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Show ^877i] FROM DUKE-OF-YORK ISLAND. 119 Macroglossus minimus, Temminck, Monogr. Mammal, i. p. 191 (1827); Dobson, Monogr. Asiat. Chiropt. p. 34 (1876). Two specimens of this widely distributed species, differing in no respect except in their slightly smaller size from individuals inhabiting the peninsula of India and Java, and probably identical with the small variety from Australia to which Dr. Peters has given the name M. australis. MELONYCTERIS1, gen. nov. Muzzle long, narrow, cylindrical; nostrils projecting slightly; upper lip with a vertical groove, bounded laterally by naked raised edges as in Pteropus and Cynopterus; index finger with a distinct claw ; metacarpal bone of middle finger as long as the index finger; wing-membrane from the sides of the body and from the dorsal surface of the base of the middle toe ; tail none, or very short. Dentition.-Inc. g^; C. j==|; Pm. g ; M. §=§. First upper and lower premolars very small, close to the base of the canines; molars close together, very narrow, scarcely elevated above the gum. Tongue very long and narrow, as in Macroglossus. This genus is most closely related to Macroglossus, with which it agrees in the general form of the skull and in the mode of attachment of the wing-membrane to the sides of the body, but is distinguished by the very different position and size of the first premolars, by the origin of the wing-membrane from the middle toe instead of from the base of the fourth, and by the form of the extremity of the muzzle. Front of muzzle and ear of M. melanops. M E L O N Y C T E R I S M E L A N O P S , sp. nov. (Plate XVII.) Slightly smaller than Eonycteris spelcea, Dobson, which it resembles closely in the external form of the muzzle; nostrils as in Cynonycteris amplexicaudata, but scarcely so prominent, separated by a deep groove which passes down to the upper lip, where it becomes 1 firfkov, tree-fruit; vvKrepis, a bat. |