25. STENODERMA. 527 



Synopsis of the Species. 



a. Molars -g^ ; upper central incisors bicuspi- 

 date ; sides of the palatal emargination 

 parallel. {Subg. Pettorhinus, Ftia.) .... 1. S. achradophilum,^. 527 . 



h. Molars ^—^ ! upper central incisors unicus- 

 pidate. 

 a'. Frontal deeply concave; sides of the 

 palatal emargination parallel. (Subg. 



Stenoderina, Ptrs.) 2. S. rufum, p. 529. 



b '. Frontal slightly concave ; sides of the 

 palatal emargination converging for- 

 wards. (Subg. Phyllops, Ptrs.) 3. S.falcaium, p. 529. 



1. Stenoderma achradophilmn. 



Artibeus jamaicensis, Gosse (non Leach), A NaturaKst''s Sojourn in 



Jamaica, p. 270 (1851), pi. id. fig. 3 ; Gray, Ann. Nat. Hist. 1839, 



p. 2 ; Gervais, I. c. p. 35, pi. ix. fig. 2. 

 Artibeus achradophUus et sulphui'eus, Gosse, I. c. p. 271, pi. vi. 



figs. 4, 5. 

 Ariteus flavescens, Gi-ay, P. Z. S. 1866, p. 117. 

 Peltorhinus achradopMlus, Peters, MB. Akad. Perl 1876, pp. 433, 434, 



pi. ii. 



Muzzle short and very broad, the distance between the eyes ex- 

 ceeds considerably the distance from the eye to the extremity of the 

 muzzle ; centre of the front margin of the horizontal nose-leaf 

 slightly produced forwards Ln a small V-shaped process, terminating 

 in a small wart-like elevation near the margin of the upper lip ; 

 posterior nose-leaf ovate-lanceolate, with an abruptly narrowed and 

 very acute summit, with a longitudinal central ridge on its front 

 surface as in Artibeus perspicillatus, which species it also closely 

 resembles in the form of the ear-conch and tragus ; lower lip with 

 a small central wart in front, bounded by a smaller wart on each 

 side and one on each side beneath. 



Interf emoral membrane short, regularly concave behind ; wings 

 from the tarsi. 



The fur of the body extends densely upon the wing-membrane 

 above as far as a line drawn from the elbow to the ankle ; nearly 

 two thirds of the forearm are thickly covered, and fine hairs extend 

 along the distal third to the carpus ; the legs and the interfemoral 

 membrane are covered with rather long hairs, which form a fringe 

 along the posterior margin of the interfemoral and extend upon the 

 legs to the base of the claws, some short hairs appearing on the 

 wing-membrane and fringing part of its posterior margin. 



Pur, above, light reddish brown, paler beneath, the middle of 

 each hair lighter coloured ; a small white patch of hair on each 

 shoulder at anterior point of origin of the antebrachial membrane ; 

 no facial streaks. In immature individuals the fur is darker 

 throughout. 



