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in 1843. The development of membrane on the 

 face of this species, especially in the involved and 

 foliated expansions of the lower lip, exceeds any 

 thing of the kind that I am acquainted w^ith, and 

 forms a very singular spectacle. The colour of the 

 fur is not mentioned in the published descriptions ; 

 it is of a delicate light rufous hue ; and its texture is 

 particularly fine, soft, and silky. 



In a letter dated February 27th, 1847, Mr. Hill 

 mentions a Bat apparently of a vs^ell-marked, but new 

 species ; certainly very dissimilar to any that occurred 

 to me. He thus writes : — " Among the specimens 

 of Bats that you carried home, did you observe 

 any with the membrane forming the wing in part 

 transparent and in part opaque ? I had a Bat given 

 me a day or two ago, which I took to be a Mo- 

 nophyllus ; — the ears being rounded and the nose- 

 leaf sharp ; but the membranes of whose wings were 

 not brown, as is said of the Monophyllus assigned to 

 Jamaica. (Pen. Cycl. ; art. Cheiroptera.) Between 

 the outer phalanges, answering to the first and second 

 finger, the wings were of a transparent dirty white ; 

 and between the remaining membranes of the fingers 

 and body of an opaque black. The Bat when flying 

 looked like some birds with white-marked quills and 

 secondaries. This specimen, I regret to say, escaped 

 from me when I attempted to get him out of the 

 handkerchief in which I had wrapped him ; but I 

 shall endeavour to recover a similar specimen from 

 the place whence this one was procured." 



My friend, however, had afterwards reason to think 



