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pointed out that the eldest name, given in 1800 by Bech- 

 stein, is Nyctemene. It has been collected in Celebes, Ter- 

 nate to N. G. and New Pommern; on N. G, from Andai 

 and Mansinam, Arfak Mts., Stefansort on the Astrolabe- 

 bay and Milne-bay, and on the South Western part atSkroe, 

 collected in 1897 for the Leyden-Museum by Mr. Schaedler. 



7. Nyctemene albiventer Gray. 



Cynopterus (Uronycteris) albiventer is the name given 

 by Gray (P. L. Z. S. 1862, p. 262) to a bat from Morotai, 

 collected by Wallace ; this bat has lateron been brought 

 in the Cephalotes-grouY) as being a Cephalotes cephalotes- 

 specimen; Thomas (1900, Ann. Mag. N. H. Vol. V, p. 217) 

 distinguished among the so-called Cephalotes cepAa/o^es- speci- 

 mens some ones with smaller forms and said that the 

 British-Museum possesses of these latter ones examples from 

 Morty island, Admirality islands. Key islands, British 

 N. G., and Cape York; they represent specimens of Gray's 

 old species albiventer. So that, if Thomas is right, we have 

 a new species of the Cephalotes-gxon^ to enregister in N. G. 

 viz: Nyctemene albiventer Gray from British N. G. 



8. Bdelygma major Dobson. 



Like the foregoing genus, this genus figures in Matschie's 

 book, 1. c. p. 84, as a subgenus; Matschie has bestowed 

 upon it the subgeneric name of Bdelygma for the reception 

 of a single species (major), which up to 1877 had been 

 confounded with the foregoing species cephalotes. Found from 

 Misool to Duke-of- York-island, New Ireland and the Salomo- 

 islands f ) ; in N. G. it has been found on the south of 

 the Huon-gulf. 



f) Oldfield Thomas described a specimen, old male, from Woodlark-islands, 

 E. of N. G., as Nyctemene major lullulae (Ann. Mag. N. H. 1904, Vol. XIV, 

 p. 197). Like major but smaller (Thomas). 



Notes from the Leyden IMuseum, Vol. XXVIII. 



