1887.] FROM THE SOLOMON ISLANDS. 323 



1854 by Dr. F. M. Rayiier, during the voyage of H.M.S. ' Herald ;' 

 not obtained by Mr. Woodford. 



4. Cynonycteris brachyotis. Dobs. 



a, b. Fauro Island, .5/86. 



Previously known habitat, New-Ireland group ; also recorded from 

 Celebes'. 



The two specimens obtained by Mr. Woodford are both slightly 

 immature, and both retain their first upper premolars. They agree 

 in every respect with the typical specimens. 



5. Harpyia major. Dobs. 



a, b. Alu, Shortland Island, 4/86. (New Georgia, Coll. Brit. 

 Mus.) 

 Hab. E. New Guinea ; New-Ireland group ; Solomon Islands. 



6. Cephalotes peronii, Geoffr. 



a. Alu, Shortland Island, 4/86. (Ugi, Dr. H. B. Guppy, 

 H.M.S. 'Lark'; San Christoval, F. M. Rayner, H.M.S. 

 'Herald.') 

 Hab. Austro-Malayan subregion, from Celebes to Solomon 

 Islands. 



Nesonycteris% g. n. 



Muzzle long, narrow, cylindrical ; nostrils projecting considerably ; 

 upper lip with a vertical groove bounded laterally by raised naked 

 edges ; posterior palate-ridges divided in the centre ; index finger 

 without a claw, longer than the metacarpal bone of the middle finger ; 

 wing-membranes as in Meloyiycteris ^ ; tail none. 



Dentition :— I, f, C. [, Pm. |, M.|x2=32. 



Shape, size, and position of teeth much as in Melonycteris*, but 

 lower inner incisors entirely obsolete. 



Skull as in Melonycteris; premaxillse distinctly separated ante- 

 riorly °. Lower jaw with a very long gutter-like symphysis, and with a 

 long diastema between the first premolar and that next behind it. 



This most interesting new genus presents a combination of the 

 characters of several of the hitherto known Macroglossine Bats. 

 Thus, in the clawless state of the index finger it resembles Eonyc- 

 teris and Notopteris ; by the attachment of its wing-membraues and 

 the form of its palate-ridges, Melonycteris and, fairly closely, Mega- 

 Inglossus. And, again, while the number of the incisors is as in 

 Notopteris, the other teeth closely resemble those of Melonycteris, 

 to which, on the whole, it is certainly most nearly allied. 



^ Jentink, Notes Leyd. Mus. v. p. 173 (1883). 



^ i/fjcros, an island, vvKrepb, a bat. 



3 See Dobson, P. Z. S. 1877, p. 119. 



* Figured, id. I. c. figs. 5 and 6. 



' As they are in Mdonijctcris, although by some accident that genus has been 

 placed under the heading of " premaxillary bones united in front," in the Oat. 

 Ohiropt. Brit. Mus. p. 4, nothing being said on the subject in the description 

 of the genus pp. 97-8. 



