An adult male (testes 6 mm) yellow-shouldered bat from Daraili, 5 km N
and 14 km E Condega, 940 m, in Madriz, provides the only specimen thus
far reported from Nicaragua. _Sturnira ludovici_ evidently is relatively
rare in Nicaragua and may be confined to the highlands in the north,
whereas the smaller _S. lilium_ is abundant throughout the country and
is the only other species of _Sturnira_ represented in our collections.
We provisionally refer our specimen to _S. l. ludovici_ pending Luis de
la Torre's forthcoming review of the genus. Selected measurements are:
total length, 77 mm; length of hind foot, 15 mm; length of ear, 19 mm;
length of forearm, 44.8 mm; weight, 26.8 gms; greatest length of skull,
24.2 mm; zygomatic breadth, 14.2 mm; postorbital breadth, 6.3 mm;
breadth of braincase, 10.5 mm; length of maxillary toothrow, 6.8 mm.