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4. Spectrum epularium Ramsay. 



On N. G. only known from Katau, not very distant from 

 the mouth of the Fly-river ; this typical specimen has 

 been described in 1877 by Ramsay under the name Pte- 

 ropus {Epomops?) epularius. Matschie, 1. c. p. 23, unites 

 this species with others under the head Spectrum, a genus 

 invented by Gray, 1. c. p. 100. 



5. Spectrum hypomelanum Temminck. 



Described by Temminck in 1853 (Esquisses zoologiques 

 sur la cote de Guinee, p. 61) after several specimens from 

 Ternate; it now stands as inhabiting about the whole Ma- 

 layan- and Papuan-Archipelagos, from Engano and Men- 

 tawei-islands, Borneo, Celebes, Halmaheira to the Philippines 

 and the Salomo-islands to the Entrecasteaux-group; more 

 extensive material can make out whether there are hidden 

 perhaps a series of species under the name hypomelanus I 

 Matschie, 1. c. p. 23, suggests that hypomelanus Temm., 

 griseus Cuv., pallidus Temm., Tomesii Pet., ocularis Pet., 

 condorensis Pet., fuscus Dobs., lombocensis Dobs, and natalis 

 Thomas ''gehören zu einer und derselben Art und nicht 

 einmal als geographische Abarten getrennt werden können." 

 Also known from the Huon-bay, Eastern N. G. — 

 Matschie, 1. c. p. 23, brought Pteropus hypomelanus Temm. 

 under Gray's genus Spectrum, 



6. Nyctemene cephalotes Pallas. 



Pallas called the species Vespertilio cephalotes ; the 

 authors have been very unlucky in trying to give it a 

 generic title, so that we find it named Cephalotes Pallasii, 

 Harpyia Cephalotes^ Cynopterus ( Uronycteris) albiventer, Har- 

 pyia Pallasii, Cephalotes cephalotes and Gelasinus, a generic 

 name without description and never published as such, 

 but given by our travellers in M. S. ; lately it has been 



Notes from the Leyden Museum, Vol. XXVIII. 



