14. CAKOLtlA. 493 



the basal projections on the inner sides of the upper molars feebly 

 developed, -with a single tubercle only, so that these teeth are tri- 

 angxilar in cross section at the base. Skull wider between the post- 

 orbital fossaj than across the anterior extremities of the nasal bones. 

 Zygomatic arches deficient. (See Plate XXVI. figs, 5, 5a.) 



1. Carollia brevicauda. 



Phyllostoma bre-vicaudum, Wied, Schinz, Thierreich, i. p. 164 (1821) ; 



Wied, Beitr. zur Naturgesch. Brasil. ii. p. 192 (1825) ; Wagner, 



Suppl. Schreh. Siiugeth. i. p. 401 (1844), v. p. 626 (1865) ; Btirmeister, 



Thiere Brasil. p. 41 (1854). 

 Vampyrus soricitius, Spix, Simiar. et Vespert. Brasil. p. 66, pi. xxxvi. 



%s. ii. & vi. (1823). 

 Phyllostoma grayi, Waterhouse, Voy. ' Beagle,' Mammalia, p. 3, pi. ii. 



(1839). 

 Phyllostoma lanceolatum {Natterer), Temminck, Or ay, List Mammalia 



Brit. Mm. p. 20 (1843). 

 Phyllostoma bicolor, Wagner, op. cif. i. p. 400 (1844), v. p. 626 



(1855). 

 CaroUia verrucata, Gray, Voy. ' Sulphur,' Mammalia, p. 20, pi. viii. 



fig. 3 (1844). 

 Phyllostoma calcaratum, Wagner, Ahh. Munch. Akad. v. p. 108. 

 Phyllostoma brachyotum, Burmeister, op. cit. p. 46 (1854) (vide 



Peters, MB. Akad. Berlin, 1865, p. 519, note). 

 Hemiderma brevicaudum, Gervais, Exped. du Comte de Castelnau, 



Zoologie, p. 43, pi. vii. fig. 4, pi. ix. figs. 8, 8 a (1855). 

 Carollia azteca, Saussure, Revue et Mag. Zool. xii. p. 480, pi. xx. 



figs. 1, la (1860). 

 Carollia brevicauda, Peters, I. c* 

 Rhinops minor, Gray, P. Z. S. 1866, p. 115. 



Head slightly raised above the face-line, forehead flat; muzzle 

 conical, the distance between the eyes is equal to the distance from 

 the eye to the end of the muzzle ; nose-leaf at the extremity of the 

 muzzle, the front margin continuous with the upper lip ; terminal 

 erect leaf ovate, acuminate, arising, as in Phyllostoma, between the 

 nasal apertures, the centre of the leaf slightly raised, but not form- 

 ing a longitudinal ridge ; ears separate, much shorter than the head, 

 the upper third of the outer margin concave, the lower two thirds 

 graduaJly convex ; tragus as in Phyllostoma hastatum, a prominent 

 ridge, directed upwards and inwards, in front of the base of its 

 inner margin ; lower lip with a central wart, and on either side a 

 longitudinal elevation, divided by grooves into oblong warts, forming 

 a triangle. 



Wings from the ankles ; interfemoral membrane rather deep, 

 angularly emarginate in a line with the commencement of the distal 

 third of the tibia ; tail short, contained, as in Phyllostoma, in the 

 base of the membrane ; calcaneum short, equal to half the foot in 

 length. 



Fur moderately long and dense, dark brown above and beneath, 



* The synonymy of this species has been well worked out by Dr. Peters in 

 his paper on the group Vampyri referred to above. 



