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NYOTIMENE. 



premaxillary suture ia in this genus even one of the earliest 

 cranial sutures to disappear, see fig. 61 P-I, N. papuanus) ; 

 anterior surface of united premaxillte sometimes distinctly pro- 

 clivous (N. atllo, fig. 64, p. 715), as a rule however practically 

 vertical or even retrodivous iu its upper half; nasal branches of 



Fig. 61. — A, B, 0, D, E. Kyciimene scitidus, 5 ad., t>pe of species. 



¥,Gt,'R,l. Nyctimene papuanus, (S sviha.A., Key Islands; no. 99.12.4.1 

 (note short ascending rami of premasilloe (G, I), and absence of 

 inter-premaxillHry suture (I), although most other cranial sutures 

 are unobliterat«d). 



E f (linear), all other figures }. 



preraasillae extremely sliort (fig. 61 G), not nearly reaching nasals 

 (in Cijnopterus and Megachiroptera in general extending upward 

 to meet extremity of nasals). Postdental palate distinctly con- 



