BOfSETTlS BKACnyOTIS. 45 



Cviion7ctfvi.« ani])loxicaii(la(ii {i\t.), I'cfcrs, Mil. Al-ad. />,r!,'n.]fi(u, 



]i. si).") fAiuboina); Jentink, Cut. Si/st. Maiiun. p. 1")1 (]8r!8: 



Aiuboina). 

 Xaiilliiiri)\ia amplexicaiidata (])t.), T'ltziiK/er, SB. Ahod. ]]'ien, Ix. 



Abih. i". lleCr ■■<, p. 470 (1860 : Amb.iiiia). 

 CvnMpii,'ius (1 viioiivcieri.s) airplexicaudatus, Troiiessdrt, Iin\ S; 



' M<i(/. Zi.ul. (?>) vi. p. l'OG(pt.) (1878: Aiuboina). 

 Cvnonvctm-is brachvcti^, I)ofj.<on, P. Z. S. 1877, y. IKi (Duke of 

 'Yoiiv I.); id.,' P. Z. S. 1878, p. 816 (l)uku of Voik I.); 



Th'imns, P. Z. S. 1887, pp. 3i'3, .'5l'7 (Solnmou Is.) ; id., I'. Z. 8. 



1>^f^t<, (ip. 47o, 483,484 (.Soh.iiiun Is.) ; Jcntiiil-, Cat. S'/ft Mcotim. 



p. h")! (1888: Duke of York I.); 'J ruuessart, tat. Mainiu. i. 



p. 84 (pt.) (1^97). 

 C}noptorii.'3 (Cviiouvcteri.s) braclivotis, Truues-sart, liev. 4'- 3/"'/. 



Zool. (3) vi. p. 201') (1878). * 



Xanthai'pyia brachvotis, Mat.'uhie, Mcf/achiropterti, p.fiS (pt.) (1899 : 



New Guinea, New Ireland, .Solomon Is.). 

 Ilousettus braclivotis, Trouessart, Cat. Mamii)., StippL p. 60 (]it.) 



(1904) ; K. Andersen, Ann. if Mar/. X. H. (7) xix. p. .3UD (1907) ; 



Milk-r, Fam. ^- Gen. Bid>:, p. o4 (1C07). 



Diiicjiio^is. — ISiiuilar to JL ampli'dicaxdatus, but smaller, with 

 shorter and narrower ears ; p' deciduous ; toutli-rows shorter. 

 Forearm 70-75 uim. 



k</,ull and teeth.— SliviU averaging smaller tliau in II. amjdt\ci- 

 cniidaius, and with noticeably slenderer rostrum, but otherwise not 

 difl'ering in shape. — p' deciduous * ; it' jiresent, as a rule elostly 

 wedged in between the canine and p'^ ; interspace c-p^ as a rule 

 narrower than in any of tlie foregoing species, the two teeth being 

 occasionally in contact. Cheek-teeth more crowded ; p'' and molars 

 proportionally quite as heavy as (if not heavier than) in li. aiitjjh'.ri- 

 candatus; m., maikedly shorter than m^ ; m^ subcircular in outline, 

 as ill 2i. ample.vicaudatus. 



Palate-rii/(/i's. — ^ + 4+1; one specimen only examined; some 

 slight individual variation may occur. 



E.vternal characters. — General si/e smaller (at least on an average) 

 t\\&n\n It. amj^ilexitaudatus \ see table of measurements. Ears .short 

 and narrow, but scarcely ditiering in form from those of R. amph.vi- 

 caudatus; not attenuated below the tip, the tip itself broadly 

 rounded off; antirragal lobe small, rounded. 



Quality and distribution of fur as in 11. ample.vicaudatus ; tibife 

 practically naked above ; jiro.ximal portion of forearm thinly covered 

 with short hairs. Coloration as in the darkest specimens of 

 Jl. aiujilc.vicandatus. 



Meusurouents. On p. 48. 



Itamje. Amboina ^Genoa Mus.), New Guinea (Berlin Mus.), 

 Bisnuirek Archipdago, fSolomon Islands. 



Tiii>t in collection. 



Remarks. — This, the most eastern representative of the genus, is 



* Details from six skulls: — one jiiT. (not quite full-grown), two youug 

 adults: p' pre.-ent on both sides; one young adult : p' pre.seut ou one side 

 CiAy ; two adults (teeth slightly worn) : p' absent on botli sides. 



