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fossa. Cochlea large, the diameter more than twice as much as width 

 of basioccipital. Lumbar vertebra fused, as in Asellia. 

 Species examined. — Triwnops persicus Dobson. 



Family PHYLLOSTOMID.E. 



1821. Ycupertilionida: (part; Race 1, part) Gkay, London Medical Reposi- 

 tory, XV, p. 299, April 1, 1821. 



1821. NoctiUonida: (part,; Race 1, part, and Race 2) Gray, London Medical 

 Repository, XV, p. 299, April 1, 1821. 



1827. Les Pbyllostomes (part) Lesson, Man. de Mammalogie, p. 76. 



1831. VespertiMones (Vespertilionidw) (part; Noctilionina, part, and Phyl- 

 lostomina, part) Bonaparte, Saggio di una distrib. metodica degli 

 Anim. Vert, p. 14. 



1838. Vampiridw Bonaparte, Nuovi Annali delle Scienze Natural], Bologna, 

 Anno I, Toino II, p. 112. 



1838. Istiophori (part; Phyllostomina, part) Gray, Mag. Zool. and Bot, 

 II, p. 480, December, 1838. 



1839. Plvyllostomidw (part)WATERHOusE, Zoology of tbe Voyage of H. M. S. 

 Beagle, II, Mammalia, p. 1. 



1840. Istiophora (part; Phyllostomata, part) Wagner, Schreber's Saug- 

 tbiere, Snpplementb., I, p. 384. 



1840. Gymnorhina (part; Brachyura, part) Wagner, Schreber's Saugthiere, 



Supplements, I, p. 445. 

 1855. [Phijllostom-idw] " I'hyllostomid&s " (part) Gervais, Exped. du Comte 



de Castelnau, Zool., Mamm, p. 29. 



1864. Mcgadcrmatidw H. Allen, Monogr. Bats. N. Ainer., p. 1 (part; 

 Macrotnn=Otoptcriis, and Megadcrma are tbe only genera mentioned). 



1865. Phyllostomata (part) Peters, Monatsber. k. preuss, Akad. Wissensch., 

 Berlin, p. 256. 



1866. 'NoctiUonida 1 (part; Phyllodiana) Gray', Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist, 3d 

 ser., XVII, p. 92. 



1866. Phyllostomldw (part) Gray', Proc. Zool. Soc. London, p. 111. 



1872. Phyllostomida' Gill, Arrangement of tbe Families of Mammals, p. 16. 



1875. Phyllostomidw (part) Dobson, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., 4th ser., 



XVI, p. 349, November, 1875. 

 1875. Phyllostomatidw Coues and Yarrow, Rep. Geogr. and Geol. Expl. and 



Surv. west of lOOtb Merid.,V, p. 79. 

 1878. Phyllostomidw (part) Dobson, Catal. Cbiropt. Brit. Mus., p. 445. 

 1886. Phyllostomida- Gill, Standard Natural History, V. p. 175. 



1891. Phyllostomatidw (part) Flower and Lydekker, Mammals living and 

 extinct, p. 672. 



1892. Phyllostomatidw (part) Winge, Jordfundne og nulevende Flagermus 

 (Chiroptera) fra Lagoa Santa, Minas Geraes, Brasilien, p. 24. 



Geographic distribution. — Warmer parts of America north to the 

 Bahama Islands and the southern border of the United States. 



Characters. — Humerus with trochiter well developed, though not 

 as large as trochin, usually articulating with scapula by a surface 

 about one-third as large as glenoid fossa (not articulating in Chi- 

 lonycterinse) , epitrochlea moderately developed, usually with distinct 



