AND ODONTONYCTERIS. 141 



This specimen, although externally — as far as can be 

 judged after ^a dried skin — so alike to a Macroglossus- 

 species, belongs indeed to a quite different genus, as it 

 has 2 molars {on each side an upper molar) more than 

 any of the other hitherto described members of the Macro- 

 glossiue-group ! It is a great pity that there is no alco- 

 holic specimen known from this form, so that the descrip- 

 tion will remain incomplete, however the above named 

 character is so radical, that I am induced to regard upon 

 it as the type of a new genus and a new species, with 

 the dental formula: I. |, C. j, P. |, M. | = 36; the other 

 genera are: 



Macroglossus, I. 2, C. 1, P. |, M. | = 34, 



Syconycteris, I. 2, C. |, P. |, M. f = 34, 



Eonycteris, I. |, C. |, P. |, M. | = 34, 



Melonycteris, I. f, C. |, P. |, M. | = 34, 



Megaloglossus, I. |, C. |, P. |, M. | = 34, 



Callinycteris, I. |, C. |, P. |, M. | = 32, 



Nesonycteris, I. |, C. |, P. |, M. | = 32, 



Notopteris, I. f, C. j, P. |, M. f = 28. 



I call the genus Odontonycteris and the species Meyeri^ 

 in honour of my friend Dr, A. B. Meyer, who brought the 

 specimen home from his scientific expedition to Tabukan, 

 Great Sangi, in 1871. 



Keeping in view the great variation in colour of the 

 members of the Macroglossine-group, I think it better to 

 enter not in details of the description of the colour of this 

 species ; however I should say that the upperparts are of 

 a reddish brown, redder shading towards the sides of body 

 and the extremities ; underparts with much shorter hairs 

 and of a whitish colour slightly tinged with roseate brown, 

 browner towards the extremities. Wing-membrane from the 

 base of the fourth toe like in the true Macroglossus-species. 



Upperjaw, Incisors small, distant, the middle ones some- 

 what wider apart than they are from the outer ones, the 

 latter separated from the canines by a still larger interval; 



Notes from the Leyden JMuseum, "Vol. XXIII. 



