382 On a neio Genus of Bats. 



molars ; the palate is thus shorlened at both ends, dispro- 

 ]-iortionally so even to the short muzzle. Witliin the poste- 

 rior nares the large foramina leading np into the nasal 

 chamber are quite visible, and only partially covered, instead 

 of being lost far up within the nasal channel. 



Teetii in number and structure as in Nyctopldlus^ but, in 

 correlation with the shortened muzzle, much reduced in size. 



Type :— 



Pharoti's imogene, sp. n. 



Size about as in Xyctopldlus geoffroyi. Colour dark brown 

 above and below, but no skins available for description. 

 Ears and membranes uniformly brown. Membranes practi- 

 cally naked throughout. 



Other characters as described above. 



Dimensions of the type (measured on the spiiit-speci- 

 men) : — 



Forearm 37 5 mm. 



Head and body .50; tail 42; hind foot (c. u.) 9'3 ; 

 ear 25 ; tragus, length on inner edge 7"3 ; breadth 4*4 ; third 

 finger, metacarpus 35, first phalanx 14 ; lower leg 17*5 ; 

 calcar 18. 



Skull : greatest length 15 ; basi-sinual length 10"2 ; 

 zvoomatic breadth 9'8 ; occiput to base of nasal notch 12"2; 

 interorbital breadth 4 2 ; palato-sinual length 37 ; length of 

 bulla 3*5 ; front of canine to back of m^ 4-5 ; m^ and nr on 

 outer edge 2 '3. 



Hob. Kaniali, Lower Kemp Welch River, British New 

 Guinea. 



Type. Adult female. B.M. no. 91. 9. 10. 2. Collected 

 November 1890 by Dr. L. Loria, and presented by the 

 Marquis G. Doiia. 



This bat has so much the look of the ordinary species of 

 NyctopUlns that, in days when that genus was considered to 

 consist of only one large-eared species, with an almost 

 unlimited range of variation, it was assigned to Nyctophilus 

 timoriensis in my account of the Loria collection. Now, 

 liowever, an examination of its skull shows it to be very 

 diflferent from any Nyctophilus^ as may be gathered from the 

 above description. Botii its cranial and external characters 

 are quite peculiar to itself, no one of the species of Nycto- 

 philus approaching it in any of them. 



I may note here with regard to Nyctophilus that Tomes's 

 paper on the genus (P. Z. S. 1858, p. 25) presents a far 



