Mr. K. Andersen on new Fruit-bats. 623 



605-69 mm.), this form is at once distinguished by its 

 smaller size, fused cusps of p 3 , mottled colour of back, and 

 feebly developed spinal stripe. 



Nyct'anene cyclotis, sp. n. 



Size small (forearms of type broken, estimated length 

 58 mm.) ; premolars and molars peculiarly short and broad, 

 subcircular in outline (character particularly pronounced in 

 p 4 and m l , p 4 and m^ ; m 1 reduced to about § or f the size 

 of p 4 , m 1 slightly smaller than p 4 • ears unusually broad, 

 nearly as broad as long, and semicircularly rounded off 

 above ; back mottled with brownish tips to the hairs ; a 

 narrow spinal stripe along posterior half of back. Hab. New 

 Guinea. 



Type. $ ad. (al. and skull), Avfak Mts., N.W. New 

 Guinea, collected by A. E. Pratt, B.M. 10. 7. 16. 9. 



Nyctimene geminus, sp. n. 



Similar to N. major (Bismarck Archipelago), but smaller 

 (forearm 70*5-77, against 78-85*5 mm. in major) ; males 

 differing by the more brownish-drab colour of the fur (in 

 major ash-grey or greyish hair-brown). Hab. B. New 

 Guinea ; Kiriwina Is. ; D'Entrecasteaux Is. 



Type. $ ad. (skin and skull), south of Huon Gulf, B. New 

 Guinea, collected by Dr. P. Comrie, B.M. 76. 7. 5. 10. 

 Four specimens examined (compared with ten of N. major). 



Nyctimene scitulus, sp. n. 



Similar to iV. geminus, but free edge of bony palate tri- 

 angular (in geminus semicircularly concave), and ears con- 

 spicuously smaller (14 mm. from orifice, against 16 in 

 geminus) ; general size as geminus, forearm 71*5-80 mm. 

 Hab. Solomon Islands ; so far known from Shortlaud, New 

 Georgia, Florida, and Guadalcanal*. 



Type. ? ad. (al. and skull), Aola, Guadalcanal*, collected 

 by C. M. Woodford, B.M. 88. 1. 5. 11. Five specimens 

 examined. 



Cynopterus sphinx gangeticus, subsp. n. 



Like C. s. sphinx, but averaging conspicuously larger : 

 Skull, lambda to gnathion 33-36 (in C. s. sphinx 31*5-3d*5), 



