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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. 
23. HEMIDERMA BREVICAUDUM (Wied). 
.SHORT-TAILED HEMIDERMA. 
1878. CnroUia hrevimuda Dobson, Cat. Chiropt. Brit. Mus., p. 493. 
1897. Ilemidernia bremcaudiun Allen and Chapman, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., IX, 
p. 15. 
1900. Ilemiderma hrerieauda J. A. Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., XIII, p. 90. 
Two males wei'e socured at San Julian. The tir.st was caught hi a 
net as it darted out from under an overhanging rock where it was in 
company with several others of the same species, and with a number 
of the common Glosmpliaqa. The second was shot a few days later 
in a small cave where it hung among a cluster of the Glo.sxopjKigas. 
M('(i><mrriinils. 
Number. 
Sex. 
Length. 
Tail. 
14 
11 
Forearm. 
Longest 
finger. 
Tibia. 
Foot. 
WR 1609 
WR 1C53 
Male — 
....do... 
77 
73 
44 
43 
101 
95 
19 
18 
13 
13 
24. PHYLLOSTOMA HASTATUM (Pallas). 
SPEAR-NOSED BAT. 
1878. Pliyllo.ttoma hastatum Dobson, Cat. Chiropt. Brit. Mus., p. 484. 
1897. I'lij/llostniiKi hdMahuu. Allen and Chapman, Bull. Amer. Mu«. Nat. Hist., IX, 
p. 15. 
1900. rhy/Iodonia hastatmn J. A. Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., XIII, p. 90. 
Kepresented b}^ 20 specimens. Most of these bats were purchased 
from a native boy who found them in a hollow tree at Macuto. A 
bunch of smoking palm leaves was applied to the opening in the tree 
and as the bats Hew out they were struck down with sticks or caught 
in a butterfl}" net. One specimen was struck down with a cane one 
evening in the city of La Guaira, and on August 3 one was shot at 
San Julian as it hung from a branch in the edge of the forest. Some 
individuals of this species were seen roosting in an unused house at 
Macuto. 
Like the 2Io1ossi this bat appears in two color phases, a dark one, 
between l)lack and clove brown, which is characteristic of all the young, 
and a red phase, between tawny and chestnut. No. 1020, Robinson 
collection, presents a mottled appearance due to an admixture of the 
two phases. 
This is the largest species of l)at taken, some specimens exceeding 
2 feet in expanse. 
