NYCTIMENK GKMINCS. 709 



7. Nyctimene geininus, A', And 



Harjvjia major (pt.), Dobson, Cat. Cliir. B. M. p. S9. 



Harpyia inajor (pt., vi-c Dobson, 1877), Bohson, Cat. Chir. B. M 

 p. 90, .y^ecimen a (1878 : S. of Huon Oulf) ; Trovessart, llev. i,- 



f '^v n«o?^ t'-- P' -"^\"- -^^^ ^1^"^9) ' ^'^*''"^'«' No,K Zool. iii. 

 n' 4«Q n QQ-^ • ^ii''r°'^ I'^-) ; Trouessnvt, Cat. Mamm. i. p. 87, 

 n. 4b9 (189/ ) ; Heller, Ahh. Mm. Dresden, vi. n. 8, p. 4 (1897) 

 Uronycteris major, TAow^^., iV^ap. Zool. ii. p. 1G:3 (1895 : /ergusson I- 



Cephalotts major (pt.), Tnwsmrt, Oit. Mamm. ii. p. 1277 (1899) 



TT . - , , - ^.■.. -.-. p. 165(1906). 



liarpyia cephalotes (nee Pallas), ? Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc N S 



W«/.s.„,. p. 243* (1,^^-9^ Heath I, S.E. New Guinea); ?' Peters 



^ Dona, Ann. Mus. Cw. Genom, xvl p. 690 (1881 : Jlansinam 



(pt')7l"89^^ """• ^ ' ■ ^'""'' ^*^- ^^*- ^'•^^'' ^^- "• 8' P 4 



Nyctimene cephalotes, ^//^of, (?«<. J/a,„„,. F*e« Co/. vlf«s. p. 494 



n. o/i(l9U7: Kiriwma Is.). ' 



Nyctimene geminus, Z". Andersen, Ann. <§- Jfa^. JV; H (8) vi p 6-^'3 



(1 Dec. 1910: New Guinea; Kiriwina I..;''D'Enh-;casteaux Is^: 



i)i«^nom._Similar to K cephalotes, but somewhat larger (fore- 



nrm ,0-.j-,, nim.)and Mith relatively considerably heavier skull 



and eeth Ilab British New Guinea (Huon Gulf) and adjacen 



islands (Trobnand and D'Entrecasteaus Archipclao-os) 



iov some comparative measurements of this species and N.cepha- 

 Jotes see p. ,06. The secondary (external) cusp of the upper canines 

 18 in i^. ^.»n,i(,s (as well as in the related iV. ,»„/or and scitalus) 

 generally more sharply marked off than in N. cephalotes, but spe.i- 

 njens occur (eg N. r,eminus, 76.7.5.10) in which it is practiialiy 

 obsolete ; a notch in the edge of the outer ridge of p , p and m (or 



'Lt^nWvZ f -'''l^i ''''^^' T*^^""" '^'' ndge^m'ore or 'iLss 

 dist.nctly bilobed, is rather more often present and more distinctlv 

 developed in i\.5„mni»s and its closest relatives than in N. cenha- 

 Joles; and the front edge of the coronoid process, near its base is 

 somewhat more expanded (for the insertion of part of the outer 

 layer of the temporal muscle) than in cpJmloles ; but in all these 

 points the difference is scarcely more than one of avera<-e The 

 posterior edge of the bony palate is evenly (semicircularly)%'oncave 

 compare N. scitzdus). Sexual colour difference as in n! cephZe, 

 (males brownish drab, females buffy) ; i„ the colour of the^upper- 

 side the single male skin examined is not essentially different fi-oni 

 cephaoies, but the underside is conspicuously darker. Membranes 

 in all specimens from second toe (middle or distal half of first 

 phalanx). 



Colour.-. s^A. skin, S. of Iluon Gulf, undated (typo of species) .- 

 * Generic tianie misspelt Harin/n. 



