Genus Carrollia, 



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Carrollia irridescens. Lutz MS. 



Head yellowish-brown ; thorax brown with some paler, 

 almost golden scales behind, a pale slaty, frosty-grey nude area 

 at the sides in front extending into the pleura with a dark 

 brown line beneath and then the pale ochreous coxae ; abdomen 

 deep brown with basal creamy bands and large silvery white 

 lateral spots, segments deeply constricted basally. Legs brown 

 unbanded ; mid femora swollen with two round pale spots. 



$ . Head brown clothed with flat ochreous scales, palest in 

 front between the eyes, dusky behind and at the sides, a few 

 pale narrow-curved scales in the middle behind and bright 



Fig. 54. 

 Antennal segments of dT Carrollia irridescens. Lutz. 



ochreous upright forked scales, two large dark brown bristles o» 

 each side near the eyes, projecting forwards and inwards and two- 

 small ones between the eyes ; palpi brown, thin, as long as the 

 proboscis, a narrow pale band towards the base, the apical 

 segment not quite as long as the penultimate, no hair-tufts at 

 all ; antennae grey, the segments swollen at the base of the long, 

 brown rings of verticillate hairs, there are also prominent short 

 hairs on one side of the internodes forming an incomplete 

 secondary verticillate area; basal segment bright ochreous;: 

 proboscis deep brown, a few long chaetae beneath at the base ; 

 clypeus deep brown. 



Thorax deep shiny black with large narrow-curved bronzy- 

 brown scales, which become paler, almost creamy on each side in. 



