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animal, but a glance at a figure of another species of the same 

 genus, R. macrojihylla, Geoff., Plates of the "Description tie 

 I'Egypte," pi. i, fig. 1 (erroneously entitled TapJiozous Jihi), 

 will at once show the wide differences existing between Ehino- 

 povia and Nijctinomua. I have discarded Geofifroy's name, there- 

 fore, thinking it very probable that it has had an erroneous locality 

 thrust upon it.* It is somewhat singular that Major Leconte 

 should have adopted this name at the sacrifice of his own — Nycti- 

 cea cynocephala — upon the bare supposition that the specific 

 name, carolinensis, might lead to the conclusion that Rhinopoma 

 had been found in North America. As far as I have been en- 

 abled to observe, there are no -ieaf-nosed bats whatever inhabiting 

 the Atlantic slope of the United States. 



The species 31. cynocep)halus and fuliginosus, of Mr. Cooper, 

 evidently refer to the same animal ; the minute differences ob- 

 served in the ears are due to the circumstance that Mr. Cooper's 

 descriptions were taken from dried specimens. 



There is no longer much doubt about the extensive distrilni- 

 tion of this species. Mr. Tomes° has examined specimens from 

 different South American localities, and he affirms that they are 

 identical with those obtained from South Carolina. I have also 

 examined a specimen from Hayti, and another from Buenos Ayres, 

 both of which belong to the Mus. Comp. Zoology, Cambridge, and 

 theyappear to be precisely similar to the more northern individuals. 



It niay^ be proper to state- that Wagner considers the llolossus 

 nasiitus of Spix to be different from Nyciinomus hrasiliensis of 

 Geoffrey (=Z). nasutus, Temm.), and gives the name of D. naso 

 to the latter species. Burmeister also applies the latter name to 

 a species found about Buenos Ayres (Reise durch die La Plata 

 Staaten, II, ISGl, 392) and in Chile. 



' " This (_N. vasutt(s) has been supposed by Major Leconte and others to 

 be the R. carolinensis of M. Geoffrey ; but having examined the types of 

 this species in the Paris Museum, I am enabled to state that this is not 

 the case. The R. carolinensis is a small Molossiis from West Africa and 

 Bourbon (J/, acetabulosus = M. natale7isis)." — Tomes, Pr. Zool. Soc. 1861, 

 p. 68. 



2 " I have received specimens from many localities in South America 

 and have compared them with others from Central America, and with the 

 types of N. bmsiliensis in the Paris Museum ; and again with specimens 

 of N.fnligiiiofiiis from Charleston, S. C, whence they had been sent by Dr. 

 Bachman, and I find them to be all one species.'' — Tomes, loc. cit. 



