10 Mamm. 
MAMMALIA. 
LEMURES. 
W. Turner’s important paper “ On the Placentation of the Lenaurs” 
[cf. Zool. Rec. xiii. Mamm. p. 10] is published in full; Phil. Tr. clxvi. 
pp. 569-587, pis. xlix.-li. Summary of results reprinted j J. Anat. Phys. 
xii. pp. 147-153. 
Chiromyidjj. 
Chiromys madagascariensis. A. Milne-Edwards & A. Grandidier 
describe its nest-building habits ; 0. R. Ixxxiv. pp. 196 & 197. 
CHIROPTERA. 
G. E. Dobson describes a collection of Bats from New Britain and the 
vicinity, containing 12 species, of which four are new \^Pteropodidce, 
Rhinolo'phidoi'] ; P. Z. S. 1877, pp. 114-123, pi. xvii. He also gives notes 
on collections from India and Burma; two species \yespertiUon%dcB~\ are 
new ; J. A. S. B. xlvi. pt. 2, pp. 310-319. 
W. Leciie’s“ Studier ofvor Mjolkdentionou och tiindernas homologicr 
hos Chiroptera ” [cf. Zool. Rec. xiii. Mamm. p. 10] are translated ; Arch. f. 
Nat. 1877, pp. 353-364. 
A. P. Ninni gives a list of 14 species of Bats observed in Venctia ; 
Atti Soc. Pad. hi. (1874) p. 203. 
Pteropodidje. 
Pteropus epulariuSf sp. n., E. Pierson Ramsay, P. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. 
ii. p. 8, New Guinea. 
Pteropus alho-scapulatits, sp. n., id. 1. c. p. 17, Duke of York Island ; 
type of Cheiropteruges^ subg. n. 
Cyonycteris brachyotus^ sp. n., G. E. Dobson, P. Z. S. 1877, p. 116, New 
Britain, or vicinity. 
Harpyia major, sp. n., id. 1. c. p. 117, New Britain, or vicinity. 
Melonycteris, g. n., id. 1. c. p. 119 ; allied to Macroglossus, but differing 
in dentition and attachment of wing-membrane. Type, M. melanops, 
sp. n. (pi. xvii.), New Britain or vicinity. 
Rhinolophid^. 
Phyllorrhina calcarata, sp. n., G.E. Dobson, P. Z. S. 1877, p. 122, New 
Britain, or vicinity. 
Vespertilionidj:. 
Vesperugo nasicatus, sp. n., G. E. Dobson, J. A. S. B. xlvi. pt. 2, 
1877, p. 311, Sind ; V. hlanfordi, sp. n,, id, 1. c. p. 312, Tenasscri.m. 
