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second, A. j. jxih)ia7'um and prcecejjs completely over bridge the 

 gap (if gap it be called) between lituratihs and jamaicensis. 



On the difference between A . j. liticratus and jjcobnaritm see 

 this latter form. 



Specimeiis examined. — 54 specimens (42 skins) and 42 skulls, 

 from the following localities : — 



British Museum: — Paraguay: Sapucay (7); Asuncion (1). — 

 Sta. Catharina (1). — Parana : Morretes, Serra do Mar, 10 m. (5) ; 

 Palmeira (1). — S. Paulo: Cruzeiro, 530 m. (5). — Minas Geraes : 

 Sete Lagoas (1). — Bahia ; Samarao, 300 m. (2). — Para (2). — 

 " Brazil " or uncertain localities (6). — Colombia : Cali (4) ; Bogota 

 region, variovis places (4) ; " Colombia" (2). — 36 skulls, from all 

 the localities enumerated. 



U.S. National Museum*: Paraguay: Sapucay and VillaK.ica(9). 

 — Sta. Catharina (1). — IST. Ecuador : Pambilar (1). — S. Colombia: 

 Cali (2). — 6 skulls, representing all these localities. 



Range. — Paraguay, Brazil, Ecuador, S. and Central Colombia. 



Linne's Vespertilio 2JS'^spicillafAis, 1758 t. — As pointed out by 

 Oldfield Thomas in 1892 and 1901 +, Linne's V. perspicillatus was 

 based primarily on Seba's " Vespertilio Aimericamis vulgaris " §, 

 which is the bat commonly called CaroUia brevicauda. 



Schreber's V. perspicillatus || is probably also CaroUia ; the 

 presence of a tail ("ganz in die Schwanzhaut eingeschlossen, und 

 so kurz, dass er noch nicht an die Halfte ihrer Mitte reicht ") 

 excludes at all events the genus Artibeus. 



Geoffroy's Phyllostoma iJersjncillatum ^ from Guiana is eithBr 

 A. planirostris or one of the large races of A. jamaicensis, which 

 of these two species cannot be decided from the description. The 

 species commonly brought by collectors from Guiana is A. plani- 

 rostris ; if Geoffroy's bat is an A . jcimaicensis, it is the only recoixl 

 known to me of this species from Guiana. The figure has the 

 front of the horseshoe completely confluent with the integument 

 of the muzzle. 



Wagner's desciiption of ^^ Phyllostoma perspicillatum" (184:0, 

 I. s. c.) was based on Spix's type of Ph. planirostre and two speci- 

 mens of A. jamaice^isis Uturatus, all of which had been obtained 

 by Spix at Bahia and were by Wagner taken to be " types " of 

 Ph. planirostre ; see pp. 238-239 of this paper. 



Dobson's Artibeus persp>iciUatus (1878, I. s. c.) is the species 

 hei'e called A . jamaicensis. 



Azara's Chaitve-soibris premiere, 1801. — In 1901**, Oldfield 



* U.S. N. M. nos. 105587, 105625-26, 113362, 113364-65, 115065, 121445, 121447, 

 121466-67, 121469, 122139. 



t Syst. Nat. ed. 10, i. p. 31 (1758). 



X Thomas, P. Z. S. 1892, p. 315; Ann. & Mag. N. H. (7) viii. p. 192 (Sept. 1901). 



§ Seba, Thesaurus, i. p. 90, pi. Iv. fig. 2 (1734). 



II Schreber, Saugthiere, i. pp. 160-61, pi. xlvi. a (1775). 



•f" Geoffi-oy, Ann. Mus. d'Hist. Nat. xv. pp. 176-77, 186, pi. xi, upper right figure 

 (1810). 



** Thomas. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (7) viii. pp. 441, 443 (Nov. 1901). 



