N'r'riMijxt; Ai;i,r.o. 



715 



12. Nyctimene aSllo, Tlws. 



Ilarpyia major {nee Dobson), Jentink, Cat. Ost. Mamni. p. 267 



(1887 : Mvsol) ; id., Cat. Sijst. 3Iamm. p. 156 (1888 : Mysol). 

 Cephalotes aello, Thomas, Ann. S, Mag. N. H. (7) v. p. 216 (1 Fi;b. 



1900: Milne Bay). 

 Gelasinus [Bdelj'gmal aello, Tronesmrt, Cat. Mamm., SuppL, p. 64, 



n. 5o3 (1904). 

 Njctvmene aello, Thomas, Ann. Sf Mag. N. II. (7) xiv. p. 198 (1904) ; 



Miller, Fam. i^- Gen. Bats, p. 76 (1907). 

 Bdeljgma aello, Jentink, Notes Leijd. Mua. xxviii. p. 166 (1006). 



Diar/nosis. — Size large (forearm 81*5—S4 mm.), breadth of spinal 

 irtripo about one-third that of furred area of back. Hah. New 

 Guinea (Milne Bay) and Mysol. 



A peeuliar species, distinguishable at a glance from all others by 

 its very broad spinal stripe, the seal-brown colour of which stands 

 out in strong contrast to the general light bufiy-woodbrown tinge 

 of the back. Premaxilla; more proclivoiis than in other species 

 (fig. G4), their alveolar branches lower (less expanded vertically) ; 

 orbits unusually large ; zygomata more widely expanded, postorbital 

 processes longer and stouter than in the other large species, frisntal 

 sinuses slightly less inflated, coronoid process narrower and nioro 

 sloping backward, its front margin with hardly any trace of a keel 

 for the insertion of the temporal muscle (compare N. r/emimis, p. 709), 



Fig. (')4. — A, rostrum of Kycthnene aello (type skull), to show proclivous 

 premasillnp and canines, as compared with B, yyctimene scitulua 

 (type skull). 



f (linear). 



masseter arising chiefly from ventral surface of zygomatic process 

 of maxillary (in the species of the geminus typo extending its origin 

 iipward over nearly the whole of the external surface of the bone), 

 angular process of mandible only very slightly bent outward. 

 Dental characters essentially unmodified, but upper and lower canines 

 decidedly longer, and the upper (in conformance with proclivity of 

 extremity of rostrum) slanted slightly more forward than usual ; 

 secondary cusp of upper canines obsolescent or completely absent ; 



