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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. — Tricenop's persicus Dobson. 
Family PHYLLOSTOMIDdE. 
1821. Vespertilionida: (part; Race 1, part) Gray, London Medical Reposi- 
tory, XV, p. 299, April 1, 1821. 
1821. Noctilionidw (part; Race 1. part, and Race 2) Gray, London Medical 
Repository, XV, p. 299, April 1, 1821. 
1827. Les Phyllostomes (part) Lesson, Man. de Mammalogie, p. 70. 
1831. Vespertiliones ( V espertilionidw ) (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, Tomo II, p. 112. 
1838. lstiophori (part; Phyllostomina, part) Gray, Mag. Zool. and Bot., 
II, p. 486, December, 1838. 
1839. Phyllostomidw (part) Waterhouse, Zoology of the Voyage of H. M. S. 
Beagle, II, Mammalia, p. 1. 
1840. Istiophora (part; Pliyllostomata, part) Wagner, Schreber’s Saug- 
thiere, Supplements, I, p. 384. 
1840. Gymnorhina (part; Brachyura, part) Wagner, S'chreber’s Saugthiere, 
Supplements, I, p. 445. 
1855. [ Phyllostomidw ] “ Phyllostomides ” (part) Gervais, Exped. du Comte 
de Castelnau, Zool., Mamin., p. 29. 
1864. Megadermatidw II. Allen, Monogr. Bats. N. Amer., p. 1 (part; 
Macrotus=Otopterus , and Megaderma are the only genera mentioned). 
1865. Pliyllostomata (part) Peters, Monatsber. k. preuss, Akad. WissenscS, 
Berlin, p. 256. 
1866. Noctilionidw (part; Phyllodiana) Gray, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., 3d 
ser., XVII, p. 92. 
1866. Phyllostomidw (part) Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, p. 111. 
1872. Phyllostomidw Gill, Arrangement of the Families of Mammals, p. 16. 
1875. Phyllostomidw (part) Dobson, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., 4th ser., 
XVI, p. 349, November, 1875. 
1875. Pliyllostomatidw Coues and Yarrow, Rep. Geogr. and Geol. Expl. and 
Surv. west of 100th Merid.,V, p. 79. 
1878. Phyllostomidw (part) Dobson, Catal. Chiropt. Brit. Mus., p. 445. 
1886. Phyllostomidw Gill, Standard Natural History, V, p. 175. 
1891. Pliyllostomatidw (part) Flower and Lydekker, Mammals living and 
extinct, p. 672. 
1892. Pliyllostomatidw (part) Winge, Jordfundne og nulevende Flagermus 
(Chiroptera) fra Lagoa Santa, Minas Geraes, Brasilien, p. 24. 
Geographic distribution. — Warmer parts of America r orth 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 
