540 



PHYLLOSTOMIDJi:. 



conical, on each Bide and close to the inner incisor, and also lying 

 partly against the inner side of the front surface of the base of the 

 canine ; lower incisors equal or the middle incisors slightly larger 

 with straight faintly notched cutting-edges ; first upper premolar 

 exceeding the second in antero-posterior diameter at the base, but 

 less than it in vertical extent ; last molar scarcely one third the 

 size of the antepenultimate molar, with an oval crown of which the 

 longer diameter is transverse ; first lower premolar considerably ex- 

 ceeding the second in size, but equal to it in vertical extent ; last 

 lower molar about equal to the last upper, but its longer diameter 

 is placed in the direction of the jaw ; inner three fourths of the 

 crowns of the molars longitudinally concave, the outer one fourth 

 forming a notched cutting-edge (Plate XXVIII. fig. 5, upper jaw). 



Length (of an adult d), head and body 2"'4, head 0"-9, ear 0"-7 X 

 0"-4, tragus 0"-28, nose-leaf 0"-35 x 0"-22, forearm l"-7, thumb 

 0"-45; third finger— metacarp. l"-55, 1st ph. 0"-6, 2nd ph. 0"-75, 

 3rd ph. 0"-7; foiirth finger— metacarp. l"-6, 1st ph. 0"-5, 2nd ph. 

 0"-6; fifth finger— metacarp. l"-6, 1st ph. 0"-35, 2nd ph. 0"-5 ; tibia 

 0"-65, foot 0"-5. 



Hah. Neotropical Eegion (tropical and subtropical parts, appa- 

 rently generally distributed), 



a. ad. sk. Jamaica. P. H. Gosse, Esq. [C.]. 



h. ad. sk. Jamaica. J. Gould, Esq. [P.]. 



c. ad. sk. Honduras. Mr. Dyson [C.]. 



d. cJ ad., al. Pernambuco. J. P. G. Smith, Esq. 

 e,f. ad. ska. Bahia. Comte de Castelnau [P.]. 

 g-i. ad. sks. Rio Janeiro. Earl of Derby [P.]. 



j-q. ad sks. Sta. Catherina. Purchased. 



r, s. ad. sks. Minas Geraes. 



t. ad. sk. Brazil. Pm-chased. 



ti. ad. sks. Brazil. Purchased. 



V. c? ad , al. Brazil. 



tv. ad. sk. Rio Napo, Brazil. Purchased. 



(With very dark-coloured fur.) 



X. ad. sk. Huallaga. Mr. Bartlett [C.]. 



y-a'. ad. sks. Earl of Derby [P.]. 



V- ad. sk. St. George Mivart [P.]. 



c'. skull of c. 

 d'. skuU of e. 



e'. skull. No history. 



30. BRACHYPHYLLA. 



BrachyphyUa, Gray, P. Z. S. 1833, p. 123 : Mag. Zool. &■ Bot. ii. 

 p. 489 (1838). 



Muzzle conical, longer and narrower than in other genera of this 

 group ; nose-leaf small, near the extremity of the muzzle, bounded 

 posteriorly and laterally by a deep groove ; nasal apertures uncovered, 

 in the centre of the nose-leaf ; ears as in Phyllostoma ; lower lip 

 with a V-shaped groove in front margined by warts ; inner margins 

 of the lips with few conical pajHllao ; ijitcrfemoral membrane well 



