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Length : head and body 2’.9; head 1’.25 ; forearm 2”.2 ; 2nd 
finger 4”.0. 
2. MM. speleus, Dobson. 
Head long ; muzzle narrow, pointed ; tongue very long; index 
finger without a claw ; a prominent, subcutaneous gland on each 
side of the anal opening ; fur short, dark-brown. 
Length : head and body 4”.2; tail 0’.45; head 1”.55 ; forearm 
2”.75 ; 2nd finger 4”.6. 
3. Phyllorhina Nicobarensis, Dobson. 
Head long ; muzzle obtuse ; nose-leaf with three small points on 
its anterior margin, the transverse portion erect, forming an are of 
a circle, rolled back on itself and overhanging the concave base 
which is divided into two cells by a single longitudinal fold. Wing 
membranes attached to base of metacarpal bone of outer toe. 
Length : head and body 8”.0 ; tail 1”.7 ; forearm 2”.5 ; tibia 1”.0. - 
4, Asellia Stoliczkana, Dobson. 
Fars acutely pointed, outer edge doubly emarginate immediate- 
ly below the tip ; nose-leaf large, transverse portion erect, upper 
part of crest tri-acuminate, in form like an isosceles triangle with 
an obtuse vertical angle, having its apex divided into three points 
by two narrow incisions, perpendicular to the base. Fur pure 
white, with purplish-brown tips, beneath dirty-white. 
Length: head and body, 1”.6; tail 0”.6; forearm 1”.52; 2nd 
finger 2”.6. 
The discovery of the new species of Macroglossus leads to the 
necessity of an important change in the classification of the Ptero- 
pine bats, as proposed by Dr. Peters of Berlin. 
Dr. Peters has devoted, perhaps, more attention to the examina- 
tion of this interesting order than any other living naturalist, and 
his generalisations have, accordingly, been, I believe, very exten- 
sively accepted. In the Vol. of the monthly Proceedings of the 
Berlin Academy for the year 1867, page 865, he arranges the genera 
of the Pteropine bats (with the exception of Pteropus, of which he 
enumerates the species in a former paper in the same volume)— 
thus :— 
