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c Annales du Museum/ vol. xix. (1812) ; Simia azarce appears 

 in the list of South-American monkeys included by Humboldt 

 in his ' Recueil d'Observations de Zoologie,' p. 357. The 

 latter is dated 1811 on the titlepage, but it is evident that 

 page 357 was issued at least in 1812, and after the volume 

 of the 'Annales' for the same year, as the classification and 

 names given by Geoffroy are frequently alluded to by 

 Humboldt in his list. 



Coming now to the Lemuroidea, I find that the ruffed 

 lemur must be called Lemur variegatus instead of varius, the 

 former name dating from 1792, when it was published by 

 Kerr in his ' Animal Kingdom ' as Lemur macaco, var. 

 variegatus, whereas it was only in 1891 that I. Geoffroy 

 first used L. varius *. 



Tarsias tarsier must also be substituted by T. spectrum, as 

 Lemur tarsier was employed by Erxleben in 1777 f, ante- 

 dating therefore the publication of Pallas's name Lemur 

 spectrum (1778) by a year. 



LXX. — Ten new Fruit-bats of the Genera Nyctimene, 

 Cynopterus, and Eonycteris. By Knud ANDERSEN. 



Full descriptions o£ the forms briefly diagnosed in this 

 paper will appear early next year in the British Museum 

 Catalogue of Megachiroptera. 



Nyctimene papuanus, sp. n. 



Size small, forearm 51*5-59 mm. ; m 1 and m x subequal in 

 size to respectively p 4 and p 4 ; inner cusp of p 3 not com- 

 pletely fused with outer; ears triangularly rounded off above ; 

 colour of back not distinctly mottled with dark brownish tips 

 to the hairs ; spinal stripe perfectly distinct along the whole 

 of the back, about 35-5 mm. broad; sides of neck, breast, 

 and belly much brighter in males than in females (but 

 scarcely any sexual difference in the colour of the upperside). 

 Bab. New Guinea generally (specimens examined from 

 various localities in Dutch, German, and British New 

 Guinea) ; Key Is.; Admiralty Is.; Bismarck Arch.; Cape 

 York. 



* Cat. des Prim. p. 71. 

 t Syst. Regn. Anim. p. 71. 



