622 Mr. K. Andersen on new Fruit-huts. 



Type, <J ad. (skin and skull), Milne Bay, B. New Guinea, 

 19th March, 1899, collected by A. S.Meek, B.M. no. 99. 12.3. 2. 

 Fifteen specimens examined. 



Remarks. — Four species of Nyctimene are known from New 

 Guinea — papuanus, cyclotis (described below), geminus 

 (below), and aello. N. papuanus is so much smaller than 

 N. geminus (forearm 70'5-77 mm.) and N. aello (81*5—84) 

 that a confusion with these is hardly possible. From the 

 small N. cyclotis it is readily distinguished by the relative 

 size of m 1 and nij (in cyclotis conspicuously smaller than, 

 respectively, p 4 and p 4 ), the shape of the ears (in cyclotis 

 unusually broad and semicircularly rounded off above), and 

 the colour of the fur (back in cyclotis mottled with dark 

 brownish tips to the hairs, spinal stripe rather ill-defined). 



Nyctimene minutus, sp. n. 



General size as N. albiventer (forearm about 51 mm.) ; 

 m 1 and nij not reduced in size- inner cusp of p 3 completely 

 fused with outer • ears as in N. papuanus ; colour of back 

 distinctly mottled with dark brownish tips to the hairs ; 

 dorsal stripe very narrow, somewhat ill-defined, and confined 

 to posterior two-thirds of back. Hah. Celebes. 



Type. $ ad. (skin and skull), Tondano, Minahassa, 

 N. Celebes, collected by Dr. A. R. Wallace, B.M. 7. 1. 1. 271 

 (Tomes Collection). 



Remark.' — The only other species of Nyctimene known 

 from Celebes is the considerably larger N. cephalotes (forearm 

 60-5-69 mm.). 



Nyctimene varius, sp. n. 



Closely allied to N. minutus, as small as, or only very 

 little larger than, that species (forearm 55 mm.), but with 

 considerably heavier teeth (c— m 1 10, against 8*8 mm.) • fur 

 longer, more woolly and spreading; colour of back coarsely 

 mottled with dark brownish tips to the hairs • spinal stripe 

 confined to posterior half of back. Hah. Known only from 

 the island of Buru, presumably generally distributed over the 

 Amboina group. 



'lype. Ad. (skin and skull), Mt. Mada, Buru, Sept. 1898, 

 collected by A. Everett, presented by the Hon. W. Rothschild, 

 B.M. 10. 11. 13. 1. 



Remark. — From the only other species of the genus known 

 to inhabit the Amboina group, viz. N. cephalotes (forearm 



