DR. F. A. JENTINK. MAMMALS. 363. 



Masso-Rivi 



fifth finger . . . S2 + 4S + 55 (52) 184 



tibia 70 



foot 43 



tail 27 



calcaneum 15 



Describing Cephalotes peronii (our Dobsonia paliatd) Dobson remarked (Catalogue, p. 

 91): a the eye is nearer to the extremity of the nose than to the ear," however from the above 

 given measurements it appears that this is not so, and that contrariwise just the reverse is the 

 real truth. Dobson said: "wing-membrane from the base of the second toe", Matschie (Mega- 

 chiroptera, 1899, p. 86) observed : "die Flughaut setzt sich an die erste und zweïte Zehe an"; 

 both authors are wrong as our alcoholic spécimens very clearly demonstrate, for in reality 

 the wing-membrane is attached upon the first toe, nay for a couple of millimeters, by no 

 means reaching the second toe. 



The underparts of the wing-membrane betvveen arm and forearm, along forearm and 

 from arm to fémur are thickly decorated with white tubercles bearing brownish yellow hairs; 

 I nowhere saw thèse tubercles mentioned in former descriptions. 



Concerning the spécifie title of our species I observe that I wrote paliata and notpal- 

 liata (Matschie, Dobson and other authors), simply because Geoffroy, the creator of the name, 

 called the animal Pteropus paliatus and not palliatus: it may be grammatically more correct 

 to write palliatus or palliata, however in writing paliata I follow the law of priority (Ann. 

 du Muséum d'Hist. nat. XV, 1810, pp. 99 et 100); zoologists generally are no great philolo- 

 gists, especially not since it is not gênerai custom to study latin and greek; happily philo- 

 logists generally don't care a pin for our writings; and if not so, I fear that but a few of our 

 modem would-be latin and greek words would find grâce in their eyes ! 



3. Carponycteris nana Matschie. 



An adult female-specimen from Merauke, collected by the „Sneeuw-Gebergte" expédition. 

 The measurements correspond exactly with those in my paper (Revision of the gênera Ma- 

 croglossus a. s. o. in Notes from the Leyden Muséum, XXIII, 1902, p. 139); the ear measures 

 12 mm., near the base of the outer margin is a very small lobe. 



4. Hipposideros diadema Geoffroy. 

 An adult female from the grotto on the Sentani Lake, collected April 9. 1903 by the 

 Humboldt Bay expédition. 



5. Hipposideros cervinus Gould. 



Three maies and one female from the grotto on the Sentani Lake, collected April 9. 

 1903 by the Humboldt Bay expédition. 



6. Hipposideros calcaratus Dobson. 



17 maies and 20 females from the grotto on the Sentani Lake, collected April 9. 1903 

 by the members of the Humboldt Bay expédition. Not recorded from New Guinea since 1872 



