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]).
In coloration and most cranial dimensions the specimens listed above agree with specimens of D. i. inermis from Alu, Shortland, and Rubiana (Andersen, 1909c:532; 1912:475, 476), Bougainville (Troughton, 1936:348, 349), and Rennell (Hill, 1963:74). The forearm in the adult male holotype of "nesea," from Shortland, is 109.5 as opposed to 109.0 in an adult female topotype of inermis from Ugi (Andersen, 1912:478) in the southeastern part of the archipelago (see [Fig. 9]). Forearms of specimens of D. i. inermis from Vella Lavella are 107 to 112 (measurements from labels because forearms of these specimens were broken and therefore could not be remeasured). Forearms of specimens from Fauro, Florida, Guadalcanal, and Rennell are 103.6 to 110.0 (see Hill, 1956:74). Variation in length of forearm probably is not significant because no cline is evident (see [Fig. 9] and [Table 2]).