J NEW NTCTIMENE.— LONGMAN. 179 



A NEW NYCTIMENE FROM SOUTH 

 QUEENSLAND. 



By Heber a. Longman, F.L.S., Director. 



(Plate XII.) 



Through the kindly interest of Mr. Henry Tryon, Government Ento- 

 mologist, the Queensland Museum obtained on October 1, 1920, a new species of 

 Nyciimene secured by Mr. D. Lahey at Canungra, near the boundary of our 

 National Park in the Maepherson Range, South Queensland. 



Two species of Nyctimene {N. papuanus and A^. rohinsoni from Cape York 

 and Cooktown respectively) have been previously recorded from North Queens- 

 land, but the occurrence of this genus south of Brisbane is somewhat surprising. 

 Since the publication of Knud Andersen 's masterly Catalogue of the Chiroptera, 

 vol i, by the British Museum authorities in 1912, the determination of our 

 Megachiroptera has been simplified. Fourteen species have been described, the 

 majority being from Papua and the surrounding islands. 



The absence of lower incisors, the presence of tubular nasal appendages, 

 yellow spots in the membranes, a dark dorsal stripe, together with the four 

 circumvallate papillae, form striking and unmistakable generic characteristics. 



NYCTIMENE TRYONI n. sp. 

 Allied to N. rohinsoni 0. Thomas, but readily distinguished by its general 

 larger size, by the smaller and more circular ears, the greater length (chiefly 

 contained in the metacarpal) of the second digit, the longer tibia, the shorter 

 tail, and other features as set out. 



Measured in the flesh, the length from head to tail-tip is 105 mm., and 

 the approximate diameter across wings is 200. 



General colour above smoke-gray (Ridgway) ; bases of the hairs gray: a 

 narrow dark spinal stripe is present ; hairs about 10 mm. in length ; on the 

 ventral surface the prevailing colour is fawn, but the tips of the hairs give a 

 silver-gray effect; the fur on the flanks and to the proximal third of the fore- 

 limbs becomes fulvous. The characteristic yellow spots of the genus are sparsely 

 distributed on the membranes, but are not so large as in our specimens of 

 pajnianus and geminus. 



The ears are evenly rounded, and the antero-lateral margin is scalloped. 

 The tongue has the typical four circumvallate papillae, the posterior pair being 

 much closer together than the anterior ; refleked tridentate papillte are present 

 on the median anterior portion. About 20 ridges are developed on the palate ; 

 with the exception of the anterior ridge, the first 14 are convex, 3 are fairly 

 straight, the posterior ridges being undulating. There appear to be no very 



