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Show 1878.] CHIROPTERA IN THE MUS. D'HIST. NAT. PARIS. 875 PTEROPUS KERAUDRENI, Quoy & Gaimard. The specimens in the collection from New Caledonia have the face, back, and inferior surface of the body of a much darker colour than is usually observed in specimens of this species from other localities, and they agree in this respect closely with the types of Pteropus vanicorensis, Q. & G., which, as I have indicated in m y * Catalogue of the Chiroptera,' is evidently a variety only of Pt. keraudreni. Hab. New Caledonia, and most other islands of the Polynesian subregion. (See m y ' Catalogue of Chiroptera,' p. 64.) PTEROPUS HYPOMELANUS, Temminck. Several specimens of this species were obtained by M . Laglaize at Amberbaki, N e w Guinea. CYNOPTERUS SCHERZERI (Fitzinger). Several specimens of this species, labelled " N. Guine'e, M . Laglaize." With the exception of that very aberrant form Cynopterus latidens, described by m e from a specimen from Morty Island, this is the first instance of any species of this genus extending beyond the Oriental region. It is strange that this species should extend from the Nicobar Islands to N e w Guinea; and it is just possible that some mistake may have been made by the collector when labelling the specimens. HARPYIA CEPHALOTES, Pallas. A n adult specimen from New Guinea, collected by M . Raffray. This is the first example of this species obtained in the above-named locality. CEPHALOTES MINOR, n. sp. Not half the size of adult specimens of C. peroni, but closely resembling that species in general structure. The wing-membrane is similarly attached only to the central line of the back along the spine, and is also naked from the shoulders backwards ; the head and muzzle are of the same shape as in the larger species; but the ears are less pointed. The feet are much smaller than in very young specimens of C. peroni ; and the wing-membrane is attached to the outer toe, not to the space between the toes as in that species ; it also extends further outwards, terminating opposite the second joint of the next toe. The teeth are also slightly different: the upper incisors are wider apart; the second upper premolar has not the prominent antero-internal basal cusp observed in C. peroni; and the first lower premolar scarcely rises above the gum. The following Table exhibits the comparative measurements of this species and of C. peroni:- |