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the foregoing forms. In point of size there may be an absolute, 

 though in any ease small, difference between major aud its nearest 

 geographical neighbour, papnana (New Guinea) ; but crassa (Tro- 

 briand and D'Entrecasteaux Islands) is intermediate. 



Specimens examined. Five, viz. those catalogued below and three 

 specimens from Amboina in the Leyden Museum {Ic, I, m). 



lianc/e. Probably generally distributed over the Amboina group 

 of islands ; so far recorded from Amboina and Ceram. 



Type in collection. Skull, total length 29'8, mandible from 

 condyle 22-2, cm' (crowns) 9-3 ; p*, length 1-3, breadth 0-9 ; 

 forearm 49, third metacarpal 38; ear, length from orifice 15, greatest 

 breadth (tiattened) lO'o ; tibia 19 mm. 



a. cJ ad. al. ; sk-ill. Amboina. F. Muir, Esq. [P.]. 10.7.2.5.1. 



{Type of subspecies.) 

 ''. cJ ad. sk. ; skull. Cevum ; 1859 {Dr. A. Tomes Coll. 7.1.1.272. 



R. Wallace). 



2. Syconycteris australis. Pet. 

 Macroglossus minimus (pt.), Dobson, Cat. Chir. B. M. p. 96. 



Macroglossus minimus var. australis, Peters, MB. Ak. Berlin, 1867 

 (10 Jan.), p. l^j (Rockhampton). 



Macroglossus australis, Peters, MB. Ak. Berlin, 1867 (19 Dec), 

 p. 871 (" W. Australia," evidently error for N. Australia) ; 

 Oyilhy, Cat. Auxtr. 3Ia7nm. p. 81 (pt.) (1892: " N. and W. Aus- 

 tralia," loealitie'! copied from Dobson, see below) ; Trouessart, 

 Cat. Mamm. i. p. 90, n. 487 (pt.) (1897). 



Macroglossus [Syconycteris] au.stralis, Matschie, Megachir. p. 99, 

 pi. xiv. (type : animal, skull, palate-ridges) (1899). 



Carponvcteris [Svconycteris] australis, Trouessart, Cat. Mamm., 

 Siippl. p. 65, n.561 (1904). 



Svconvcteris australis, K. Andersen, Ann. Sf Maq. N. II. (8) vii. 

 "pp. 642, 643 (1911 : revision). 



Macroglossus minimus (pt., nee E. Geoff'.), Dobson, Cat. Chir. B. M. 

 p. 96 (1878 : " N. and W. Australia," localities evidently copied 

 from Peters, 11. c. 1867) ; Collett, Zaol. Jahrh. ii. p. 845 (1887 : 

 Mackay) ; Noack, Zool. Jahrb., Syst. iv. p. 212 (1889). 



Diafyrnosis.— Similar to 8. crassa papuana, but cheek-teeth 

 narrower, more linear (as in Macroglossus), a character particularly 

 conspicuous in p\ m', p^, and m,, which are only about half as 

 broad as long. Forearm 39 (■?)-40'5 mm. 



Measurements. On pp. 782-784. 



Specimens examined. Two, the type (skull not seen), and skin 

 with skull of an adult specimen from Mackay, Queensland, in the 

 Christiania Museum (see Collett, I. c), — apparently the only speci- 

 mens on record. 



Range. Queensland (Mackay and llockhampton). 



Type, in the Berlin Museum, S subad. al. (nearly, if not quite, 

 full-grown, bvit with unconsolidated finger joints), skull extracted 

 {fig. cit.), Rockhami)ton, acquired from the Godcffroy Museum : 

 external measurements on p. 782. 



