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Show MAMMALIA. our information on the zoological productions of South America. The Edostoma 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 Edosloma, 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 g·enus 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 fi·om the Insectivorous 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 ]J(£matopltilini. 1. PHYLLOSTOMA GnAYI. PLATE II. P. fnsco-cineremn; nasz1s p1·ostltemate lanceolato ; au1·ib~ts mediocribus, tmgo basin versus ext us unideutato; caudd gracillimlt, brevi, et membrana interfemorali inclusa; verruca complanata ad apicem menti, verrzu:is parvulis ci1·cumdata. DEscnn'TION.-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 smallet· size, anu differs also in colour. The number of teeth are as follows :-incisors t; canines i; 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. Merid. t. 8. t Sec his memoir "Sur quelques anomalies du systemo dentaire dans los mammiferes," published in the "Atmalcs Fmnc;aiscs ct Etrangercs d'Anatomic ct de Physiologic," No. 6, pl. IX. fig. 2. t Magazine of Zoology and Botany, No. 12. B 2 |
