MAMMALIA. " 



our information on the zoological productions of South America. The Edo- 

 sloma cinerea* of that author has evidently a close affinity to the animal here 

 described, and differs chiefly (judging from the drawing published in his work) 

 in the larger size of the ears, in having the nose-leaf free, and the surrounding 

 membrane free and elevated. 



As M. d'Orbigny has not yet published the character of his genus Eclostoma, 

 his figure is my only guide, and in this figure I find the dentition agreeing both 

 with that of the present species, and that of the genus Desmodus of Prince 

 Maximilian, — as would appear from the published descriptions, and figure 

 given by M. de Blainvillef- — The points of distinction between M. d'Orbigny's 

 animal and the species here described, are not, in my opinion, of sufficient 

 importance to constitute generic characters, I have, therefore, retained the name 

 of Desmodus. 



It is desireable perhaps to separate the Blood-sucking Bats from the In- 

 sectivorous species, and place them between the latter group and the Pteropina, 

 (with which they agree in the large size of the thumb and the rudimentary 

 interfemoral membrane,) under a sectional name, which I propose to call Hcema- 

 tophilini. 



1. Phyllostoma Grayi. 



Plate II. 



P . fusco-cinereum ; nasus prosthemate lanceolato ; auribus mediocribus, trago basin 

 versus extus unidentato ; caudd gracillimd, brevi, et membrand interfemorali inclusd ; 

 verruca complanatd ad apicem menti, verrucis parvulis circumdatd. 



Description. — This Phyllostoma agrees with the species described by Mr. J. 

 Gray J under the name of Childreni, in having on the lower lip " an half 

 ovate group of crowded warts," but is of a much smaller size, and differs 

 also in colour. 



The number of teeth are as follows :— incisors f ; canines f; molars ^=32. 

 The intermediate pair of incisors of the upper jaw are large, compressed, and 

 have their apices rounded; the lateral pair are so minute, that they are 

 scarcely visible without the assistance of a lens : the four incisors of the 



* Voy. Amer. Morid. t. 8. 



t See his memoir " Sur quelques anomalies du systeme dentaire dans les mammiferes," published in the 

 " Annales Franchises et Etrangeres d'Anatomie et de Pliysiologie," No. 6, pi. IX. fig. 2. 

 % Magazine of Zoology and Botany, No. 12. 



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