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may surmise that as already indicated, such changes have 

 taken place on Martinique and possibly too on St. Vincent, 

 where otherwise one might expect the genus to occur. Of its 

 status on the other Lesser Antillean islands practically nothing 

 is known. 



FALCATE-WINGED BAT 



PHYLLOPS FALCATUS (Gray) 



Arctibeus falcatus Gray, Ann. Nat. Hist., vol. 4, p. 1, 1839 ("Cuba"). 



SYNONYM: Stenoderma albomaculatum Gundlach, Monatsber. Konigl. Preuss. Akad. 



Wiss. Berlin, 1861, p. 155. 

 FIGS.: Dobson, 1878, pi. 28, figs. 3, 3a (dentition); Anthony, H. E., 1917b, pi. 34, fig. 



3 (skull). 



LESSER FALCATE-WINGED BAT 

 PHYLLOPS VETUS Anthony 



Phyllops veins Anthony, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 37, p. 337, 1917 ("Cave at 



Daiquiri, Province of Oriente, Cuba"). 

 FIGS.: Anthony, 1917b, pi. 34, figs. 4-6 (skull). 



HISPANIOLAN FALCATE-WINGED BAT 



PHYLLOPS HAITIENSIS (J. A. Allen) 



Ardops haitiensis J. A. Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 24, p. 581, Sept. 11, 



1908 (Cafta Honda, Dominican Republic). 

 FIGS.: Anthony, H. E., 1917b, pi. 34, fig. 2 (skull). 



The small fruit-eating bats of this genus much resemble 

 those of the genus Ardops of the Lesser Antilles, but so far as 

 known they are confined to Cuba and Hispaniola. Their 

 superficial resemblance to the larger Artibeus, common in the 

 same islands, may at times have caused them to be overlooked, 

 yet from the paucity of known specimens they are probably 

 actually fewer in numbers, or even, in the case of P. veins, are 

 already extinct. 



Similar in size to the members of the genus Ardops, and like 

 them with a short blunt rostrum, hairy limbs and wing-border, 

 they may be at once distinguished by the fact that the deep 

 emargination at the posterior part of the palate is continued 

 forward in a converging V-shaped outline, which extends about 

 to the level of the middle of the second molar, whereas in 

 Ardops this indentation is a narrow, parallel-sided arch. In 

 Phyllops, also, the crown of the inner upper incisor is slender, 



