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N Jaumave, Tamaulipas, x 2-1/2.] _Remarks._--The essential differences between _D. stocki_ and _D. rotundus_ are in size and proportion. I do not doubt that the two species are closely related; possibly _stocki_ is ancestral to _rotundus_. The species is named in honor of the late Professor Chester Stock, under whose direction the fossil materials from San Josecito Cave were obtained, and who, at the time of his death, was studying the mammalian fauna from the cave. _Eptesicus cf. grandis_ (Brown) _Referred material._--One rostrum, with P4-M3 on the right side and P4 only on the left, LACM (CIT) 2990. _Remarks._--This specimen is referred provisionally to _E. grandis_. The dentition is larger and heavier, and the ridges and depressions on the dorsal surface of the rostrum are more pronounced than in Recent _E. fuscus_. The P4-M3 length is 6.1 (approximately 6.1 in the holotype of _grandis_, less in _fuscus_); least interorbital constriction, 4.2 (4.3 in the holotype of _grandis_, more in _fuscus_); breadth of rostrum between infraorbital canals, 6.4; breadth across P4, 7.3. TABLE 1.--Cranial measurements of two species of _Desmodus_. ---------------------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------- Catalogue number | G o | C l | Z b | B b | L c | B f or number of | r f | o e | y r | r r | e o | r o specimens averaged | e | n n | g e | e a | a n | e r | a s | d g | o a | a i | s s | a a | t k | y t | m d | d n | t t | d m | e u | l h | a t | t c | r | t e | s l | o | t h | h a | i i | h n | t l | b | i | s | n c | | | a | c | o e | t t | o m | l | s | | f | e i | f a | e | a | | | r o | g | n | l | | | o n | n | g | | | | r | u | t | | | | b | m | h | | | | i | | | | | | t | | | | | | a | | | | | | l |
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