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PROCEEDINGS 
OF THE 
NEW ENGLAND ZOOLOGICAL CLUB 
A THIRD SPECIES OF CHILONYCTERIS FROM CUBA. 
BY GLOVER MORRILL ALLEN. 
In the Greater Antilles two species of bats of the genus Chilonyc- 
teris are well known to occur: a larger (C. parnelliz), and a much 
smaller (C. macleayii). The typical form of the latter is from 
Cuba, and slightly differentiated races are currently recognized 
in Jamaica, in Haiti and San Domingo, and in Porto Rico. Of the 
larger species, the type is from Jamaica, and a local form is de- 
scribed from Cuba, and another from Porto Rico. As yet the larger 
species is unrecorded from Haiti and San Domingo, though its 
presence there can hardly be doubted. 
In 1900, Messrs. William Palmer and J. H. Riley collected a 
large series of Chilonycteris from two localities in Cuba: Guanajay 
and Baracoa. Four of these proved to be the Cuban representative 
of C. parnellii (C. p. boothi), and the others were all referred by 
Mr. G. S. Miller, Jr.,! to C. macleayii. Nevertheless he discovered 
that these again were readily separated into two series: one repre- 
senting a larger, the other a smaller form, “the differences between 
1 Miller, G.S, Jr., Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1904, vol. 27, p. 342. 
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