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latter is larger than A. j. parvipes. The forearm and metacarpals 

 average 2*5 to 3 mm. longer than in A . j . jamaiceiisis ; thus, also 

 in external dimensions it bears much the same relation to A. j. 

 jamaicensis and yucatanicibs , as these latter to A. j. parvipes. 

 For further details see the tables of measurements pp. 271 and 

 284. 



Geographically there is, in the series of jamaicensis and cequa- 

 torialis available, a break between the former and the latter. I 

 have had no specimen of jamaicensis from any place south of 

 Panama (Colon), and none of cequatorialis north of S. Colombia 

 (Cali) ; but there cannot be much doubt that further investiga- 

 tions will fill up this gap, so that there, also geographically, will 

 prove to be a perfect transition between A .j. jamaicensis and its 

 southern representative, A . j. cequatorialis. 



Specimens examined. — 9 specimens (8 skins) and 8 skulls, from 

 the following localities : — 



British Museum : — Zaruma, S. Ecuador (6). Cali, S. Colombia 

 (2). — 7 skulls, representing both localities. 



U.S. National Museum*: — Corondelet, N. Ecuador (1, with 

 skull). 



Range. — As yet known only from the region between Zaruma, 

 S. Ecuador, and Cali, S. Colombia. 



Artibeus jamaicensis lituratus Licht. 



1801. Chatwe-souris premiere ou CJiauve-souris olscnre et rayee, Azara, Essais 



sur I'histoire naturelle des Quadrupedes de la province du Paraguay, ii. 



pp. 269-70.— Paraguay. 

 1815. Fliyllostomus lituratus Illiger, Abh. Akad. Berlin, 28 Feb. 1811 (issued 



1815), p. 109. — Nomen nudum. 

 1823. Pliyllostomus litiiratus 111., Licbtenstein, Verz. Doubl. Berlin. Mus. p. 3. — 



Brazil. 

 1826. ? Phyllostoma superciliatum Wied, Beitr. Naturg. Bras. ii. pp. 200-202. — 



Type locality ; Rio de Janeiro. 

 1830. Fhyllostoma superciliatum Wied, Eengger, Naturg. Saugeth. Paraguay, 



pp. 74-75. — Paraguay. 

 1840. Fhyllostoma perspicillatum (partim, not L.) Wagner, Schreber's Saugtliiere, 



Suppl. i. pp. 403-5. — Spix's type of " Fh. planirostre " compared with 



Spix's specimens of A.J. lituratus. 

 1878. Artibetis perspicillatus (partim, not L.) Dobson, Cat. Chir. Brit. Mus. 



pp. 519-20. — Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia. 

 1878. Artibeus c/randis Dohson {ivom Gmy's MS.), op. cit. p. 250, specimen k^. — 



Nomen nudum. 

 1892. Artohius ferspicillatus (not L.) Winge, Jordfundne og nulevende Flagermus 



fra Lagoa Santa, Minas Geraes, Brasilien ; E Museo Lundii, ii. pt. 1, p. 10, 



pi. i. fig. 13. — Minas Geraes. 



1900. Artibeus lituratus Licht., Thomas, Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova (2) xx. p. 547 



(4 July, 1900).— Parana. 



1901. Artibeus jamaicensis Leach, Thomas, Ann. & Mag. N. H. (7) viii. p. 192 



(Sept. 1901).— Para. 

 1901.^r^/ie/(s litiiratus Licht., Thomas, Ann. & Mag. N. H. (7) viii. p. 441 (Nov. 



1901).— Paraguay. 

 1904. Artibeus rusbyi J. A. Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H. xx. Art. 20, pp. 230-31 (29 



June, 1904). — Type localitj' : Yuugas, " Peru " (probabl3' a slip for Bolivia). 



Diagnosis. — In all essential re.spects similar to ^.j/. jamaicensis, 

 bxit considerably larger. Total length of skull 30"5-34 mm. 



* U.S. N. M. no. 113363. 



