698 KTcxniESf: PArcANtrs. 



1. Nyctimene papuanus, K. A,i:I. 



Harpyia cefhnlotes (pt.), Dal)son, Cat. Cliir. B. M. p. 88. 



Harpvia cephalotes (nee Pallas), Dobson, Cat. Chit'. B. 31. p. 89, 

 specimen c (1878 : Cape York) ; id., F. Z. S. 1878, p. 875 ( 1879 : 

 New Guinea) ; Troiiessart, Rev. i^ Mm/. Zoul. (8) vi. p. 207, 

 n. 3l'8 (pt.) (1879) ; irj., Cat. Mamin. i. p.' 87, n. 408 (pt.) (1897) ; 

 Hclki; Ahh. Mus. Dresden, vi. n. 8, p. 4 (pt.) (1897). 

 Urouycteris cephalote.?, Offilbi/, Cat. Ausf.r. Mamm. p. 81 (1892) ; 

 ? fkoman, Ami. Mm, Civ. Genom, (2) .wiii. p. «0S (1897 : liara 

 Eara, Milne Bay). 

 Ceplialotes ceplialotes (pt.), Troiiessart, Cat. Mamm. ii. p. 1277 



(1899). 

 Gelnsiuus ceplialotes, Matschie, Mef/achir. p. 83 (pt.) (1899 : Andai ; 

 Jiismarok Arch.) ; id., Krieger^s Neu-Ouinea, p. 77 (1899) ; 

 Trouesmrt, Cat. Mamm., Suppl. p. 63, n. 651 (pt.) (1904). 

 Nyctemene ceplialotes, Jentink, Notes Leyd. Mus. xxviii. p. 1G4 



(190:; : Skru, S.W. New Guinea). 

 Cephalotea albiventer (pt., nee Gray), Thomas, Ann. 8f May. N. H, 

 (7) V. p. 217 (1900; IJ. New Guinea; Key la. ; Admiralty Is. ; 

 Ciipe York). 

 Nyctvmene albiventer (pt.), Thomas, Ann. Sf May. K. H. (7) xiv. 

 *p. 197 (1904) ; Jentink, Notes Leyd. Mus. xxviii. p. 165 (1906) ; 

 Miller, Fam. ^- Gen. liat'^, p. 76 (1907). 

 Nyctimene papuanus, K. A/idersen, Ann. 4' May, N. II. (8) vi. p. 621 

 (1 Dec. 11)10: New Guinea; Key Is. ; .'X.dmiralty la. ; Bismarck 

 Arch. ; Cape York). 



Diagnosis. — Size small : forearm 54"5-59 mm. ; m' and m, sub- 

 equal in size to respectively p' and p^ ; inner cu.sp of p^ not 

 completely fused with outer ; cais trianjjularly rounded oif above ; 

 membranes usually from second toe ; colour of back not distinctly 

 mottled with dark brownish tips to the hairs; dorsal stripe 

 well-defined along the whole of the back, about 3'o-5 mm. broad 

 (about ^ of furred area of back) ; sides of neck, bieast, and 

 belly much brighter in males than in females, but scarcely any 

 sexual dilferencein the colour of tlie upj>erside. Ilcih. New Guinea 

 generally (localities p. 699, under the heading "Specimens ex- 

 amined''); Key Is.; Admiralty Is.; Bismarck Arch.; Cape York. 



In eleven individuals examiued (representing all the localities 

 noted above) the wing membrane is inserted on the first phalanx of 

 the second toe, in two (Skru and Bismarck Archipelago) distinctly 

 on the interdigilal membrane between that phalanx and the first 

 phalanx of the third toe, and in one (Bismarck Archipelago) on the 

 first phalanx of the third toe. There is no a])i)reciable sexual 

 diftereuce in pi?!e(fol"earm of eight adult males 54*5—59, average 56-3 ; 

 of five adult females 54-5-58'5, average o6"4 mm.). 



Four species of Nyctimene are known from New Guinea, papuami.t, 

 o/clotis. (/ennints, and aelln. N. papnanifn is so much smaller than 

 ^V. (jemiuus (forearm 70'5-77 mm.) and N. aello (81-5-84) that a 

 con fusion -.\ ith these is hardly po.^sible. From the snuill N. cyclods 



