LEIPONYX BÜTTIKOFERI. 59 



NOTE XV. 



DESCRIPTION OF A NEW AFRICAN BAT, 

 LEIPONYX BÜTTIKOFERI. 



BY 



Dr. P. A. JENTINK. 



January 1881. 



In the family of the Pteropodidae there are three genera 

 in which the claw to the index finger is wanting, viz. 

 Cephalotes , Notopteris and Eonycteris. The first of these 

 genera is represented by two , the others each by a single 

 species. They are distributed in the following manner: Ce- 

 phalotes peronii inhabits the islands of the Austro-Malayan 

 subregion , while Cephalotes minor is to be found in New Gui- 

 nea ; Notopteris macdonaldii is limited to the Fiji-group and 

 Aneiteum-island and Eonycteris spelaea is to be found in 

 caves on the Indian continent (Burma). The Pteropodidae 

 met with by the numerous travellers in the African con- 

 tinent belong without exception to the genera Epomopho- 

 rus and Cynonycteris. Taking these facts into considera- 

 tion I was greatly surprised to find in a small collection 

 of bats, made in Liberia by our travellers Biittikofer and 

 Sala a PteropusAike bat, which did not possess a claw 

 to the index finger and so could not belong to a species 

 of Epomophorus or Cynonycteris, This species differing 

 in many points from the other species without a claw to 

 the index finger , I am obliged to regard our specimen as 

 the type-species of a new genus, which I propose to call 



Notes from the Leyden IMuseun^, Vol. III. 



