BY CLIVE E. LORD. 23 



This species occurs over Eastern and Soutli-Eastern 

 Australia also. Head and body measure about twc and 

 a half inches. The fur on head, neck and shoulders is 

 black, tinged rufo'us, back yellowish brown, under surface 

 reddish to yellowish white. 



NiYCTONOMus PLiCATUs, Bucli.-Ham. 

 Plicated Bat. 



Nyctonomus 2}^icafus, Lucas & Le Souef, An. Aust., p. 49 



(1909); 



Ogilby, Cat. Aust. Mamm., p. 98 



(1892). 



Nyctonomus 'plicatus, Dobsoin, Cat. Chirop. B. Mus. (1878), 



p. 425, who also gives the following synonymy: — 



Vespertilio plicatus, BuchaiTvan-Hamilton, Trans. Linn. 

 Soc, v., p. 261, fie;. (1800). Nj-ctinomiis bengalensis, Geof- 

 frey, Deser. de I'Egypte, ii., p. 130 (1812). Nyotinomus 

 tenuis et dilatatus, Horsefield, Zoolog. Research in Java 

 (1825); Cantor, J.A.S.B. xv., p. 179. Dysopes marinus, Gray, 

 Illustr. Ind. Zool. (figured), 1830. Dysopes plicatus, Temminck, 

 Monogr. Mammal., i., p. 223 (1835-41). Dysopes tenuis, 

 Temminck, I.e. p. 228. Nyctinomus plicatus, Jerdon, Mam- 

 mals of India, p. 33 (1867)'; Dobson. J.A.S.B., 1874, p. 143, 

 Monogr., Asiat. Chiropt., p. 182 (1876), P.Z.S., 1876, p. 721. 



Type in British Museum. 



This species is also met with on the mainland through 

 the islands to' India. The head and body measure about 

 two and three-quarter inches. The ears are united in fi-ont 

 by a low band. Fur very soft and dense. Above smoky 

 black, below paler. 



Order CAKNIVORA. 



Concerning this order there is great need for further 

 research. The Sea. Leopard (0. leptonyx) is a fairly fre- 

 quent visitor to the shores of Southern Tasmania, and oc- 

 casionally a specimen of another species of Antarctic seal 

 may wander so far from the Soiuthern ice pack as to reach 

 Tasmania. Of the "Sea. Lions'' and "Sea Bears" many 

 species have been described — apparently on slender evi- 

 dence. To- work out the synonymy is an almost impossible 

 task. There is very little material for research available 

 at present, and I am greatly indebted to Mr. H. H. Scott 

 of the Victorian Museum for information and specimens 

 for examination. The synonymy of the scientific terms is 

 confused but that of the vernacular designations is doubly 

 so, mainly on account of the loose manner in which the 

 terms "Sea Bear" and "Sea Lion" have been used. 



Some writers have paid considerable attention to the 

 teeth of the seals, as an index to sjoecies, but, as Mr. Scott 



