new Eastern Bids. 379 



large, not very deep, their mcdiiiu diviiliug rulge compara- 

 tively low, not rising nearly as liigli as tlie floor of the 

 niesoptt^rygoiJ fossa. Biillie rather small. 



Dimensions ot the type (the starred measurements taken in 

 the tlesh) :— 



Forearm 71 mm. 



Expanse *480 ; head and body ^'89; tail *24; ear *i8; 

 tragus *5 ; third finger, metacarpus G7, tirst phalanx 27'5. 



fcjivull : greatest length 21*7; condylo-basal length 21; 

 basi-sinual length 17; zygomatic breadth 16; interorbital 

 breadth 7'8 ; palato-sinual length 72; front of canine to 

 back of Wi3 lo-i^ 



JIdh. Paramaii, Mimika R., S. Dutch New (jruiiioa. Low 

 country. 



Ti/pe. Adult female. Original number 2516. Collected 

 10th xVovember, lUlO, by C. H. 13. Grant during the B.O.U. 

 Expedition to New Guinea; presented by the Subscribers. 



This distinct species is no doubt most nearly allied to 

 T. saecolaiinus, but is readily recognizable by its smaller size, 

 different colour, shorter and broader skull, and by the tlefailed 

 cranial characters above described. 1 have named it in 

 honour of my colleague Mr. W. K. Ogilvie-Grant, by whom 

 the Expedition to New Guinea was initiated, and to whom 

 we owe the very acceptable collection of mammals obtained 

 by its members. 



The large Japanese Noctule. 



The large form of JSyctalus found in Japan was named 

 " Ves2)ertHio molossus " by Temminck in the ' Fauna Japonica/ 

 but tliat name was antedated and invalidated by the earlit-r 

 Vesperlilio molossus of Pallas (1767). 



In 1878 Dobson assigned the name lasioplenis to it, from 

 Schreber's plate Iviii. B, dating from 1781, and this identifi- 

 cation, unlikely as it seemed, might have had to be adopted 

 were it not that Fischer (182i)) and Wagner (1840), with 

 equal rights as " revisers," placed the name as a synonym of 

 noctula, asserting that it was an old individual. Dobson's 

 specimen, moreover, proves on examination to be not tiie 

 Japanese, but the large Italian form, to which the name 

 inaximus has been applied. 



AV' hether Fischer and Wagner's assignation of lasiopterus 

 to noctula should be adopted, or whether any evidence con- 

 necting it definitely with majcimus may turn up, is for the 

 moment immaterial, although personally I believe it to have 

 been the latter animal. Indeed, Dobson's specimen, from 

 the Lidth de Jeude collection, and therefore probably in 



