some Australasian Mammals. 423 



The point about the double usage of the name tuhercuJatus 

 lias liitherto been that, as Forster^s description of the Chalino- 

 lohus was not published till 1844, Gray's description of the 

 Mystacops in 1843 (Voy. ' Sulphur/ Mamm. p. 23) had 

 absolute priority, whether he thought it was Forster's 

 tuherculatus or not. 



But in tiie work to which my attention has been drawn, 

 Dieffenbach's 'New Zealand,' 1843, Gray, by publishing in 

 the Appendix (ii. p. 181) five words of description of 

 Forster's plate, then unpublished, not only cut him out with 

 regard to the Chalinolohus, but invalidated his own tuhercu- 

 laius for the Mysfacops, which he first used on p. 29G of the 

 same work, distinctly stating his opinion that it was the same 

 bat. As a result, tuherculatus being invalidated for the 

 ]\Iijstaco2)s, Button's velutinus will come into force, and the 

 names and chief synonymy of the two species will be as 

 follows : — 



Chalinolohus tuherculatus, Gray. 

 Short-eared Bat. 



Vespertilio tuherculatus, Gray (ex Forst.), Dieifenb. N. Zealand, ii 



p. 181 (1843) ; Forst. Descr. Anim. (ed. Licht.) p. 62 (1844). 

 Scotophihis tuberculatus, Tomes, P. Z. S. 1857, p. 135 ; Hutton, Trans. 



N. Z. Inst. iv. p. 185 (1871). 

 C/ialinohbus tuberculatus, Peters, MB. Ak. Berl. 1866, p. 680, and 



1867, p. 480; Dobson, Cat. Chir. B. M. p. 248 (1878) (the New 



Zealand specimens only). 

 Chalinolohus morio, Tlios. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (G) iv. p. 4G2 (1889) 



(in part.). 



Mystacops velutinus, Hutton. 

 Long-eared Bat. 



Mystacina tuberculata, Gray, Dieffenb. N. Zealand, ii. p. 296 (1843), 

 nee VesjJertilio tuberculatus, id. torn, cit. p. 181 ; Dobs. Cat. Chir. 

 B. M. p. 442 (1878). 



Mystacina velutina, Hutton, Tr. N. Z. Inst. iv. p. 185 (1871). 



Mystacops tuberculatus, Lydekker, in Flow. & Lyd. Mamm. p. 671 

 (1891). 



Dohsonia magna, sp. n. 



Similar in all essential respects to B. paliataj Geoff.*, but 

 very much larger, the skull especially being conspicuously 

 larger in all dimensions. 



* Cephalotes Peronii, Dobs, et auct. al. 



