710 nyciimknt: ma.tok. 



(jreneral colour of back pale brownish drab, somewliat warmer in 

 tinge laterally along membranes, and with a well-defined narrow, 

 dark seal-brown spinal stripe ; individual hairs seal-brown at base, 

 drab or brownish drab or brownish Isabella for terminal half or 

 two-thirds. Nape of neck greyer, head more inclining to palo wood- 

 brown. Chest, breast, and middle of belly pale raw-umber (or dark 

 tawny-olive), this colour gradually shading into pale fawn-brown on 

 flanks and anal region. 



$ ad. skin, Kiriwina, February (96.11.5.1) : Scarcely differing 

 in colour from females of N. ceplialotes (p. TOG), 



Measurements. On pp. 718, 720, 722. 



Specimens examined. Those catalogued below. 



Type in collection. Skull, total length ?, mandible 26'8, c-m' 



(crowns) 12-3, forearm 70"5, third metacarpal 50-5, tibia 2<) mm. 



a. [(j'Jad. sk. ; skull. S. of Huon Gulf, Dr. P. Comrie 7G.7.5.10. 



B. ^evi Guiuea. [C.]. 



{Ti/pc of species.) 

 b [5]ad. ale. ; skull. Kii-iwina I.; 17 A. S. Meek [0.]. 96.11.5.1. 



Feb. 1895. 



c. Ad. skull. Goodenoughl. B. Thomson, 89.6.3.1. 



Eisq. [G. & P. ]. 



d. cS iicl. al. ; skull. Fergusson I. A. S. Meek [C.]. 95.5.S.1. 



8. Nyctimene major, Dohson. 

 • -Ilarpyia major (pt.), Dobson, Cat. Chir. E. M. p. 89. 



Harpyia major, Dobson, P. Z. S. 1877, p. 117, figs. 1, 2, 2a (head; 

 .skiill ; lower teeth) (1 June, 1877: Duke of York I.) ; id., Cat. 

 Chir. B.M. p. 90, specimens b, c (1878); Trouesmrt, liev. i,- 

 May. Zool. (3) vi. p. 207, u. 329 (pt.) (1879) ; 11. Allen, Proc. 

 Ac' Nat. Sc. Philad. 1889, p. 338 (wing-membraues) ; Floicer Sf 

 LydekJcer, Mamm. p. 653, fig. 303 (head ; copy from Dobson) 

 (1891) ; Trouessart, Cat. Mamm. i. p. 87, n. 409 (pt.) (1897). 



Cephalotes major. Palmer, Proc. Biol. Hoc. Wash. xii. p. 114 (1898) ; 

 Trouessart, Vat. Mamm. ii. p. 1277 (1899). 



Gelasinus [BdelygmaJ major (pt.), Matschie, Megachir. p. 84 (1899 : 

 New Britain) ; Trouessart, Cat. Mamm., Suppl. p. 64, n. 552 

 (1904). 



Edelygma major, Elliot, Cat. Mamm. Field Col. Mus. p. 495, n. 872 

 (1907 : Dulse of York I.). 



Nyctymene major, Thomas, Ann, 8,- May. N. H. (7) xiv. p. 197 

 (1904 : mea.surements of lower jaw) ; Miller, Fam. S)- 6'«;. Bats, 

 p. 76, pi. vii. iig. 2, pi. viii. fig. 2 (teeth) (1907 : Duke of Y*ork 1. ). 



Diagnosis. — Closely allied to i\r. geminus, but larger (see compa- 

 rative measurements, p. 711) ; males differing by the more ash-grey 

 or greyish hair-brown colour of the fur (females pale cream-buffy). 

 Hah. Bismarck Archipelago. 



This species probably represents N. geminus in the Bismarck 

 Archipelago. Membranes in all specimens examined inserted on 

 second toe (middle or distal half of first phalanx). 



