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Sturnira lilium (E. Geoffroy). 



Phyllostoma lilium E. Geoffroy, Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, 1810, 

 15, p. 181. 



Tlie occurrence of this ba1 in Jamaica is of considerable interest. 

 I have found hut two records, namely, those given by Dobson (1878, 

 p. 540) of two skins in the British Museum obtained in Jamaica by 

 P. H. Gosse and J. Gould. On the mainland, this bat is common in 

 northern South America, and in Central America as far north as 

 Honduras and the southernmost states of Mexico. It may therefore 

 have reached Jamaica when there was still a land connection with the 

 Honduras peninsula. In Yucatan it is apparently almost unknown. 

 There is said to be a specimen in the British Museum from northern 

 Yucatan; but otherwise Colima, in southwestern Mexico, seems to 

 be its most northerly record (J. A. Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. 

 Hist., 1890, 3, p. 181). It is probably so rare to the north of latitude 

 20° that it did not reach Cuba by way of the Yucatan connection, 

 thus accounting for its apparent absence on the other Greater Antilles. 



I have found no record of this bat for the Lesser Antilles, and it is 

 therefore of special interest to note its discovery in the island of Domin- 

 ica by A. H. Verrill. The specimens referred to were among a small 

 collection of bats, now in the Yale University Museum, made by Mr. 

 Verrill in Dominica in 1906. In addition to the present species, there 

 were a number of Ptcronotus davyi, which is well known to occur in 

 this island. Through the kindness of Professor A. E. Verrill, I was 

 enabled to study the collection, and to obtain one of the specimens of 

 Sturnira for the Museum of Comparative Zoology. The presence of 

 this genus in Dominica is in line with the known occurrence in the 

 same island of representatives of the South American Ptero?iotus 

 davyi and Myotis nigricans, both of which are present in Trinidad, 

 but have not yet been recorded from the intermediate islands. 



Brachyphylla cavernarum Gray. 



Brachyphylla cavernarum Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1834, 

 p. 123. ' 



This genus is at present known from two species only, cavernarum, 

 of St. Vincent, and nana, of Cuba. The exact significance of this 

 distribution it is perhaps unsafe to conjecture until further research 

 shall have shown more convincingly that the genus does not occur 



