196 nEroRT— 1880. 



Mr. Edward Newton, wlio shot several for me, I was able to examine 

 them in the recent state, and found that in all the fur was tinged with 

 reddish-yellow, a colour never observed by me in dried skins. 



Mormops blaiiivillei, Leach. 



This remarkable species also occurs in the environs of Kingston, and 

 a specimen with exceedingly brilliantly coloured fur of a golden chestnut 

 hue was shot by Mr. Newton. 



LoncliorJdna atirita, Tomes. 



The British Museum has lately received a specimen of this extraor- 

 dinary species from New Granada, collected by Mr. Fry. Hitherto the 

 species was represented by a single specimen, the type in the collection of 

 the museum of the Army Medical Department, of which the locality was 

 uncertain, but from collateral evidence, believed by me to be Trinidad, a 

 supposition now rendered extremely probable. This second specimen 

 differs in no important respect from the type. 



Schizostoma megalotis. Gray. 

 To the localities of this species add Popayan, New Granada. 



Lo7ichoglossa wledii, Ptrs. 



In an apparently adult male specimen from Popayan, I found the 

 zygomatic arches cartilaginous. The following are the measurements : — ■ 

 Length : head and body 2"-5 inches, head 1"-1, tail 0"'15, ear 0"'6, fore- 

 arm l"-6, thumb 0"-35, third finger (metacarp. l"-5, 1st ph. 0"-5, 2nd ph. 

 0"-8, 3rd ph. 0-5), fourth finger (metacarp, l"-45, 1st ph. 0"-4, 2nd ph. 

 0"-55), fifth finger (metacarp. l"-25, 1st ph. 0"-35, 2nd ph. 0"57), tibia 

 0"-55, foot 0"-38. 



Choironyderis minor, Ptrs. 



To the localities of this species add Guatemala (Godman). 



Artlbeus hilohaius, Ptrs. 

 Add Sai-ayacu, Ecuador, as a locality (0. Thomas). 



Artlbeus fzrspicillatus, L. 



This appears to be by far the commonest species of bat in Jamaica. 

 I found it abundant in every cave visited by me, inhabiting the honey- 

 comb-like cells in the white limestone. The floor of these caves is covered 

 to the depth of many feet with their dung, which forms a soft black mass, 

 in which near the entrances a few sickly plants of the bread-imt were 

 always found vegetating, having sprang up from the rejected kernels of 

 that fi-uil, which appears to form the greater part of their food. At 

 Kind's House, near Kingston, Mr. Newton pointed out to me on the floor 

 of the bath-room the remains of these fruits, which the bats carried in at 

 night-time, to feed upon at leisure, while they hung themselves from the 

 ratters. At the same place, about midday, we forced an individual to 

 quit his home in a hollow mango tree, but he flew only as far as the next 

 tree, where he was scon secured. In him the fur was strongly tinged 



