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Show 1893.] MR. O. THOMAS ON MAMMALS EROM CENTRAL PERU. 335 premolars only |, the anterior one above perhaps lost, and not really absent normally. Lower incisors 4. Measurements of the type, an aged female in alcohol:-Eorearm 34-5 m m . ( = 1-35 in.); head and body 46 • tail 28; head 18; ear from notch 14-5; both ears, tip to tip across head, 25-5; tragus 4 • metacarpus of third finger 35, of fifth 22 ; lower les: 8; hind foot 7. & Hab. Central Peru. This interesting little species differs widely from any of the previously known Neotropical Nyctinomi, and seems to approach some of the members of the group called Mormopterus by Peters notably in the extreme reduction of the keel of the ear-conch, and in the absence of the upper anterior premolar ; in fact, of all the known species, the Australian N. norfolcensis, Gray, appears to resemble it most nearly, although whether this resemblance really amounts to relationship, I a m not at present prepared to say. It is with great pleasure that I connect with this new Bat the name of its discoverer, M . Kalinowski, to whose labours we owe the valuable collection of small Mammals described in the present paper. r 7. PHYLLOSTOMA HASTATUM, Pall. a, b. 2 ad. al. J $ . Chanchamayo. 8. GLOSSOPHAGA SORICINA, Pall. a-d. 4 in al. Central Peru. 9. ANURA GEOFFROYI, Gray. Anoura geoffroyi, Gray, Mag. Zool. Bot. ii. p. 490 (1838) (excl syn.). Chceronycteris peruana, Tschudi, Eaun. Per., M a m m D 71 (1844). P" Glossonycteris lasiopyga, Pet. M B . Ak. Berl. 1868, p. 365; Alston, Biol. Cent.-Am., M a m m . p. 45 (1879). Glossonycteris geoffroyi, Dobs. Cat. Chir. B. M . p. 508 (1878). a. Imm. al. Central Peru. As the synonymy shows, Dobson and Alston have each thought it necessary to use a different name for this species, different both from each other and from that of the original describer Gray. On reviewing the whole case, it appears to m e that Dobson was right in considering the species named geoffroyi sufficiently characterized by the diagnosis given by Gray under the generic heading of " Anoura," A. geoffroyi being the only species. This being the case, it is also clear that Anura must be used for the genus, as the name had not been previously used in a generic sense in zoology. Eor both genus and species, therefore, I use the earliest name, verified as the identification is by the existence of Gray's type specimen. The occurrence of this species in Peru confirms the reported identity of Tschudi's " Chceronycteris peruana" with it. 23* |
