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.