. Smithsonian miscellaneous collections. necting with ridges extending upward to protocone and teeth are 28 in number. DIRIAS ALBIVENTER MINOR (Osgood) Little Bull Dog Bat XoctMo minor Osgood, Field Mus. Nat. Hist., Publ. 149, zool. ser., Vol. 10,p. 30, October 20, 1910. Type from Encontrados, Zulia, Venezuela. A Panama specimen of this bat is a very dark shade of brown, ornear bone brown (Ridgway, 1912) above, with a faint grayish median 1/8 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. 69 stripe down the posterior part of the back; the underparts arewhitish. It is a robust animal
. Smithsonian miscellaneous collections. necting with ridges extending upward to protocone and teeth are 28 in number. DIRIAS ALBIVENTER MINOR (Osgood) Little Bull Dog Bat XoctMo minor Osgood, Field Mus. Nat. Hist., Publ. 149, zool. ser., Vol. 10,p. 30, October 20, 1910. Type from Encontrados, Zulia, Venezuela. A Panama specimen of this bat is a very dark shade of brown, ornear bone brown (Ridgway, 1912) above, with a faint grayish median 1/8 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. 69 stripe down the posterior part of the back; the underparts arewhitish. It is a robust animal with large feet, and narrow earstapering to slender points. The fur is short. The forearm measuresabout 60 millimeters. The form was known only from Venezuela until recorded fromEmpire, Panama, by E. W. Nelson (1912, p. 93). The record wasbased on an individual shot flying across an old pineapple field nearCulebra Cut just at dusk, February 2, 1912. Several others appearedat the same time and all had doubtless just come from some hiding. Fig. 3.—Dirias albiventer 179848, U. S. Nat. Mus. About nat. size. place in the vicinity. They flew with rapid wing strokes, passing at aheight of about 30 feet from the ground and so near that the erectears were noted. Another example secured flew into my quarters atEmpire during the evening of February 16, 1912. The two indi-viduals secured have been compared with the type and anotherexample from Venezuela and found to agree essentially with dry skin is darker than the Venezuela specimens, but in all prob-ability merely represents a darker color examined : Empire, 2. Family PHYLLOSTOMIDAE. Leaf-nosed Bats By far the greater number of American bats are comprised in thisrather heterogeneous family under which a number of subfamiliesare recognized. The family includes the largest of American bats,but the range in size is extraordinary, some of the species being verysmall-. The members are usually distinguishabl
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