•* CATALOGUE OF MAMMALS FROM NEW GUINEA. 



thin, sooty-black, bald ; thumb slender, of two subequal joints ; the 

 interfemoral membrane broad, truncate at the end ; the hind legs 

 slender, rather elongate ; feet slender, enveloped in the membrane 

 to the base of the slender equal compressed toes ; the heel-bones 

 elongate, longer than the foot ; tail elongate, slender, attached, and 

 extending a little beyond the end of the truncated interfemoral mem- 

 brane. 



Cutting teeth i=i; upper large, chisel-shaped, separated by a 

 small space from each other and from the canines ; the lower small, 

 crowded, three-lobed ; canines conical ; grinders ? 



The specimen is unfortunately rather injured about the face ; but 

 it appears quite distinct in form from any of the Horse-shoe Bats I 

 have hitherto observed. 



This species appears to be quite distinct from Hipposideros 

 speoris of Timor, which is described as being a little larger than the 

 larger English Horse-shoe Bat, Phyllorhina bifer ; it has the follow- 

 ing synonyma : — 



Vespertilio speoris, Schneid. in Schreb. Saugth. t. 59 B. ", Shaw, 

 Zool. i. 147. 



Rhinolophus marsupialis, Geoff. Cour. 1805. 



Rhinolophus speoris, Geoff. Ann: Mus. xx. 261. t. 5. 266 ; Desm. 

 N. D. H. N. xl. 368 ; Mam. 126 ; Fischer, Mam. 139. 



Rhinolophe crumSnifire, Peron & Lesueur, Voy. aux Terres Aust. 

 Atlas, i. t. 35. 



Hah. Timor (Plron and Lesueur). 



It is certainly distinct from Hipposideros insignis, Gray, Mag. 

 Zool. & Bot. ii. 492, the Rhinolophus insignis, Horsf. Java, Vesp. 

 cyclope, Deschamps, MSS., from Java, which Fischer confounded 

 with the former, and which has acute ears on the sides of the face, 

 numerous lamellae under the front part of the nose-leaf, and is 

 13^ inches in expanse of wings. ; 



Pteropus argentatus. 



Pteropus argentatus, Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1858. 



Back white, with scattered black hairs ; beneath yellowish ; face 

 grey, nakedish ; head deeper yellow-grey, with black interspersed 

 hairs ; collar broad, bright red-chestnut, darker brown at the sides 

 and under side, where the hair is longer, forming a kind of ruff ; 

 ears and membranes (when dry) black. 



Hab. Aru Island (Wallace). 



a. Female. Aru Island. 



" Back of a silky or silvery shining white, very beautiful in the 

 freshly killed animals." — Wallace. 



