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November 26, 1833. 

 John Hamilton, Esq., Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Specimens were exhibited of a Bat, which had recently been ob- 

 tained by the Societyfrom the collection of the late Rev. Lansdown 

 Guilding, Corr. Memb. Z. S. 



Mr. Gray, in directing the attention of the Meetlng to them, 

 remarked on them as constituting the type of a new genus, for 

 which he proposed, on account of the shortness of the nose-leaf, the 

 name of 



Brachyphylla. 



Dentes incisores ^, superiorum intermedii magni conici, approxi- 

 mati, externi minimi ; canini, -^ ; molares —^ , quorum anteri- 

 ores duo utrinąue utrinsecus spurii, superiores antici minimi. 



Rostrum truncatum; našus a facie sulco profundo sejunctu»,p>05- 

 themate lato, plano; labium inferius excisum, excisurte marginibus 

 venucosis. 



Lingtia elongata, undique verrucosa. 



Cauda brevissima. 



Patagiutn anale amphim, posticė profundė emarginatum, bi-tendi- 

 nosum. 



Genus Glossophago, GeofF., maximė affine. 



" The cutting teeth are four in each jaw, of which the two upper 

 centrai are iarge, conical and close together; the side ones very 

 smali, lovv and rudimentary; and tlie lovver ones small, equal and 

 ciosely pressed between the canines. Tlie canines are Iarge, the lower 

 ones fitting before the upper; the upper ones very Iarge, vvith a 

 deep notch on the hinder side. The grinders are five on each side 

 ofeither javv, of which three are trueand t\vo falše: the two lovver 

 falše grinders on each side are equal ; the front ones of the upper 

 javv are very small and rudimentary. 



" The head is ovate : the face short and blimt: the end of the 

 nose truncated, with a short broad flat nose-leaf, connected vvith 

 the lips in front, and surrounded by a deep groove behind, separa- 

 ting it from the ręst of the face ; the groove is edged behind by a 

 rounded callous ridge. The nostrils are ovate, ratlier Iarge, open, 

 and placed widely apart from each other, one being situated on each 

 side of the middie of the nose-leaf. The lips are smooth, without 

 any beard on the inner side of the angle of the mouth : the upper 

 one is entire ; the lovver has a deep notch in the centre, which is 

 bald, triangular, and edged vvith a series of close, short, rounded 

 warts. The tongue is elongated, and is closely and minutely 

 warty. 



" The vvingsare Iarge and broad. The thumb is long, two-jointed. 



