UOBSOXTA. 449 



contact; cheek-teeth g (p' lost). Tail present; index without 

 claw ; wings from spinal line ; notopatfigium practically naked ; 

 ears pointed. Size medium or large: forearm 80-153 mm. 

 [Twelve species, llange, the whole of the Austro-Malayau sub- 

 region. ] 



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Pig. 24. — Dohsonia magna, <^. Ighibirei. Kemp Welch Elver, Britisli 

 New Guinea. No. 97.8.7.5. \. 



Skull (fig. 24). — General aspect Pteropine with the following 

 peculiar modifications: — Premaxillae much reduced, forming two 

 thin rods (breadth suboqual to that of crown of an upppr incisor), 



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