MAMMALIA. 
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our information on the zoological productions of South America. The Edo- 
stoma 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 Edostoma, 
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 Blainvillet- — 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 llmna- 
tophilini. 
1. Phyllostoma Gray i. 
Plate II. 
P . fusco-cinereum ; nasiis prosthemate lanceolato ; auribus mediocribus, trago basin 
versus extus unidentato ; cauda gracillima, brevi, et membrana interfemorali inclusa ; 
verruca complanata ad apicem menti, verrucis parvulis circumdata. 
Description. — This Phyllostoma agrees with the species described by Mr. J. 
Gray;}; 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 jE§= 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 
* Yoy. Amer. Merid. t. 8. 
t See his memoir “ Sur quelques anomalies du syst^me dentaire dans les mammif&res,” published in the 
“ Annales Franqaises et Etrangeres d’Anatomie et de Physiologie,” No. 6, pi. IX. fig. 2. 
+ Magazine of Zoology and Botany, No. 12. 
