On new yeotroju'cul M<iiiimals. 217 



Skull : j;icatt st breadth 20;') ; ti|» i>f nasals to angle behind 

 postuibital processes 18'8 ; least interorl/ital breadth 72; 

 palate len;^th from gnathion liJ'T) ; width outside last molars 

 122 ; front of canine to back of last molar l-4'3. 



/lab. Milne Bay, S.IO. New Guinea. 



Type H.M. no. 90.12.3. 1. Collected 5th April, 1899, 

 bv Mr. A. 8. Meek. 



This fine species may be readily distinguished from its 

 ally C. major by its larger size, striking coloraticjn, and (if 

 that orjian is perfect) shorter tail. Like tiiat species, it no 

 doul)t belong.s to the subgenus " Bde^ffijmn^^ separated by 

 Dr. Matschie from the ty[)ical CephaJotea ; but I confess I 

 can see no sufficient reason for subdividing the genus. The 

 second lower premolar in some specimens of C. ccjJtalotes has 

 the second cusp said by Dr. Matschie to be characteristic of 

 Bihlygma. 



It may also be noted that of specimens referred to C. cepha- 

 Jutes those from Celebes, Amboina, and Timor Laut have 

 niarkeilly larger skulls and longer forearms than those of the 

 rest of the Papuan subregion. The smaller form should 

 apj)arently be distinguished under the name of C. alhiventery 

 Gray. Of this latter the Museum possesses examples from 

 Moity Island (type), Admiralty Islands, Key Islands, British 

 New Guinea, and Cape York. Whether its range overlaps 

 that of the larger C. cephalotes remains to be proved. 



With the Cephalotes Mr. Meek has sent home a number of 

 .specimens of Pi/>ii>trellus papuanus, Pet., and tliese prove that 

 the s))ecies is subject to the peculiar form of erythrism already 

 described in several other bats, some of the specimens being 

 bright rufous, while others are dark brown. 



Another sj)ecies discovered by the same collector, Emhallo- 

 nura Mee/ci\ Thos., found by him in the Trobriand Islands, 

 has recently turned up in a somewhat distant locality, namely 

 in the Key Islands, where it occurs in the same collection as 

 the remarkable Rliinolophus achilles described in the last 

 number of the 'Annals.' 



XXYII. — Descriptions of new Neotropical Mammals. 

 By Oldfield Thomas. 



Conepatus zorillaj sp. n. 



Size medium, about as in C. chilensis^ smaller than in 

 C. quitensis. Fur comparatively very short, fine, glossy, 

 almost without underfur, (piite different to the long, coarse, 



