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Note on Chiroderma villosa, Peters, with the description of a new 
species of the genus; by OLDFIELD THOMAS. — British Museum Mo 
tura] History). 
Among a large collection of bats sent by Herr A. Starke from 
St. Esteban, Venezuela, to the Museo Civico Genoa, my friend 
the Marquis G. Doria discovered a specimen which appeared to 
represent a new species of Chiroderma allied to Ch. villosum, 
Peters (1). On a further examination however it turns out that 
this Venezuelan specimen is the true Ch. villosum, and that the 
Minas Geraes example described in the British Museum Cata- 
logue (2) is the one which must be considered as new. I propose 
to name it Ch. doriae in honour of the Marquis G. Doria, my 
colleague in the first examination of the question in Genoa, and 
a naturalist whose intimate knowledge and magnificent collection 
of Chiroptera are always at the service of others workers in the 
same field. 
Different as are the skulls of Ch. vellosum and Ch. doriae 
when laid side by side Mr. Dobson is fuily to be excused for 
refering the latter to the former, for there is hardly one word 
in Peters’s long description (apart from the discrepancy in 
size) which is incompatible with Ch. doriae, and I should 
not. have hesitated for one moment in referring, as Mr. Dobson 
did, the Minas Geraes specimen to Ch. villosum had 1 only 
had the materials that he had to form a judgment upon. 
Fortunately however the Venezuelan specimen came to the 
only place out of Berlin where there is a set of Peters's un- 
published plates, namely to Genoa, where a careful comparison, 
-@) M. B. Ak. Berl. 1860, p. 747. 
@) Cat. Chir. B. M. p. 534, pl. XXIX, fig. 2 (dentition) (1878). _ 
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