138 Mr. 0. Thomas on Emballouura. 



Tims the mesoptcryfroid fossa is markerlly sliorter, the 

 distance from tlie palatiou to tlie saddle-back convexity at 

 its hinder end I'l mm., as compared with 1*6 ram. ; it does 

 not open quite so far forward, and the o])cnings into the 

 nasal chamber are not so hirge and the etlnnoid bones are 

 consequently less exposed. In the basial fossa, the median, 

 septum, which in m<eki is represented by a broad low 

 elevation, slightly grooved mesially and only running half 

 across the fossa, consists of two low but quite distinct ridges, 

 running back, slightly divergent, quite to the back of the 

 fossa. In all other species, the median septum, if present, 

 is truly median and without tendency to split into two. As 

 in E. meeki^ the whole fossa is rather shallow, narrow, with- 

 out lateral septa or antero-lateral extensions. 



Dimensions of the type (the italicized measurements taken 

 in the flesh) : — 



Forearm 39 mm. 



Head and body 38 ; tail 12 ; ear 13 ; lower leg and foot 

 (c. u.) 23 ; calear 16. 



Skull : greatest length to front of canine 12'4 ; condyle 

 to front of canine 11 : breadth across facial swellings 5; 

 mastoid breadth 7*4 ; front of canine to back of m^ 4"5. 



JIab. Kei Islands. Type from Ara. 



Type. Adult female.' B.M. no. 10.3.1.34. Original 

 number 855. Collected July, 1909, by W. Stalker. 



Like as nieeki and eluvium are in all other respects, the 

 bkull-differcnces described above are constant through three 

 S])ecimens of one and five of the other. But an example 

 from the Owen Stanley flange, New Guinea, is somewhat 

 intermediate in character as in locality, and I therefore only 

 distinguish the new form as a subspecies. 



Emballonura beccarii, Pet. & Doria. 

 Judging by a drawing of the tragus of the type, kindly 

 sent me by Dr. Gestro, I am inclined to think this will prove 

 to be a synonym of E. rofrayana, Dobs., a species described 

 after the publication of Dobson^s Catalogue, and not men- 

 tioned in Peters and Doria's description. The typical 

 localities of the two are quite near each other. 



Emballonura stresemanni, Thos. 

 Of this species the Museum contains, besides the typical 

 series, a number of specimens collected by the late Mr. W. 

 Stalker in Ceram, during the B.O.U. New Guinea expedition. 

 It has the same broad oblong tragus as E. ruffrayana, Dobs., 

 as is also the case with the following. 



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