DESCRIPTION OF A NEW GENUS OF PHYLLOSTOME BATS. 
BY 
Harrison ALLEN, M. D. 
Mr. Frederick W. True, curator of the department of mammals, Na- 
tional Museum, has placed in my hands a skin in spirits of a small leaf- 
nose bat, believed to be from the vicinity of the Segovia River, Eastern 
Honduras. The specimen had been eviscerated and the skull removed. 
The lower lip was badly mutilated. From the characters furnished 
by the nose-leaf and the peculiar coloration of the fur, I believe the 
form to be a new genus allied to Stenoderma, and describe tt as follows: 
Ectophylla, new genus. 
Nose-leaf erect, basal part notched in middle of free margin. Nos- 
trils entire (but grooved continuous to outer margin of nose-leaf) sepa- 
rated by a small rounded nodule which apparently represents the lower 
part of the median leaf-crest, which otherwise is absent. Lateral gland- 
clumps rudimental, borne on the surface of a flat, scalloped skin-fold. 
Auricle as in Hemiderma, simple, erect, ovate; as measured from the 
crown it is shorter than the head. The single scallop begins abruptly 
at the middle of the moderately convex outer border. The external 
basal lobe convex and slightly thickened; basal ridge, or lappet, none. 
The internal basal lobe is rounded and free. Tragus almost one-halt 
the height of the auricle, moderately convex on the inner margin, irregu- 
larly convex on outer, and furnished with two coarse serrations near 
the base. Lower lip mutilated. The mentum shows signs of having 
borne a row of eight (?) marginal rounded warts, and a small median 
one placed behind them. The lip apparently not cleft. Wings as in 
subfamily. Interfemoral membrane consists of a broad hem to the 
inferior extremity and pubis. Tail absent; tip of calcar projecting. 
The wing membrane reaches a point nearly midway between the ankle 
and the base of the metatarsi. The first phalanges shorter than the 
second. The first phalanx of the third finger about one-third the 
length of the corresponding metacarpal bone. The fifth metacarpal 
bone as long as the forearm. The phalanx of the second digit 34 mil- 
limeters long, and equals about one-fourth the length of the corres- 
ponding metacarpal bone. 
Proceedings National Museum, Vol. XV—No. 913. 
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