1877.] FROM DUKE-OF-YORK ISLAND. 119 
Macroglossus minimus, Temminck, Monogr. Mammal. i. p. 191 
(1827); Dobson, Monogr. Asiat. Chiropt. p. 34 (1876). 
Two specimens of this widely distributed species, differing in no 
respect except in their slightly smaller size from individuals inbabit- 
img the peninsula of India and Java, and probably identical with 
the small variety from Australia to which Dr. Peters has given the 
name M. australis. 
MELonycTERIs’, gen. nov. 
Muzzle long, narrow, cylindrical; nostrils projecting slightly ; 
upper lip with a vertical groove, bounded laterally by naked raised 
edges asin Péeropus and Cynopéterus; index finger with a distinct 
claw ; metacarpal bone of middle finger as long as the index finger ; 
wing-membrane from the sides of the body and from the dorsal sur- 
face of the base of the middle toe ; tail none, or very short. 
Dentition.— Inc. x53 C. ; Pm. —- M. aaa 
First upper and lower premolars very small, close to the base of 
the canines; molars close together, very narrow, scarcely elevated 
above the gum. 
Tongue very long and narrow, as in Macroglossus. 
This genus is most closely related to Macroglossus, with which it 
agrees in the general form of the skull and in the mode of attach- 
ment of the wing-membrane to the sides of the body, but is distin- 
guished by the very different position and size of the first premolars, 
by the origin of the wing-membrane from the middle toe instead of 
from the base of the fourth, and by the form of the extremity of 
the muzzle. 
Fig. 4. Fig. 5. 

Front of muzzle and ear of M. melanops. 
MELONYCTERIS MELANOPS, sp. nov. (Plate XVII.) 
Slightly smaller than Honycteris spelea, Dobson, which it resem- 
bles closely in the external form of the muzzle; nostrils as in Cyno- 
nycteris amplexicaudata, but scarcely so prominent, separated by a 
deep groove which passes down to the upper lip, where it becomes 
1 undor, tree-fruit ; vuKrepis, a bat. 
