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in 1843. The development of membrane on the 
face of this species, especially in the involved and 
foliated expansions of the lower lip, exceeds any 
thing of the kind that I am acquainted with, and 
forms a very singular spectacle. The colour of the 
fur is not mentioned in the published descriptions ; 
it is of a delicate light rufous hue ; and its texture is 
particularly fine, soft, and silky. 
In a letter dated February 27th, 1847, Mr. Hill 
mentions a Bat apparently of a well-marked, but new 
species ; certainly very dissimilar to any that occurred 
to me. He thus writes : — “ Among the specimens 
of Bats that you carried home, did you observe 
any with the membrane forming the wing in part 
transparent and in part opaque ? I had a Bat given 
me a day or two ago, which I took to be a Mo- 
nophyllus ; — the ears being rounded and the nose- 
leaf sharp ; but the membranes of whose wings were 
not brown, as is said of the Monophyllus assigned to 
Jamaica. (Pen. Cycl. ; Cheiroptera.) Between 
the outer phalanges, answering to the first and second 
finger, the wings were of a transparent dirty white ; 
and between the remaining membranes of the fingers 
and body of an opaque black. The Bat when fiying 
looked like some birds with white-marked quills and 
secondaries. This specimen, I regret to say, escaped 
from me when I attempted to get him out of the 
handkerchief in which I had wrapped him ; but I 
shall endeavour to recover a similar specimen from 
the place whence this one was procured.” 
My friend, however, had afterwards reason to think 
