94 KERIVOULA. 



long and strong, curved backwards, without postcalcaneal lobe. 

 Outer incisor shorter than the inner one, sometimes minute. 



Dentition. I. | C.-g, P. g, M. f=f = 38. 



Habits. Insectivorous ; forest-haunting. 



1. KERIVOULA PAPUENSIS, Dobson (1878). 

 Eastern Forest Bat. 



Ears extending nearly to the end of the muzzle when laid for- 

 wards, the tips rounded, the outer margin with a deep concavity 

 occupying its upper fourth. Tragus with a distinct rounded lobe 

 at the base of its outer margin, succeeded by a deep notch. Fur 

 above dark brown, with the terminal fourth shining yellow ; below 

 paler brown, with the extreme tips shining gray ; forearm clothed 

 with short adpressed golden hairs. 



Dimensions. Head and body about one and four-fifths inch ; 

 tail about the same length ; forearm about one and a half inch. 



Habitat. North-eastern Australia ; South-eastern New Guinea. 

 Reference. Dobson, B.M. Catal. Chiropt. p. 339. 



Genus VII. MINIOPTERUS, Bonaparte (1837). 



Muzzle rather short and broad ; glandular prominences well 

 developed. Crown of the head abruptly and considerably elevated 

 above the face-line. Nostrils simple, lunate, sublateral. Ears 

 rhomboidal, separate ; tragus short and obtuse. First phalanx 

 of middle finger very short. Wings to the ankles or the tibiae, 

 attached to the inferior surface. Feet long and slender ; toes 

 subequal. Upper incisors short, weak, separated from the canines. 



Dentition. -I. |, C.-j=J, P. g, M. ^ = 36. 

 Habits. Insectivorous. 



1. MINIOPTERUS SCHREIBERSI, Natterer (1819). 

 Schreibers' Bat. 



A deep horizontal groove beneath the eye. Ears much shorter 

 than the head, very much rounded above, the outer margin straight 

 above. Tragus rather more than twice as long as broad, rounded 

 above. Wings to the ankles or to the extremity of the tibiae. 

 Feet long and slender. Tail wholly contained within the inter- 

 femoral membrane, which is nearly naked above. Fur above and 

 below grayish, sometimes reddish, the basal half of the hairs dark 

 grayish-brown. 



Dimensions. Head and body about two and one-fifth inches ; 

 tail about the same ; forearm about one and three-fourths inch. 



