1887.] 



FROM THE SOLOMON ISLANDS. 



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the back, this being of precisely the same soft cottony nature, and 

 of the same fulvous-yellow tinge ; but the face, instead of being 

 varigated with black and white, and quite different from the back, 

 is quite like the latter, except that it is rather darker. The under- 



Skull of Nesont/cteris woodfordi, upper view ; twice natural size. 



Skull of Nesonycteris woodfordi, side view ; twice natural size. 



side also is Tery similar to the back, although rather paler and 

 duller, while in M. melanops it is nearly black. Point of insertion 

 of the antebrachial membrane without any trace of a white spot. 



