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generall}^ for all the forms of the genus) for eighty years. The redis- 

 covery of Seba's specimens have shown that the name is a synonym 

 for persplcillatui/i . 



hrachyofwn {Phyllostoma) Wied, Schinz' Thierreich, I, 1821, p. 164. 

 This name, originally proposed on the same page as the preceding, 

 has been variously accredited to Wied's Beitriige zur Naturgeschichte 

 Brasiliens (1826) and to Burmeister's Thiere Brasiliens (1854). The 

 type could not ))e found by Professor Peters in 1865, and he was in 

 some doubt as to whether the name was intended to refer to this species 

 or to another. It appears to me that it was undoubtedly founded upon 

 a dark phase of the same species as hreincaiidum^ and therefore it is 

 also a synonym for H. persplcUlatum. Indeed, it is difficult to tell 

 from the lengthy description given by Wied in his Naturgeschichte just 

 what differences he thought he distinguished between the two species. 



mr-iciims ( Vampy-rus) Spix, Simiar. et Vespert. Brasil, 1823, p. 65, 

 pi. xxxvi, tigs. 2 and 6. One figure which Spix gives of his Vam- 

 pynis mriclnus appears to be a Hehviderma, while the other, which he 

 referred to the same species, is apparenth^ a GJomopliaga. Professor 

 Peters examined the type which was from Rio de Janeiro, and pronounes 

 it to be a CaroUia hreflcduda {^=IIemid('rma p(3rspicillntuin). The 

 artist figured the skull with a complete zygomatic arch, although the 

 text expressly states that the zygoma is incomplete. 



grayi {Phyllostoma) Waterhouse, Voyage of the Beagle, 1839, 

 Zoology, p. 3, pi. II. Waterhouse based his description upon specimens 

 from Pernambuco. Peters and Dobson both place the name in synon- 

 3nny with C. hrevicauda {=^11. perspicillatum). 



calcaratum {Phyllostoma) Wagner, Archiv f. Naturgesch., I, 1843, 

 p. 366. The first publication of this name has been generally accredited 

 to the transactions of the Munich Academy, V, 1847, though in this cita- 

 tion Wagner refers to the original description in the Archiv for 1843. 

 The type was from Brazil and the principal character noted is the 

 extremely long calcar. Peters reexamined the specimen and found 

 that what Wagner mistook for the calcar was in reality a portion of 

 the interfemoral membranes which had become wrapped up in a stiff 

 roll. On softening the membrane the calcar was found to be 7 mm. 

 instead of 28, as given by Wagner. 



verracata {Arctibeus) Gray, List Mam. Brit. Mus., 1843, p. 19. 

 This name was first published by Gray in the "List" without any 

 description and with the habitat given as South America. In 1844 he 

 republished the name," placing the species in the genus CaroUia and 

 stating that it difi'ers from C. Irachyotis in the larger ears and ovate, 

 triangular, acute-tipped tragus. Dobson and Peters both examined 

 the type and pronounce it to be hrevicaudum {= perspicillatum). 



a Voyage of the Sulphur, Mamm., 1844, p. 20, pi. viii, fig. 3. 



