16. OLOS80PHAGA. 499 



16. GLOSSOPHAQA. 



Glo3sopliaga, Geofroy (in part), Mini, du Museum, i\. p. 411 (1818); 



Tschudi, Fauna Peruana, p. 69 (1844-46) ; Burmeister (in part), 



Thiere Brasiliens, p. 52 (1854) ; Peters, MB. Akad. Berl. 1868 



p. 362. 

 Phyllophora et Glossophaga, Gray, Mag. Zool. 8f Bot. ii. pp. 489, 



490 (1838). 

 Nicon, Gray, Ann. ^ Mag. Nat. Hist. xix. p. 407 (1847). 



Muzzle moderately long ; erect portion of the nose-leaf well de- 

 veloped ; tongue with long filiform papiUte on the sides ; inter- 

 femoral membrane large ; calcaneum and taU distinct, the latter 

 terminating on the upper surface of the membrane. 



Dentition. Inc. |, c. j^, pm. ^, m. ^^. 



Upper and lower incisors forming a continuous semicircular row 

 between the canines ; the inner upper incisors larger and broader 

 than the outer ones ; molars with distinct W-shaped cusps. 



Skull moderately long, with well-developed zygomatic arches. 



1. Glossophaga soricina. 



VespertUio sorieinus, Pallas, Miscell. Zoohg. p. 48, pi. iv. figs. 16-18, 



and pi. V. (1766) ; Spioileg. Zoolog. iii. p. 24, pis. iii., iv. (1767) ; 



Schreber, Saugeth. i. p. 161, pi. slvii. (1775). 

 Phyllostoma soricinum, Geoffroy, Ann. du Museum, xv. p. 179, 



pi. xi. (1810). 

 Glossophaga soricina et amplexicaudata, Geoffroy, Mem. du Museum, 



iv. p. 418, pi. xviii. (1818) ; Wagner, Suppl. Schreh. Saugeth. i, 



pp. 887, 390, V. pp. 617, 618. 

 Glossophaga amplexicaudata, Spix, Simiar. et Vesjjert. Brasil. p. 66, 



pi. xxxvi. fig. IV. (1823) ; Wied, Beitr. zur Naturg. Brasil. p. 208 



(1826) ; Tschudi, Fauna Peruana, p. 69 (1844-46). 

 PhyUophora amplexicaudata et Glossophaga soricina. Gray, Mag. 



Zool. ^ Bot. ii. p. 490 (1838). 

 PhyUophora nigra. Gray, Voy. ' Sulphur,' p. 18, pi. v. fig. i. (1844). 

 MonophyUus leachii, Gray, Voy. ' Sulphur,' Mammalia, p. 18 (1844). 

 . Nicon caudifer, Gray, Ann. 8,- Mag. Nat. Hist. xix. p. 407 (1847). 

 PhyUophora amplexicaudata, Gei-vais, Exped. du Comte de Casielnau, 



Zoolog. p. 40, pi. viii. figs. 1, 1 a, 1 6, pi. ix. fig. 9 (1855). 

 Glossophaga soricina, Peters, MB. Akad. Berl. 1865, p. 352, 1868, 



p. 362. 



Muzzle narrow and elongated, the distance between the eyes is 

 equal to three fourths the distance between the eye and the end of 

 the muzzle : ears short and broad, much shorter than the head, 

 broadly rounded off ; inner margin of the ear-conch strongly convex, 

 outer straight in upper two thirds, in lower third slightly convex : 

 tragus triangular, acutely pointed as in Ehinophylla : nose-leaf at 

 the extremity of the muzzle ; the horizontal portion very narrow in 

 front, slightly broader than the erect leaf, which is ovate-acuminate 

 and slightly concave on the sides towards the extremity ; no central 



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