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ON THE NEW-GUINEA MAMMALS. 163 



found iu the mountainous interior of the Philippines, may 

 be a warning against useless and premature judgements 

 and conclusions ! 



Chiroptera. 



1. Eunycteris papuana Peters et Doria. 



Described (Ann. del Mus. Civ. di Stor. Nat. di Genova, 

 1880, Vol. XVI, p. 690) by Peters and Doria as a variety 

 of Pteropus melanopogon and based upon an adult female 

 collected by Beccari at Mansioam. In the Catalogue of 

 Monkeys, Lemurs and Fruit-eating Bats, 1870, Gray created 

 the new genus Eunycteris, with a single species phaiops 

 =z melanopogon. Matschie (Die Megachiroptera des Berliner 

 Museums, 1899, p. 11) introduced Gray's genus as a 

 subgenus, with i. a. the papuana-variety as a species, from 

 the following localities: Gebeh, Mansinam, Andai (N. W. 

 N. G.), Loloki and Constantinhafen (N. E. N. G.). In the 

 Leyden Museum is a specimen from Port Moresby (S. 

 E. N, G.). As Gebeh is an island between Halmaheira and 

 WaaigeoQ, Andai a locality near Doreh on the Doreh-bay, 

 Mansinam on the Groote (Great) Geelvink-baai, we con- 

 clude that Eunycteris papuana presently is known over an 

 enormous area, viz. from Gebeh along the northern, north- 

 eastern and south-eastern coast of N. G. to Port Moresby. 



2. Pteropus chrysauchen Peters. 



This species is distributed over all the islands westward 

 from N. G. to Halmaheira. It seems that the single locality 

 on N. G. is Doreh (Laglaize). In Dobson's Catalogue 

 mentioned as: Hah. Pinou-island, Macluer-Bay. 



3. Pteropus conspicillatus Gould. 



Besides other localities in the South and East of N. G. 

 this species is known from Bongu and Madang, German 

 N. G. (Matschie). 



Notes from the Leyden JVIuseum, Vol. XXVIII. 



