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6 ALLEN — CHILONYCTERIS TORREI 
be interesting to discover if both species have mainland representa- 
tives. <A series from Jamaica, presented by Dr. J. A. Cushman, is 
unquestionably the subspecies C. macleayii grisea of Gosse, and 
agrees perfectly in the general characters of ear notches and nose- 
leaf with macleayii. Rehn, in recognizing this subspecies in his 
review (1904), describes it well, and Dobson’s figure of the type 
specimen leaves no room for doubt. 
In his key to the species of the genus, Rehn (1904) groups with 
‘macleayii’ ( = torrei, part) the subspecies fuliginosa Gray, from 
Haiti, and inflata Rehn, from Porto Rico, because the “cutaneous 
ridge surmounting the superior margin of the nostrils” is “without 
a deep median emargination”’ —a fact which seems to fix the re- 
lationship of Rehn’s specimens with the small species torrez. It is 
not so clear that Gray’s specimen was one of this group, however. 
His all too brief description (Proc. Zoél. Soc. London, 1843, p. 20) 
gives little that is diagnostic. The forearm measurement he says 
is 1 inch, 7 lines, (= 40 mm.), while Rehn gives 37.7 mm. It is 
not impossible that Gray may have had a representative of the 
macleayit group, and Rehn a form of the smaller torret. In that 
case torre? would stand as a subspecies of C. inflata, or if Rehn’s 
assumption is correct, both would be forms of fuliginosa. Until 
a final revision of the West Indian species can be made, however, 
forrei May stand as an insular species. Rehn has pointed out the 
characters separating fuliginosa and inflata trom the last, which he 
called macleayii. The “short and bullate rostrum” and “rather 
expanded zygomata”’ of znflata are distinctive, while fuliginosa 
(of Rehn), with its short calcanea, is the smallest of the group. 
From the resemblance in size and in the general form of the nose 
pad and cutaneous ridge on the rostrum, it seems not unlikely that 
C. parnellit is the Antillean representative of C. rubiginosa mexi- 
cana of the mainland of Mexico (Oaxaca and Vera Cruz, southward). 
The continental relatives of the two other species (macleayw and 
torre’) are yet to be determined, but, to judge from Rehn’s careful 
description, C. psilotis Dobson is very similar to torre in the form 
of the nose pad and in the shape of the ear, with its four prominent 
denticles on the internal margin. It is, however, a somewhat 
larger bat. Dobson’s original specimen was without record of 
