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this species on the basis of a magnificent series collected by Palmer 

 at Guanajay, El Guama, and Baracoa, Cuba. Great numbers were 

 taken in a large cave at the first -named locality. Gundlach records 

 it from San Cristobal and Matanzas. The absence of calcar, and the 

 reduced condition of the interfemoral membrane and of the molar 

 cusps have led to the separation of the species from the bats formerly 

 classed with it, as the representative of a monotypic genus confined 

 to Cuba. 



Miller (1902, p. 410) notes that the Cuban barn owl occasionally 

 preys on this bat, as shown by the presence of skulls in owl pellets; 

 and Palmer (Miller, 1904, p. 345) was assured by the natives that the 

 Cuban boa at times captures them as they emerge in numbers from 

 their cave. 



Reithronycteris aphylla Miller. 



Reithronycteris aphylla Miller, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 

 1898, p. 334. 



This remarkable species is still known from the type specimen only, 

 an adult male taken in Jamaica and preserved in the museum of the 

 Institute of Jamaica. The muzzle terminates in a "disc-shaped 

 rudimentary nose leaf like that of Brachyphylla cave-rnarum." The 

 teeth are said to resemble closely those of Phyllonycteris poeyi of Cuba, 

 now considered the sole member of its genus ; this species has likewise 

 a rudimentary nose leaf, "the erect portion represented by a mere 

 bluntly angular projection" (Miller, 1907, p. 173). The close rela- 

 tionship of the three genera Phyllonycteris, Reithronycteris, and 

 Erophylla is evident; and they are united by Miller in a distinct 

 subfamily, Phyllonycterinae, confined, so far as known, to the Greater 

 Antilles. 



Erophylla sezekorni (Gundlach). 



Phyllonycteris sezekorni Gundlach, Monatsb. k. preuss. Akad. Wiss. 

 Berlin, (1860) 1861, p. 818. 



So far as known, this species seems confined to Cuba, whence it 

 was described by Gundlach. Peters, however, included Jamaica 

 in its range (Monatsb. k. preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1868, p. 364). 



Erophylla santa-cristobalensis (Elliot). 



Phyllonycteris santa-cristobalensis Elliot, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washing- 

 ton, 1905, 18, p. 236. 



