MACROGLOSSCS UlNlMtTS. 755 



'f^6-—'^^- '• ligochilns, 2 acl, Eiini, 10.3.3.24; an additional iiiipei- molar 

 (" ni3") on right side (accidentally lost during cleaning of skull). 



^^■—M. I. lagochilus, (S ^f\., Burn, 10.3.3.23; an " nr'' " on left side (with 

 what appears to be a newly closed corre,sponding alveolus on ri<rht 

 side) and an " m, " on riijht. ° 



^J;-—^^- '">■ minimus, $ ad., Madura, 10,4.7.2 ; an additional upper molar on 

 both sides. [This is the form of anomaly exhibited by the type of 

 Odontonyctcris majcri, according to .Tentink's description.] 



fig-— '^^- I. Jagochilus, ^ ad., Cagayan Sulu, U.S. Nat. Mus. 125316; an 

 " nr " on both sides and an " m^ " on left (the skull, not the mandible, 

 has been examined by the writer; the presence of a leit "in^" is 

 mentioned by Miller, Fam. & Gen. Bats, p. 72). This specimen was 

 by Miller referred to Odontonycteris* . 



Sijnopsis of tlie Species. 



a. Nares directed more outward tlian 



forward ; median vertical groove on 

 upper lip obsolescent or absent. Fore- 

 arm 40-48-5 mm. (Indo-Chinese and 

 Indo-Malayan subregions, excluding 

 Borneo and Philippines) \. M. minimus, p. 7ou. 



b. Nares directed half outward, half for- 



ward ; median vertical groove on upper 

 lip sharply defined. Forearm 37- 

 44-5 mm. (Austro-Malayan suhregion, 

 including Borneo and Philippines) . . 2. M. layocMlus, p. 702. 



1 . Macroglossus minimus, E. Geoff. 



Macrojlossus mlnimas (pt.), Dobson, Cat. Chir. B. M. p. 96. 



(Sj'uonyms under the subspecies.) 



Diagnosis. — Median vertical groove on upper lip feeble or 

 entirely absent ; forearm 40-4S'5 mm. Hah. Java, cast to Timor, 

 west and north-west to Sumatra, Malay Peninsula, Burma, Siam, 

 and Darjeeling. 



Nares directed much more outward than forward ; internarial 

 groove (perhaps for that reason) shallower than iji AI. lar/ocJiilus, 

 its continuation downward (the median groove) sometimes dis- 

 tinctly traceable as a faint groove right to margin of lip, but more 

 often quite obsolete ; lateral grooves on upper lip, as a rule, ill- 

 defined or even practically absent. Membranes, in all specimens 

 examined, from fourth toe (base of first phalanx). 



Colour. — Adults. Al. m. minbmts, twelve skins (seven males, 

 five females : no appreciable sexual colour-difference), Tjilatjap, 

 Java, dates from 30 Oct. to 10 Dec. : — General colour of back 



* Note the comparative frequency of dental anomalies in Ptcropus scapulatus 

 (antea, p. 405, footnote), a species which is almost Macroglossiue (or perhaps 

 rather Megaloglossine) in the degeneration of thecbeek-teetli. [Compare with 

 Macroff/ossus the Marsupial genus Myrmecohins : degeneration (small size, 

 simplified form) of cheek-teeth associated with a pronounced tendency to 

 development of supernumerary teeth.] 



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