762 MACROGLOSStJS LAGOCHILIIS. 



c. J acl. sk. ; Seinangko Pass, A. L. Butler, Esq. 1.3.9.2. 

 skull. Sekngor,2800'; [P.]. 



Nov. 1900. 

 c7. cJ imm. al.; Nias. Dr. Bleeker [C.]. 80.1.17.1. 



skull. 

 <■,/ c? irara., 2 ad. Lid(h de Jeude 67.4. 12.33r., 380. 



al. Coll. 



(/. Ad.sk.; skull. Java. lion. E. ludia Co. 41a. 



[P.]. 

 h-L (S ad., 2 2 ad., Mringen, Willis Baron A. v. lliigel 79.11.15.0-9. 

 C? pull, al, ; Mts., Kediri, [P.]. 

 skulls of nos. Java, 2-3000'; 

 6-8. March-May, 



1878. 

 /. 2ad. al. W. Java (6'«^ W.E.Balston.Esq. 9.1.5.896. 



a Shorfyklge). [P.]. 

 m,n.2 2 ad. sks. ; Tasikmalaja, W.E.Balston.Esq. 9.1.5.139,110. 



skulls. Preanger, [P.]. 



Java, 1145' ; 

 25, 26 Dec. 

 .1" 1907((?.C.S.). 



2. Macroglossus lagocMlus, Matschie. 



Macro(jlossus minimus (pt.), Dobson, Cat. Chir. B. il. p. 96. 



(Synonyms under tlie subspecies.) 



Diagnosis. — Median vertical groove on upper lip sharply defined ; 

 forearni 37-44-5 mm. Hab. The whole of Austro-Malaya (thus 

 far no record from the Gilolo group of islands), extending west 

 to Philippines and Borneo. 



Nares directed half outward and half forward ; internarial groove 

 deep and always continued downward as a sharply defined groove 

 right to margin of upper lip ; lateral groove on upper lip (one on 

 either side of median groove, at a distance of about one millimetre) 

 always well-pronouncod, sometimes converted into a notch in 

 margin of lip. Membranes usually inserted on fourth toe (base of 

 first phalanx), in some individuals rather between third and fourth, 

 or distinctly on third. 



Colour of fur as in 31. minimus, though with a tendency of the 

 underparts and the base of the fur of the upperside to average 

 lighter. 



Subsjjecies. — A line drawn north-south between the Moluccas 

 and New Guinea divides the area inhabited by this species into a 

 western and eastern half. Tlie islands of the western half, viz. 

 Borneo, the Philippines, Sanghir Islands, Celebes, and Moluccas, 

 are occupied by one race (M. I. hir/ochilus) in which the premolars 

 and molars are not more reduced in breadth than in M. minimum ; 

 those of the eastern half, viz. Mysol, New Guinea, the Bismarck 

 Archipelago, Key, Aru, Torres Straits, and Solomon Islands, by 

 three races (nanus, 2'^lfg^ii'^'^us, and microtus), which, all taken 

 together, are characterized, as against M. I. lagocMlus, by still 

 narrower cheek-teeth, and distingui,shable from each other by 

 average differences in the length of the rostrum or size of the 

 ears. 



