46 B0XI3ETXrS CELEBENSIS. 



very closely allicil to lu ampJe.vlccmdaUis, dilleriiig only in its 

 smaller size, i)roportionally smaller ears, slenderer rostrum, de- 

 ciduous p\ and (as a rule) narrower interspace between c and p'. 

 T!ie western limits of its range (islands VV. and S.W. of Nevv 

 Guinea) remain to be detei-mined ; a specimen in the Genoa 

 Museum from Amboina (collected by 0. Beccari, and examined by 

 the present w liter) is E. hrac/ii/otis, but its alleged occurrence in 

 Celebes (Jentink, Notes Leyden Mus. v. ]>. ITo, l^So) probably 

 rests on confusion with a distinct species {JL cfle/>e)i.sis, infra). 



a. 2 ^^- sl^-' Unlie of York I. ]{,ev. J. Brown 77.7.18.3. 



skuU. !<.'.]. ( 7//;?P of species.) 



b. Jup.sk.; Duke of York I. Ee.v. J. Brown 77.7. 1«.4. 



skull. [C.]. 



c. cJad. sk-; Duke of York I. Rev. J. Brown 7.S.15.5. 



skull. [C.]. 



d-e 2jun. sks. ■ Fauro, Solomons ; 0. M. Woodfortl, S7. 1.18.4-5. 



'skulls. Mmv 18S(;. Esq. [C.]. 



/. Jun. sk. Gn;ul'i,,!can:u-, J. Meek, Esq. [0.]. 1.11..5.4. 

 Solomons ; 12 May, 

 I'JUl. 



9. B,ousettiis celebensis, A'. An J. 



CiinoiiUctcris ample.ricnuihitd, (pt. ), Dobsou, Gat. 

 Chir. B. M. p. 73. 



Cyiionycteris amplexicaudata (pt., nee Geof.}, Dohson, J. A. S. B. 



xlii. pt. ii. p. 20:^ (187-5 : Celebes); Jentink, Cat. Osteul. Mamm. 



p. 2C>S (1887: Celebes); id., Vat. >Si/d. Mamm. p. 150(1888:, 



Celebes); Trim/'snart, Cat . Mumvu i. \). S-i (1697 : Celebes). 

 Roiisettus amplexieaudatus (pt.), Trouesmrt, Cat. Mamm.. .Snpjil. 



p. GO (1904: Celebes). 

 Cvuoptenis (Cvnonvcteris) amplexieaudatus (pt.). Truuef<mrt, Jiur. 



">S- Mm/. y<wL(3} vi. p. 206 (1878: Celebes). 

 Cyiionycteris bracbyotis (nee Dohs.), Jentink, Note--> Leyden 3f)i.'<. v. 



■p. 17;j (1883 : N. Celebes) ; Trouessart, Cat. Manaa. i. p. 84 (pt.) 



(1897: Celebes). 

 Xantbarpyia bracbyoti.s (pt.), Mat.schie, Mer/ackiroptera, p. 68 (1899: 



Celebes). 

 Kousettns bracbvotis (pt.), Troncsfiaii, Cat. Mamm , Snppl. p. 60' 



(1904: Celebe.^). 

 Cvnonvcteris minor {nac Dobs.), Hickson, A Naturalist in A'. Cclchcs, 



'p. 84 (1889: Tali.s.se I.). 

 Xantbarpyin minor, A. B. Meyer, Abli. 3Lis. Dresden, vii. no. 7, 



p. ^(iNgO: X. Celebes, iSangbir). 

 R-ousettus celebensis, K. Andersen, Ann. Sf Mag. iV. IL. (7) xix. 



p. 509 (June 1, 1907: Mt. jMasarang, Celebis). 



Diagnosis. — Bony palate narrower than in any of the foregoing 

 si)ecies; last jjremolar and molars, above and below, unusually 

 narrow. Eur longer and richer ; notopatagium partly (or wholly) 

 hairy ; general size small. Forearm 72-5-7 >'> nim. 



,'^l-ull. — General size as in Ii. ani2ih.ricau</alas; rostrum very 

 low and slender; premaxillaries in simple contact in front ; bonv 



