488 A Revision of the Genera of Bats, 



* Front of the lower lip with a triangular space, having a huge 

 wart on each side and a series on the edge. 



Javelin Phyllostome. Phyllostoma hastatum, Geoff. Ann. Mus. 

 xv. t. ii. Phyllostomus maximus, Pr. Max. Abbild. t. 71- Vesp. 

 hastatus, Pall. Le Chauve-souris fer de lance, Buff'. H.N. xiii. t. 

 33, cop. Schreb. t. 46. Encyc. Meth. t. 30. f. 4. Vesp. perspicillatus, 

 Schreb. t 46, a. Pteropus hastatus, Erxleb. Javelin Bat, Penn, t. 

 30, fig. 4. Variable in colour, hair brown, tipt with gray. 1. male, 

 fulvous brown ; 2. female, brown ; 3. male, blackish. Inhabits 

 Brazil. British Museum. 



See also Phyllostoma elongatum, Geoff. Ann. Mus. xv. t. 6. f. — 

 Phyllostoma crenulatum, Geoff. Ann. Mus. xv. t. 6, f. Desm. Nouv. 

 Diet. xxvi. t. m. 28, f. 3. Encyc. Meth. t. 3, f. 10. Inhabits ? 



Sooty Phyllostome. Phyllostoma fuliginosum, Gray. — Sooty-black, 

 hair of head and neck with greyish tips, beneath greyer ; nose-leaf 

 ovate-lanceolate, quite entire, 1^ as long again as broad ; ears sharp ; 

 wings black ; tail end free. Inhabits S. America. British Museum. 

 From Sir Everard Home. 



* * Lower lip with an half ovate group of crowded warts. 



Children's Phyllostome. Phyllostoma Childreni, Gray. — Brown, 

 slightly grizzled, with grey tips to the hairs, beneath greyer ; ears 

 large with rather membranaceous rounded at the ends ; nose-leaf ovate- 

 lanceolate, rather longer than wide ; wings brown ; warts of lower lip 

 in 3 or 4 arched series, crowded. Expanse 12". Inhabits S. Ame- 

 rica. British Museum. From J. G. Children, Esq. 



* * * Front of lower lip with a small smooth ovate space formed of 



two small tubercles, as in Vampyrus. 

 Bennett's Phyllostome. Phyllostoma Bennettii, Gray. — Fulvous 

 brown, rather paler beneath ; hair very long, soft, with greenish 

 tips ; ears very large, rather acute ; nose-leaf very large, ovate-lan- 

 ceolate, with a thick convex midrib ; wings brown. Exp. 12"; nose- 

 leaf 8'". Inhabits S. America. British Museum. Named in me- 

 mory of my excellent friend, whose early death all zoologists must 

 deplore. 



* * # * Front of the lower lip with a large central wart, having 

 a series of large oblong transverse warts on the edge, the upper 

 warts sometimes divided into 2 or 3. 



Soricine Phyllostome. Phyllostoma soricinum, Fischer. Vam- 

 pyrus soricinus, Spi%, Braz. t. 36, f. 2-6. Inhabits Brazils. 



5. Carollia. Interfemoral membrane large, truncated ; tail 

 none ; tragus very small. 



Brazilian short-eared bat. Carollia Braziliensis. Phyllostoma 

 brachyotum, Pr. Max. t. f. 1-2. Inhabits Brazils. 



