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narrower space between the first and second ridge (owing to the 

 much more anterior position of p^) and the wider space between 

 the fourth and filth. 



Fig. 77. —Xo/.op(eris macdonaldi, (^ . Aneiteutn, New Hebrides. No. 60.7.18.79. 

 I (linear), front view f, outline of dorsal aspect of skull }. 



External characters. — Nares less projecting than in Melonycteris 

 and Nesonycteris ; naked portion of upper lip as in Eonycteris (see 

 p. 7S7). Tongue even longer (about § the length of the mandible) 

 than in other Macroylosnina', but not differing in surface structure. 

 Tibia longer thau in any other Fruit-bat, ecjual to or more than 

 half the length of the forearm (the nearest approximations are 

 found in certain species of Pteropus and in Pvnthetor). Tail much 

 longer than in other Fruit-bats, nearly equal in length to forearm 

 (caudal vertebrae ten), iferabranes arising from median line of 

 back and inserted posteriorly on base of second (or between first 

 and second) metatarsal ; vertical fasciae of mesopatagium as in 

 other Macrofjlossinw (about eight). Second digit without claw, 

 it,8 claw phalanx rudimentary (not distinctly traceable externally), 

 and even the second phalanx a little shorter than usual ; meta- 

 carpals of long digits considerably shorter than in Melnnycteris and 



