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smaller size, meanwhile the eastwards-ones are darker colo- 

 red and show larger dimensions; as a counterpart to this 

 conclusion, however, Dobson remarked a-propos 15 specimens, 

 adult and young, from Duke-of- York-island, that: "they 

 correspond closely in measurements and other respects 

 with specimens from other parts of the A ustro- Malayan 

 subregion" — and our specimen from Duke of York-island 

 shows just a much blacker color than any other specimen 

 in our collection, meanwhile the dimensions of this indi- 

 vidual agree much more with those of the small Timor- 

 specimens, the lightest colored of all ! 



This bat has been collected in New-Guinea from the 

 following localities: Andai (v. Rosenberg, and apud Heller), 

 Amberbaki fapud Dobson), Jobie (apud Heller), Stefansort, 

 Astrolabe-Bay (Kunzraann), Tamata, near the German 

 frontier (Stalker), and Ighiberei, on the Kemp Welch-river, 

 South-East N. G. (Loria). 



11. Carponycteris nana Matschie. 



Carponycteris is a generic name given in 1891 (An 

 introduction to the study of Mammals, p. 654) by Flower 

 and Lydekker instead of Macroglossus, given in 1825 by 

 Cuvier to the interesting group of bats with exceedingly 

 long, attenuated tongue — the name Macroglossus, according 

 to the named authors, being preoccupied by Macroglossum, 

 bestowed in 1777 by Scopoli upon a genus of Lepidop- 

 tera (Palmer, Index generum mammalium, 1904, p. 393). 

 Si omnes consentiunt, ego non dissentio, although in my 

 ears us and u7n sound quite differently ! The genus has a 

 very large distribution, from Siam through the Malayan- 

 Archipelago to the Salomo-islands; C. nana (Matschie, p. 

 95) is known from North- and South-N. G., the Aroe- 

 islands and Bismarck-Archipelago ; in the Berlin-Museum 



Notes froca the Leyden IVEuseuixi, Vol. XXVIIl, 



