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26. LOPHOSTOMA VENEZUEL/E, new species. 
VENEZUELAN LOPHOSTOMA. 
Type.— Adu\t female preserved in alcohol. No. 102919, U.vS.N.M. 
From Macuto, Venezuela. 
Charaeters. — Like LopluMotiut hrazUlenRe in size, but resembling 
L. (onhlyotis in the possession of the low band across the forehead 
between the ears and the narrow interort)ital constriction of the skull. 
It apparently bears the same relation to L. amhlyotis that L. hraziliense 
bears to L. Indens. 
Color. — Type; isabella color throughout, but much lighter on the 
under parts than above. The two males are dark drab, but nnich 
lighter on the under parts. One of them, No. 102918, has a few irreg- 
ular patches of wood brown about the shoulder and top of the head. 
The hairs in all the specimens are nearly white at the bases. The fur 
is about 8 mm. long on the back. Above it extends over the humerus 
and halfway up the forearm and about halfway down the femur. Below 
it has the same extension, but is scantier. 
Membranes. — Entirely naked except for a few short, dark hairs in 
the angle of the elbow above, and a few long, light scanty ones about 
the elbow joint beneath. Uropatagium large, coming from entire leg 
and the long calcar. Membranes lilackish brown. 
Ears. — Large and wide, united by a low band across forehead. 
When laid forward they extend 5 mm. beyond tip of muzzle. The outer 
half is marked with about 1.5 striations. Tragus long, pointed at the 
apex, two-toothed about the middle, when laid forward reaching to 
the middle of the eye. Antitragus a small rounded lobe. 
Chin with 10 rounded warts arranged in a semicircle, inside of which 
are 4 secondary warts. Nose leaf cordate-lanceolate, a row of 2 or 3 
small warts arranged vertically in the median line between the nos- 
trils. The tail does not project from the interfemoral meml)rane. 
Cranial measurementx of the type. — Greatest length, 21.2; Ixasal 
length, 17.4; basilar length, 10; median palatal length, 9; breadth of 
palate at first premolar, 2.4; at second molar, 3.6; zygomatic In'eadth, 
10.4; mastoid breadth, 9.8; greatest breadth of brain case, 8.4; least 
interorbital breadth, 3.2; breadth of rostrum at premolars, 4.4; depth 
of cranium from saggital ridge to ])asi-sphenoid, 8.4; greatest length 
of Diandible, 14; depth of mandible from coronoid process, 6; length 
of upper tooth row from front of canine, 7.4; greatest width between 
upper tooth rows from external surfaces of teeth, 6.8; length of lower 
tooth row from front of canine, 8.4. 
