790 NESONYCTEEIS. 



more lightened with pale tips to the hairs. The white epaulettes 

 are absent in one female (fully adult, teeth worn, 77.7.18.16), 

 present in the other three specimens examined, two of which are 

 also fem;iles. 



Mensvreinenls. On pp. 806-808. 



iSpeciniens examined. Those in collection. 



Banrje. New Guinea (so far recorded onlj^ from MacCluer Bay) 

 and Bismarck Archipelago (New Ireland ; Duke of York I. ; Mioko ; 

 New Britain). 



Type, in collection. Skull, total length 36, mandible from 

 condyle 25-8, c-m^ (crowns) 12-3, forearm 63, third metacarpal 46, 

 tibia 25 mm. 



Pteropus {Cheiropteruges) alboscapulatus. — Type (presumably in 

 the Sydney Museum), S ad., Duke of York I. ; forearm (according 

 to Eamsay) 63'5 mm. 



a. cJ ad. sk. ; skull. New Ireland. Eev. G. Brown [C.]. 77.7.18.10. 



(Tiipe of species.) 

 6. [ 2 ] ad. sk. in al. ; Duke of York I. Eev. G. Brown [C.]. 77.7.18.16. 

 skull. 



c. 2 ad. al. ; sknll. Mioko I. Dr. 0. Finsch [0.]. 86.7.9.2. 



d. $ ad. al.: skull. Kew Britain. Tring Museum [E.]. 94.7.15.1. 



33. NESONYCTEEIS, Thos. 



Type. 



1887. Nesonycteris, Thomas, A?in. 3,- Mag. N. H. (5) 



xix. p. 147 (1 Feb.) N. woodfordi. 



Nesonycteris, Thomas, I. s. c. (1 Feb. 1887: name estabhshed, no 

 description of genus) ; id., P. Z. .V. 1887, pp. 323, 324 (1 Aug. 

 • 1887 : description ; affinities) ; Flotoer c^ Lydekker, Mamm. 



p. 655 (1891); Winge, E Mus. Lundii, ii. pt. 1, pp. 24, 27, 28, 

 66 (1892 : affinities ; dental formula) ; Matschie, Megachir. 

 p. 91 (1899) ; Miller, Fam. ^- Gen. Bats, p. 74 (1907). 



Diagnosis. — As Melonycteris, but incisors -j-j (i^ lost), index 

 without claw, and underparts not darker than back. Single species 

 known smaller than Melonycteris, but laiger than Macroglossus, 

 forearm 52-53-5 mm. [Hab. Solomon Islands.] 



This is the only tailless Fruit-bat without claw on second digit. 

 It is, further, the only Fruit-bat with the full Megachiropteran 

 number of cheek-teeth (|) and \-\ incisors. Of the seven genera 

 of Fruit-bats [Eousettus, Pteropus, Pieralopex, Dobsonia, Nyctimene, 

 Macroglossus, Nesonycteris) known to occur in the Solomon Islands 

 this is the only form with ?-? incisors; the claw of the second 

 digit is absent in two of these seven genera, Dobsonia (back naked, 

 tail present, subfamily Pteropodina) and Nesonycteris (back clothed, 

 tail absent, subfamily Macroglossince). 



Skull (Qg. 76).— Rostrum relatively slenderer than in Melonycteris; 

 other characters unchanged. 



Dentition (hg. 76). — Dental formula unmodified Megachiropteran, 



