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])Oculiar elemeui points towards any of the siirroundinf,' islands, 

 the (jtikilo group. Celebes, South West Islands (Timor), .South East 

 Islands (Timor Laut, Key, Aru), and New Guinea, it being in most 

 cases mere conjecture whether the movements have taken place 

 from the Amboina group into the neighbouring group or iu the 

 o[)posite diicction. 



G'dolo ijroup (Morotai, Gilolo, Ternatc, Batjan, &c.). — 4 genera, 

 7 species; but tlie fauna is no doubt more imperfectly known than 

 tliat of the Amboina groiij). Tlie faunistic leanings are moro 

 decidedly toward Celebes than to the Amboina grou[) and New 

 Ciuinea, but a large number of Celtbean genera are absent from the 

 list, viz. lloiisi'ttiis, Boneia, Acerodon, tSti/Ioctenium, C'l/nojiterns, 

 Konijcteris, and Mcici'Of/lonsits; the absence of Iiousettus and Macro- 

 ijlossiis, both generally distributed elsewhere in Indo- and Austro- 

 Malaya, may be due to incompleteness of the I'ecords. As in the 

 case of the Amboina group, no genus is autochthonous. Two species 

 seem to be confined to the (iilolo group, Duhsonia cremtlata (a 

 closely allied species in the Amboina group, viz. I), viridis) and 

 jXiictimcne aJhiventcv (its closest relative iu New Guinea); in 

 addition to tliese, one autochthonous subspecies of Pteropus hiqiO- 

 rtnlamis (other subspecies in CelebcK and New Guinea, but not 

 in the Amboina group). Specimens common with Celebes and 

 Sanghir Islands are, Fieropus caniceps, Ft. 2>erso»a(us, and Thoo- 

 jiierus nigresccns (genus confined to Celebes and the jjresent group). 

 One species is common with N.W. New Guinea, Fieropus clirys- 

 cmcJien, 



New Guinea (including Ghebi, Salawati, Mysol, and Waigeou, 

 but excluding the satellite islands to the north, east, and south).— 

 7 genera, lO species. The genera are tlie same as tliose occurring 

 in the Amboina group, with the single addition of the mono- 

 typic j\lel('»^icteris; but all the species, except one, are different. 

 No genus is strictly confined to New Guinea, the nearest a[i])roach 

 being Jleloin/cteris, wliich is known onl}- from t!.is island and the 

 ])ismarck Archipelago. No zoogeograidiical jirovince has so rich a 

 Nyclimcne fauna, all four natural groups of this genus being repre- 

 sented, and two of the groups (the cijdotis and aello groups) found 

 nowhere else. Six species are autochthonous, viz. Pteropnx cpvlarivs 

 (closely allied to Ft.macroiis from the .\ru Islands), Dobsonia minor 

 (no close relative elsewhere), D. ma<jna (scarcely more than sub- 

 specifically distinct from D. molvccensis from the Amlioina groiij) 

 and Aru Islands), Nyctimene cyclctis and ccrtans (two closely allied 

 peculiar species), and N. acllo (pec\iliar species) ; to these may be 

 added Fteropus papunnvs (doubtfully distinct from Ft. nevhihernicvs 

 from tlie liismarck Archipelago), and Ft. hypomdanus Intciis and 

 jS'i/climene ffeniinvs, both of wliich have spread only to the small 

 islands at the eastern eytremity of New Guinea ; making, at the 

 vcrv highest, nine (piite or nearly autochthonous forms out of a 

 total of sixteen. The dislribution of the seven forms not entirely 



