100 ^Ir. G. T. Bt>tluine-B;\ker on new Species of 



longest digit 70 ; basal joint of fifth digit 32; basal joint of 

 second digit 39 ; forearm 42'5; tibia 18; hind foot (without 

 claws) 8 5. 



Skull (of the tyi)e) : greatest length 16 ; basipalatal 

 length 12"2 ; zygomatic breadth (damaged) ; posterior 

 breadtli 10; breadth between orbits 8, at constriction 5; 

 length of pahite (damaged) 6 ; breadth betweeu outer borders 

 of m" 7*5 ; length from anterior border of canine to posterior 

 border of m' 7. 



JJiib. (see type). 



Tiie ti/pe and only known specimen is a male, no. 

 79. 11. 21. 164: of the Britisli Museum collection. It was 

 procured by Capt. T. Button at Mussooree, North-western 

 Himalayas, at an altitude of 4500 to 5500 feet, and was 

 received from the Indian Museum. 



Capt. Hutton (P. Z. S. 1872, p. 707) remarks tliat this 

 bat is " far from common at J\Iussooree, and appears to 

 be confined to an elevation ranging from 4500 to 5500 feet, 

 on the northern side of the Tyne range, immediately beyond 

 Mussooree. . . . Colour of the fur dark brown, with a chestnut 

 tinge, beneath paler and somewhat greyish. ... A male 

 [evidently tiie type] has the carpus 1]-^ in. ; tibia \^ in. ; ear 

 ^ in. ; nose to tail 3| in. ; tail 2^ in. ; total length 5j in." 



XIV. — Xew Species of Lyc^enidae from British Xeio Guinea. 

 By George T.Bethune- Baker, F.L.S., F.Z.S. 



Parelodina aroa, B.-B. 



When I described this species from the Aroa River (see 

 Novit. Zool. vol. xi. p. 368) I stated that there was a blue 

 irroration over the blackish basal area ; since writing that 

 I have received the species from Mr. Pratt, who took it at 

 Babooni in August. There is a most delicate pale mauve- 

 blue iridescence over nearly all the white area also. 



Candalides oxcijarra^ sp. n. 



$. Both wings creamy white: primaries with a very 

 restricted black basal area ; costa black to the cell, expanding 

 towards the apex and descending in a nearly even curve to 

 vein 2, making the termen very broadly and the apex yet 

 more broadly black : secondaries with a black basal dash 



