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Ametrida centurio, Gray. 
One. 
Sturnira Lilium, Geoff. 
One. 
Desmodus rotundus, Geoff. 
One. 
XXVIII.—The Rutelid Genus Adorodocia. 
By GILBert J. ARROW. 
To my great regret I have to announce that subsequent 
evidence, coming, unfortunately, just too late for the correc- 
tion or recall of my paper in the ‘ Annals’ of July last, has 
shown me that the conclusions there expressed are wrong in 
certain vital respects, in consequence of which the new genus 
and species there characterized become superfluous. Mr. Fred 
Bates kindly permitted me to make a careful examination of 
the specimens in his collection, which includes all the three 
forms referred to in my paper, together with an individual 
representing a fourth form which at once showed the necessity 
for reviewing my conclusions as to the sexes. 
The British Museum contained altogether seven specimens, 
of which the type of Adorodocia strigata, Waterh., and two 
other specimens identical with it, I found by dissection to 
contain ova. Of the second form there were also three 
specimens, in which I found no ova, but the remarkable 
chitinous structure shown at c and d in the woodcut. This 
form agreed with the description of A. vittaticollis, Fairm., 
considered by both authors to be conspecific with A. strigata, 
incisors, but conspicuously larger throughout. Last upper molar trans- 
versely oyal, Second lower molar slightly larger in section than the first, 
the third one nearly half its size. 
Dimensions of the type (measured on a specimen in spirit) :— 
Forearm 41 millim. 
Head and body 57; nose-leaf 11x55; ear 15; third finger, meta- 
carpal 38 ; first phalanx 14:5, second phalanx 24; lower leg 16; calcar 3:5; 
depth of interfemoral in centre 4. 
Skull: greatest length 24; basal length 19; breadth of palate across 
molars 10°5; front of canine to back of m? 8°4. 
Hab. Pernambuco. 
Type. Male. B.M. no. 81.3.16.4. Collected and presented by the 
late W. A. Forbes. 5 
This species may be readily distinguished from V. zarhinus by its 
larger size and more prominent striping, and from V, ineatus by its minute 
incisors, 
