PHYLLOSTOMIDiE. 



toes ; interfemoral membrane angularly emarginate, extending almost 

 as far back as the middle of the tibiae j calcaneum short, not 

 exceeding half the foot in length. 



The fur covers the fleshy part of the forearm, and extends upon 

 the wing-membrane almost as far as a line drawn from the elbow to 

 the distal third of the femur, a few fine hairs appear upon the 

 interfemoral membrane and upon the legs and backs of the feet ; 

 beneath, the membranes are almost naked. 



Upper inner incisors converging inwards, and touching by their 

 inner extremities, their summits broad and very distinctly notched ; 

 outer incisors minute ; lower incisors unequal, the two middle much 

 wider and somewhat longer than those next the canines, which are 

 very small, with oblique summits directed upwards and inwards, the 

 middle pair distinctly trifid (Plate XXVII. fig. 1) ; first upper pre- 

 molar in the tooth-row very small, cylindrical, with a flat circular 

 crown, smaller than the last upper molar, which is also cylindrical and 

 scarcely raised above the gum ; second upper premolar narrow, with 

 a triangular crown, equal to the first molar in cross section at the 

 base; the first molar narrow, much longer than broad, slightly 

 exceeding the second in vertical extent, without W-shaped cusps, 

 and without an internal basal projection ; second upper molar 

 similar, but smaller ; last upper molar very small, cylindrical, close 

 behind the second molar ; lower premolars nearly equal in size, with 

 broadly triangular summits ; molars very narrow, with a single 

 central triangular cusp and an anterior and posterior basal pro- 

 jection ; last molar slightly smaller than the antepenultimate molar 

 (Plate XXVII. figs, la, 16). 



Skull shortly and obtusely conical in front, the width across the 

 nasal bones less than between the temporal fossae ; brain-case but 

 slightly vaulted and raised above the face-line. 



Length, head and body 1"'8, interfemoral membrane in the 

 middle 0"-3, head 0"-7, ear 0"'6, tragus 0"-25, nose-leaf 0"-35 X 0"-2, 

 forearm l"-25, thumb 0"'35 ; third finger — metacarp. 1"-15, 1st ph. 

 0"'55, 2nd ph. 0"'7, 3rd ph. 0"-5 ; fourth finger — metacarp. 1"-15, 

 1st ph. 0"-45, 2nd ph. 0"'45 ; fifth finger— metacarp. l"-2, 1st ph. 

 0"-35, 2nd ph. 0"-35 ; tibia 0"-4, calcaneum 0"-15, foot 0"-35. 



Hah. Brazil (Bahia). 



This species connects the Vampyri with the Glossophagce and 

 with the Sternodermata, resembling the species of the former group 

 in the narrow molars and in the form of the nose-leaf, those of the 

 latter in the form and arrangement of the chin-warts, in the shape 

 of the ears, in the presence of a very prominent cutaneous ridge 

 extending upwards and outwards from the base of the inner margin 

 of the tragus, in the small circular last upper molar, and in the 

 absence of the tail. It is the smallest species of Phyllostomidce 

 known, the forearm being shorter than in either Artibeus cinereus 

 or A. quadrivittatus, which otherwise it approaches in size. 



a. c? ad., al. Bahia. G. E. Dobson, M.B. [E.]. 



