1878.] CHIROPTERA IN THE MUS. d'hIST. NAT. PARIS. 875 



Pteropus keraudreni, Quoy & Gaimard. 

 The specimens in the collection from New Caledonia have the 

 ace, back, and inferior surface of the body of a much darker colour 



life, 'US? 7 • d fe S P ecimens of this secies from other loca- 



lities, and they agree in this respect closely with the types of Ptero- 

 pus vamcorensis Q. & G., which, as I have indicated in my u Cata- 

 drfni Chiro Ptera,' is evidently a variety only of Pt. keral- 



Hab. New Caledonia, and most other islands of the Polynesian 

 subregion. (See my ' Catalogue of Chiroptera,' p. 64.) J 



Pteropus hypomelantjs, Temminck. 



Several specimens of this species were obtained by M. La»laize 

 at Amberbaki, New Guinea. J a . rt ", e 



Cynopterus scherzeri (Fitzinger). 



rfl^JET" ° f thiS Tr 8 ' labelled *' N - Gui »e'e, M. La- 

 glaize. With the exception of that very aberrant form Cynopterus 

 laHdens, described by me from a specimen from Morty IsCd this 

 s the firs instance of any species of this genus extending beyond 



rom 1? v- r T° n T , V St T ge that this s P ecies *<>"& exS 

 from the Nicobar Islands to New Guinea; and it is just possible 



t*zi;:^:r y have been made by the ™^^ as 



Harpyia cephalotes, Pallas. 



An adult specimen from New Guinea, collected by M. Raffrav 

 localilv eXamP ° f thiS SpedeS ° btained in the abo ^-uamed 



Cephalotes minor, n. sp. 



seSn!!*!! ? e SlZe ° f adult s Pf cimeus of C.peroni, but closely re- 

 sembling that species in general structure. The wing-membrane is 

 imilarly attached only to the central line of the back along the spin 

 and w aUo uaked f the shou]ders ^^ ^ P ^ 



rit; r o e int f ed heSameShapeaS " thel ^-P-es; but the ears 

 The feet are much smaller than in very young specimens of C. pe- 

 rom ; and the wing-membrane is attached to the outer toe, not to the 

 space between the toes as in that species , it also extends further out! 

 wards, erminating opposite the second joint of the next toe. 



»Zt l arC 1 S ° SHghtl * different : the u PP er incis ors are wider 

 tp P rn Vk , SeC ° u Upper P remolar ha s not the prominent antero-in- 

 ternal basal cusp observed in C. peroni; and the first lower premolar 

 scarcely rises above the gum. V 



The following Table exhibits the comparative measurements of 

 this species and of C. peroni : — 



