144 RECORDS OF THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM. 



TV.—URONYGTERIS CEPHALOTES, PALLAS. 



On the mainland of Australia this peculiar and unmistakeable 

 Bat has been recorded only from Cape York, and the evidence of 

 its occurrence on the Continent rests apparently on a specimen in 

 the British Museum. It is pleasing therefore to record further 

 examples, one from Queensland, received from Mr. George Hislop, 

 who secured it on the Bloomfield River, near Cooktown, in 1897, 

 and another within the limits of our own State, which was obtained 

 under rather curious circumstances. On the 6th April last Mr. 

 Henry R. Elvery forwarded the Bat from Alstonville on the 

 Richmond River, remarking that he had never observed anything 

 like it before, and that it was taken by Mr. A. 0. Ponton who 

 caught it on a barbed wire fence. 



In his catalogue, Dobson^ used the name Harpyia, Illiger(1811), 

 for this genus, but Ogilby- pointed out that it had been bestowed 

 by Ochsenheimer, the preceding year, in Insecta; he therefore 

 reverted to Uronycteris, Gray (1862). Two years ago Trouessart^ 

 again used Harpyia, but later ^ adopted Cephalotes, Geoff. (1810), 

 preoccupied by Dumeril in Fishes (1806). I do not see that any 

 name other than Uronycteris can be used for this bat. 



EDGAR R. WAITE, 



1 Dobson— Brit. Mas. Cat., Chiroptera, 1878, p. 41. 



2 Ogilby— Aust. Mas. Cat., xvi., Mam., 1892, p. 81. 



3 Trouessart— Cat. Mam., i., 1898, p. 87. 

 * Trouessart— Loc. cit., ii., 1898, p. 1277. 



