CALLINYCTERIS. 209 



NOTE XL. 



ON A NEW GENUS AND A NEW SPECIES IN THE 

 MACROGLOSSINE-GROUP OF BATS. 



Dr. P. A. JENTINK. 



August 1889. 



(Plate 9, figs. 1, 2, 3, 4). 



A closer study of the Bat exhibited in my » Catalogue 

 systématique des Mauiraifères, 1888, p. 158" as variété 

 insulaire of Eonycteris spelaea forces me to separate it 

 from the named species and to regard it as a new spe- 

 cies belonging to a genus very different from all the hi- 

 therto described genera in the Macroglossine-group. 



Its index-finger is without a claw like in Eonycteris, Ne- 

 sonycteris and Notopteris. It differs from Notopteris by a 

 much shorter tail , by its dentition and by having the 

 wings not from the central line of the back ; it differs 

 from Eonycteris by having the wing-membrane attached to 

 the second toe (not to the first) and by its dentition ; it 

 differs from Nesonycteris by having a well developed tail 

 and another dentition. The following description will show 

 the more differences between the named three genera and 

 my new genus 



C a I liny et e r i s , g. n. 



Muzzle long, narrow, cylindrical; nostrils not projecting; 

 upperlip with a vertical groove dividing the nostrils; lower 

 lip grooved in front. Tongue very long and attenuated. 

 Index-finger without a claw. Metacarpal bone of middle 



Notes from tlie Leyden Museum, Vol. XI. 



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