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Show 1878.] CHIROPTERA IN THE MUS. D'HIST. NAT. PARIS. 877 agreeing with that species in the comparatively widely separated nostrils, but resembling the species of the other section of the genus in the projecting extremity of the muzzle, which extends considerably beyond the lower lip ; the ears also are much broader, and the upper third of the outer margin of the conch is convex, not concave ; the tragus is comparatively shorter and much broader, attaining its Emballonura raffrayana. greatest breadth above, where it is so broadly rounded off so as to appear abruptly truncated ; the outer and inner margins are straight or faintly concave. Wings from the ankles or from the tarsi; feet much larger than in E. nigrescens ; calcanea about two thirds the length of the tibiae. Fur above dark-brown, paler at the base; beneath paler throughout. Wings nearly naked ; upper surface of the interfemoral membrane thinly clothed as far as the extremity of the tail. Teeth as in E. nigrescens, except that the first upper premolar is smaller, and scarcely raised above the level of the gum. Length (of an adult <f), head and body 1"*65 ; tail 0"*5 ; head 0"*65; ear 0"*58, tragus 0"*2; forearm 1"*55; thumb 0"*25 ; third finger-metacarp. 1"*3, 1st ph. 0"*4, 2nd ph. 0"*65 ; fourth finger-metacarp. 1"*1, 1st ph. 0*"3, 2nd ph. 0"*2; fifth finger- metacarp. 1", 1st ph. 0"*38, 2nd ph. 0"*15 ; tibia 0"*6; calcaneum 0"*45; foot 0*"3. Hab. Gilolo Island. At the request of M . Milne-Edwards, I have much pleasure in connecting with this species the name of its discoverer, M . Raffray. 2. Oriental Begion. CYNONYCTERIS AMPLEXICAUDATA, Geoffr. Cambodja (M. Harmand). CYNOPTERUS MARGINATUS, Geoffr. Singapore (M. de Castelnau). EONYCTERIS SPELiEA, DobsOll. Java (M. de la Saviniere). |