178 ON THE NEW-GUINEA MAMMALS. 



36. Nyctinomus australis Gray. 



Recorded in Dobsou's Catalogue, p. 434, from New-Guinea, 

 without closer locality, presented by Mrs. Stanley ; that 

 specimen is the type of the species (British-Museum). 



37. Nyctinomus Loriae Thomas. 



Oldfield Thomas (Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova, 1897, p. 609) 

 said that it is closely allied to N. norfolkensis Gray of 

 which it evidently is the Papuan representative, Loria col- 

 lected the typical specimens of the species at New-Guinea, 

 10 from Kamali, close to the mouth of the Kemp Welch- 

 river, on the promontory that ends in Cape Hood, and 5 

 from Aroma, on the sea-coast further east. 



38. Mormopterus astrolabiensis Meyer. 



Described by Dr. A. B. Meyer (Abhandl. Dresden-Mus. 

 1899, 7, p. 19) after a male-specimen from Bongu, Astro- 

 labe-Bay, German New-Guinea. No other specimens are 

 known. 



RODENTIA. 



39. Limnomys asper Thomas. 



This genus, says Thomas, is closely allied to Hydromys but 

 less strongly specialized for aquatic life ; it would seem to be 

 an early development of the Hydromys-iy^e, less modified 

 for aquatic life than in that genus, but showing many 

 characters in common with it (Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 1906, 

 pp. 325 and 326). The type-specimen of L. asper is from 

 Mount-Gayata, Richardson Range, British New-Guinea. 

 Not to confound with Mus asper Miller (Proc. Biol. Soc. 

 Wash. 1900) from Siam a. s. o. 



^otes from the Leyden ]\£useum. Vol. XXVUI. 



