A careful study of two specimens (Nos. 1)522 and 1)523) belonging to 

 the I'nited States National Museum has convinced me of the necessity 

 of recognizing two species of Glossophaya — namely, (ilossopJiaga soririna 

 and the one I now describe. 



GLOSSOPHAGA VILLOSA, new species. 



Auricle entire on outer border or slightly euuirginate. Internal 

 basal lobe bound down to head without trace of ridge. Excepting in 

 length of head and trunk everywhere smaller than G. soricina. The 

 ascending process of the zygoma twice the size of the same part in 

 that species. Wing membrane from distal fourth of tibia. The ter- 

 minal cartilage of the fourth digit terete. 



The auricle is without ridge at base of the internal basal lobe, which 

 is scarcely defined and closely bound down to head; outer margin 

 almost entire; external basal lobe and nodule inconspicuous. Tragus 

 with trace of serration on outer margin, basal lobe large, quadrate. 



The nose leaf hairy, without midrib at internarial pedicle, project- 

 ing scarcely at all above the simple gland mass of the upper lip, which 

 it almost entirely occupies. Thumb one-fcnirth the length of the fore- 

 arm—namely, nine to thirty-two. The tail had evidently occupied a 

 position similar to that seen in 0. .soricina. It had been removed in 

 [•leparing the skin. 



I'rocifilinus (il)lii- riiited States National Muscuiii. Vol. XV III— No. 1100. 



