2 CATALOGUE OF MAMMALS FROM NEW GUINEA. 



thin, sooty-black, bald ; thumb slender, of two subequal joints ; the 

 intorfcinoial nicnibranc broad, truncate at the end ; the hind lec;s 

 slender, rather elonjiate ; feet slender, enveloped in the membrane 

 to the base of the slender equal compressed toes ; the heel-bones 

 elongate, longer than the foot ; tail elongate, slender, attached, and 

 extending a little beyond the end of the truncated interfemoral mem- 

 brane. 



Cutting teeth -^ ; upper large, chisel-shaped, separated by a 

 small space from each other and from the canines ; the lower small, 

 crowded, three-lobed ; canines conical ; grinders ? 



The specimen is unfortunatelj' rather injured about the face ; but 

 it apj)eavs quite distinct in form from any of the Ilorse-shoc Bats I 

 have hitherto observed. 



This species appears to be quite distinct from Ilipjwsuleros 

 speoris of Timor, which is described as being a little larger than the 

 larger Enghsh Horse-shoe Bat, Phyllorhina hifer ; it has the follow- 

 ing synonyma : — 



VespertiUo speoris, Schneid. iu Schreb. Siiugth. t. 59 B. ; Shaw, 

 Zool. i. 14 7. 



lihinolophus marsvpiaUs, Geoff. Cour. 180."). 



Rhitwlophus speoris, Geoff. Ann. Mus. xx. 2G1. t. 5. 2GG ; Desm. 

 N. D. H. N. xl. 3GS; Mam. 120; Fischer, Mam. 139. 



Rhinolophe crum6ni/ere, Peron & Lesueur, Voy. aux Terres Aust. 

 Atlas, i. t. 35. 



Hab. Timor {Peron and Lesueur'). 



It is certainly distinct from Hipposideros insignis. Gray, Mag. 

 Zool. & Bot. ii. 492, the Rhinolophus insignis, Horsf. Java, J^esp. 

 cydope, Deschamps, MSS., from Java, which Fischer confounded 

 with the former, and which has acute cars on the sides of the face, 

 numerous lamellse under the front part of the nose-leaf, and is 

 13^ inches in expanse of wings. 



Pteropus argentatus. 



Pteropus argentatus. Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1858. 



Back white, with scattered black hairs ; beneath yellowish ; face 

 grey, nakedish ; head deeper yellow-grey, with black interspersed 

 hairs ; collar broad, bright red-chestnut, darker brown at the sides 

 and under side, where the hair is longer, forming a kind of ruff ; 

 ears and membranes (when dry) black. 



Hab. Aru Island {Wallace). 



a. Female. Aru IsLand, 



" Back of a silky or silvery shining white, very beautiful in the 

 freshly killed animals." — Wallace. 



