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DR. KNUD ANDERSEN ON BATS. 



[Apr. 7, 



mistake, due to their having examined the teeth not of the true type, 

 but of specimens of A . jamaicensis lituratus also collected by Spix 

 at Bahia. It has been of importance, from a purely nomenclatural 

 point of view, to have this question definitely settled ; if Wagner 

 and Peters were right, Spix's Fh. planirostre would have been a 

 synonym of A . jamaicensis lituratus, whereas the species hitherto 

 called A. planirostris would have had to stand as A.fallax Pet. 



Maximilian of Wied's Phyllostoma ohscurum, 1826. — Type from 

 " Villa Vigosa am Flusse Peruhype," i. e. Parahyba, province of 

 Rio de Janeiro. Judging from the description there can only be the 

 question whether this is A . j)lcmirostris planirostris or A . jamai- 

 censis litter attts. The number of " Backenzahne im Oberkiefer " is 



