Pohle (1953:130) suggested that _Dobsonia inermis_ (as well as _D. crenulata_ and _D. praedatrix_) is conspecific with _D. viridis_, but Laurie and Hill (1954:41) did not adopt his suggestion. I have not seen adequate series of _crenulata_, _praedatrix_, and _viridis_ (none of which occurs in the Solomons) to judge systematic relationships of these kinds; therefore I follow Laurie and Hill. =Dobsonia inermis inermis= Andersen 1909. _Dobsonia inermis_ Andersen, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, 4:532, December, type from San Cristobal; 1912, Andersen, Catalogue of the Chiroptera ... British Museum, 1:475. 1936. _Dobsonia inermis inermis_, Troughton, Rec. Australian Mus., 14:349, April 7, from Santa Ysabel; 1954, Laurie and Hill, List of land mammals of New Guinea, Celebes and adjacent islands, p. 41, June 30; 1956, Hill, The natural history of Rennell Island, British Solomon Islands, 1:74, November 28, from Rennell Island. 1878. _Cephalotes peroni_ (part), Dobson, Catalogue of the Chiroptera ... British Museum, p. 91; 1879, Trouessart, Rev. Mag. Zool., 3:208; 1887, Thomas, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, p. 323, March 15, from Ugi and San Cristobal; 1888, Thomas, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, p. 476, December 4; 1897, Trouessart, Catalogus Mammalium ..., 1:87. 1899. _Dobsonia peroni_ (part), Trouessart, Catalogus Mammalium ..., 2:1278. 1909. _Dobsonia nesea_ Andersen, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, 4:532, December 1, type from Shortland Island; 1912, Andersen, Catalogue of the Chiroptera ... British Museum, 1:476, from Shortland and Rubiana; 1931, Sanborn, Publ. Field Mus. Nat. Hist., Zool. Ser., 18:22, February 12, from San Cristobal. 1936. _Dobsonia inermis nesea_, Troughton, Rec. Australian Mus., 14:348, April 7, from Bougainville; 1953, Pohle, Z. Säugetierk., 17:130, October 27; 1954, Laurie and Hill, List of land mammals of New Guinea, Celebes and adjacent islands, p. 41, June 30, from New Georgia. _Specimens examined_ (13 males and three females; three in alcohol, crania extracted and cleaned).--Fauro in April, 23728, 23740, 23751; Vella Lavella in November, 23134-36, 23141, 23145, 23147, 23149, 23151, 23153; Guadalcanal in May and June, 23865, 23914, 24008; Florida in October, 24416. _Measurements._--See tables 2 and 3. _Remarks._--Heretofore, _Dobsonia inermis inermis_ was unreported from Fauro, Vella Lavella, Guadalcanal, and Florida. Apparently the subspecies occurs on most islands of the archipelago (see Fig. 9).