1902.1 NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA. 



Stenoderma luoiae sp. nov. 



Type-Mn\t female (in alcohol), No. 110,921, United States 

 National Museum. Collected on Santa Lucia Island, West Indies, 

 FebmaiT 4, 1901, by H. Sehvyn Branch. , ,, . . -,, 



C/iaracfers. -Larger than Stenoderma nlchoUsi of Donunica, its 

 nearest geographical ally, and inner upper incisors more noticeably 

 bifid. J^Iuch smaller than S. montserratense, and with a distinct 



white shoulder spot. , , , , i f ,i,^ fnr 



Color —After a year's immersion in alcohol the color of the fur 

 is a uniform clay color, that of the back, limbs and membranes 

 strongly washed with wood-brown, that of the under i^arts some- 

 what lightened by faintly paler hair-tips. A small but yery dis- 

 tinct whitish spot on shoulder at point where menibrane joins bod>. 

 Ear. and noseleaf light-brown. Membranes dark-brown through- 

 out, except that the antebrachium has a distinct V^^^J^ovdev extend- 

 ing from base of thumb halfway to shoulder. Bones of fingers 

 and distal half of forearm much lighter than membrane 



Ears, Membranes, etc. -The ears, membranes and external 

 features in general are as in a topotype of S. mchollsi 



tL^^-Ihe skull is distinctly larger than that of Stenoderma 

 nMlsi, but of essentially the same form throughout 



Teeth much more robust than those of S. mcholUi The inner 

 upper incisor is yery distinctly bifid, in this respect differnig nota- 

 Trom that of the related species. Crowns of first and second 

 mkars rather broader relatiyely to their iength than in S.n.<^^ 

 Posterior molar minute, its area scarcely more than half that of 

 middle incisor. Second lower molar with outline of crown more 

 nearly square than in S. nichollsL 



body 65 (53) ;» Ubia, 1!) (16.4); foot, 12.1, (12); foot wUhou 

 daws 12 (11 ; ioreann, 47 (44) ; thumb, IS ("•«): -^l 

 t"; 41 (36)' third anger. 110 (96); fourth finger. ,6 (H1); 

 mfingor. -1 (66); ear from meat.., 18 (18); ear f,-on, crown, 

 14 (13.6); width of ear, 14 (14). ,.,,,, ,x i ,,.i 



Crania measurements of type : Greatest length, 23 , 20.4 ; bu.al 

 length. 20 (17); basilar length, 17 (15); ^^'^^-^'^, 

 6 (5 4) ; zygomatic breadth. 15 (18.6) ; mastoid breadth. 12 (D , 

 b..adtWf palate betweenmiddl^™!^^ 



