24. vAMPXROPs. 523 



VampjTops lineatus, Peters, MB. Akad. Berl. 1865, p. 356, 1876, 

 pp. 430-432, pi. i. figs. 8-14 (head, tragus, skull, and teeth). 



About the size of Artibeus cinereus, but the muzzle is conspicuously 

 longer and narrower. Tragus abruptly acuminate, the outer margin 

 with a prominent rounded lobe near its base, and above it a 

 projecting tooth. Horizontal nose-leaf free at the very margin 

 only, circular, finely crenulate ; the lanceolate portion as in A. 

 cinereus. 



Wing-membrane extending to the metatarsus close to the base of 

 the toes ; calcaneum short, distinct ; interfemoral membrane short, 

 concave behind, scarcely extending in the middle beyond a line 

 drawn between the knees. 



Fur more or less dark brown above, paler or ashy-brown beneath ; 

 face with four white streaks arranged as in A. perspicillatits, but 

 much broader and very distinct ; a narrow line of white fur extends 

 from the occiput to the interfemoral membrane ; the outer and 

 inner sides of the ear-conch are margined with white in their lower 

 three fourths. 



Upon the wing-membrane the fur extends outwards nearly as far 

 as a line drawn from the elbow to the knee ; the upper surface of 

 the interfemoral is very thinly clothed, but a fringe of fine hairs 

 hangs from its posterior free margin ; the legs are nearly naked, and 

 the toes are clothed with a few hairs. 



Middle upper incisors moderate, each with a broad cusp directed 

 inwards and slightly forwards, separated by its base from its fellow 

 of the opposite side, but touching it by the inner side of its extre- 

 mity ; outer incisors very small, conical, straight, not fiUing up the 

 spaces between the canines and the middle incisors ; first upper pre- 

 molar straight, like a small canine, second premolar very large, 

 nearly equalling the canine ia vertical extent ; anterior cusp of the 

 first molar but slightly shorter ; last upper molar small, placed pre- 

 cisely as in A. planirostris, behind and to the inner side of the ante- 

 penultimate molar ; lower incisors very smaU, slightly notched ; 

 middle lower molar largest, first molar next in size, third molar 

 smallest. 



Length (of the type specimen), head and body about 2"-3, ear 

 0"-65, nose-leaf 0"-4, forearm 1"*65, thumb 0"-4 ; third finger — 

 metaoarp. l"-6, 1st ph. 0"-65, 2nd ph. 0"-95, 3rd ph. 0"-7 ; fourth 

 finger — metacarp. l"-5, 1st ph. 0"-5, 2nd ph. 0"-6 ; fifth finger — 

 metacarp. l"-5, 1st ph. 0"-45, 2nd ph. 0"-5 ; tibia 0"-6, calcaneum 

 0"-2, foot 0"-4. 



Hab. Brazil (Kio Janeiro ; Sta. Catherina) ; Bahia ; Mate Grosso ; 

 Columbia (Bogota) ; Paraguay ; Upper Amazons. 



a. imm. sk. Bogota, Coliunbia. 



b. imm. sk. Bahia. M. F. de Castelnau [0.]. 



c. ad. sk. Sta. Catherina, Brazil. 



d. $ ad., al. Upper Amazons. 



^. ad. sk. Brazil, Purchased. 



/. (5' ad., al. 



