1878.] CHIROPTERA IN THE MUS. d'hIST. NAT. PARIS. 877 



agreeing with that species in the comparatively widely separated 

 nostrils, but resembling the species of the other section of the genus 

 in the projecting extremity of the muzzle, which extends consider- 

 ably beyond the lower lip ; the ears also are much broader, and the 

 upper third of the outer margin of the conch is convex, not concave ; 

 the tragus is comparatively shorter and much broader, attaining its 



Emballonitra raffrayana. 



greatest breadth above, where it is so broadly rounded off so as to 

 appear abruptly truncated ; the outer and inner margins are straight 

 or faintly concave. 



Wings from the ankles or from the tarsi ; feet much larger than 

 in E. niyrescens ; calcanea about two thirds the length of the tibiae. 



Fur above dark-brown, paler at the base ; beneath paler through- 

 out. Wings nearly naked ; upper surface of the interfemoral mem- 

 brane thinly clothed as far as the extremity of the tail. 



Teeth as in E. niyrescens, except that the first upper premolar is 

 smaller, and scarcely raised above the level of the gum. 



Length (of an adult d"), head and body l"-65 ; tail 0"-5 ; head 

 0"-65; ear 0"-5S, tragus 0"-2 ; forearm 1"\<55; thumb 0""25 ; 

 third finger— metacarp. l"-3, 1st ph. 0"4, 2nd ph. 0"*65 ; fourth 

 finger— metacarp. 1"-1, 1st ph. 0'"3, 2nd ph. 0"*2; fifth finger— 

 metacarp. 1", 1st ph. 0"-68, 2nd ph. 0"'15 ; tibia 0"-6; calcaneum 

 0"-45; foot 0-"3. 



Hab. Gilolo Island. 



At the request of M. Milne-Edwards, I have much pleasure in 

 connecting with this species the name of its discoverer, M. Raffray. 



2. Oriental Reyion. 



Cynonycteris amplexicatjdata, Geoffr. 

 Cambodja (M. Harmand). 



Cynopterus marginatus, Geoffr. 

 Singapore (M. de Castelnau). 



EONYCTERIS SPEL-«A, DobsOll. 



Java (M. de la Saviniere) . 



