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100.5 (98.1-104.0)
105.3 (104 -107 )
108.4 (105 -112 ) 2nd metacarpal
43.6 (42.6- 45.2)
48.1 ( 45.9- 50.9) 3rd metacarpal
61.5 (59.8- 62.9)
67.6 ( 65.2- 68.5) 4th metacarpal
57.5 (56.5- 58.5)
62.5 ( 58.7- 65.5) 5th metacarpal
59.0 (57.0- 60.5)
64.4 ( 61.8- 66.0)
Greatest length
of skull
42.4 (42.1- 43.5)
44.0 (43.0-45.6)
45.9 ( 45.2- 47.4) Condylobasal
length
40.4 (39.5- 41.3)
41.7 (41.1-42.6)
43.6 ( 43.1- 45.0) Zygomatic
breadth
25.6 (24.9- 26.8)
26.5 (25.7-27.6)
27.9 ( 27.2- 28.5) Breadth of
braincase
16.8 (16.5- 17.4)
18.0 (17.1-19.9)
17.9 ( 16.7- 19.0) Breadth across
upper canines
8.4 ( 8.1- 8.7)
9.2 ( 9.2- 9.5) Breadth across
first upper
molars
12.1 (11.8- 12.6)
13.1 ( 12.6- 13.3) Length of
maxillary
tooth-row
15.6 (15.5- 15.8)
16.4 (16.0-17.2)
16.4 ( 15.9- 17.0) Length of
mandibular
tooth-row
17.1 (16.8- 17.6)
17.8 (17.3-18.4)
18.2 ( 17.8- 19.4) ----------------+------------------+-----------------+-------------------
_Measurements._--Comparative measurements of the subspecies _inermis_ and _minimus_ are given in Table 2. Some measurements of the type are as follows: Length of head and body, 147; tail vertebrae, 31; hind foot, 25; ear, 21; length of forearm, 99.5; 2nd metacarpal, 42.8; 3rd metacarpal, 62.7; 4th metacarpal, 58.5; 5th metacarpal, 59.1; greatest length of skull, 42.2; condylobasal length, 40.6; zygomatic breadth, 25.8; breadth of braincase, 16.8; length of maxillary tooth-row, 15.8; length of mandible, 31.2.
_Remarks._--_Dobsonia inermis minimus_ is the smallest subspecies of _Dobsonia inermis_. Specimens from Santa Ysabel, southeastward of Choiseul, are slightly larger than the type and paratypes of _minimus_.
As can be seen in the scatter diagram (Fig. 8), a male from Santa Ysabel is as large as one male and most females of _D. i. inermis_. The other three specimens from Santa Ysabel also are slightly larger than specimens of _minimus_ from Choiseul, but are much smaller than specimens of _D. i. inermis_, and, therefore, are referred to _D. i.
minimus_.
Although there is a cline in size of _Dobsonia inermis_ from Choiseul to Florida (generally southward; Fig. 9), no cline in size is apparent between Choiseul and Fauro (generally westward). Specimens of _D.
inermis_ from Fauro are average for the subspecies _inermis_; there is no evidence, in the small series available, of intergradation between _minimus_ on Choiseul and _inermis_ on Fauro.
_Specimens examined_ (eight males and three females, all originally in alcohol; seven crania, all adults, extracted and cleaned).--Choiseul in March, 23565, 23628, 23637, 23665-67, 23640, 23714, 23716 (holotype), 23717, 23720. Ellis LeG. Troughton kindly examined and measured nos.
AM-M. 3693[M], AM-M. 3694[M], AM-M. 3937[F], and AM-M. 3940[F], from Santa Ysabel in the Australian Museum.
Subfamily Macroglossinae
=Macroglossus= F. Cuvier
1824. _Macroglossus_ F. Cuvier, Des dents des mammiferes ...
zoologiques, p. 248.
1840. _Kiodotus_ Blyth, _in_ Cuvier's animal kingdom ..., p. 69.
1891. _Carponycteris_ Lydekker, _in_ Flower and Lydekker, mammals living and extinct, p. 654.
1902. _Odontonycteris_ Jentink, Notes Leyden Mus., 23:140, July 15.
_Macroglossus_, the widest-ranging genus of macroglossine bats, occurs from southeastern Asia to the southern islands of the Solomon Archipelago (see Ellerman and Morrison-Scott, 1966:101; Laurie and Hill, 1954:44). One species, known also from Celebes and New Guinea, occurs in the Solomons and is represented there by an endemic subspecies.
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