646 " jiKGJiRors. 



licuKje. The riiilippiues, generally. Thus f'ai- known from Luzon 

 (bhe provinces of Albay, llocos, Pangasinan, Pampanga, Nueva- 

 Ecija), Mindoro (Calapan), and Mindanao. 



Type, a subadult male (skull with no distinct sign of immaturity, 

 Init epiphyses of metacarpals separate), preserved in alcohol, col- 

 lected by Jagor at ])araga, province of Albay. Luzon, Berlin Museum 

 n. 2523. For measurements see pp. 075, 677, 679. 



20. MEG^ROPS, Pit. 



Cijnoptems (pt.), Dobson, Cat. Chir. B. M. p. 80. 



Type. 

 1841, 31egera, Temniinck, Man. Mamm. ii. p. 274 ('pre- 

 occupied by Mefcerri, "VVagler, 1830, a genus of 

 Keptilia, and by Mrgeera, Robineau-Desvoidy, 



18-30, a genus of Diptera) M. ecaudatus. 



1 865.* Megifcrops, Prffrs, MB. A It. Berlin, 1865 (22 May), 



p. 256 M. ecaudatus. 



Pachysoma (pt., Jicc E. Geoff.), Temminch, Mo7i. Mamm. ii. pp. 50, 

 91 (1837: ^cni\s=i Ci/?inpierus-\- Mt'f/(erops-\- C/iiirma.r) • Jfaf/ner, 

 Sc/ireber's Sdug., &iippl. i. p. 362 (1831): subg. of Pterojuis = 

 Ciirwpterus pt.-f-J/fyrwjp.s-f Chirona.v). 



Megera (misspelling, for Mci/(eru), Temminck, Mon. Mamm. ii. 

 )). 274 (1841) ; Lesson, N. Tab/. M. An., Matmn. p. 1-5, n. 45 

 (1842) ; Gervnh, Hist. Nat. Mam7n. i. p. 191 (1854). 



Megan-a (preoccupied), 2'emvu'ncA-, Mon. Mamm. ii. p. 357 (1841 : 

 description reprinted in L'Echo du Monde Savant, viii. no. 654, 

 p 452, 7 Aug. 1841) ; Gruij, List Mamm. B. M. p. xix (1843) : 

 id., Voy. ' Sidphw,^ Zool. i. p. 29 (1844) ; id., Zool. ' Samaratu/,' 

 Vert. p. 12 (1849); Wagner, Schr^ber's Siiug., Suppl. v. p. 611 

 (1853-55 : subg. of Pferopm); Gray, P. Z. S. 1866, p. 64} id., 

 Cat. Monk. ^-c. p. 123 (1870). 



Meg.-ernps, Peters, /. s. c (1865) ; id., MB. Ak. Berlin, 1867, p. 867 ; 

 Dobson, Mon. As. Chir. pp. 24, 29 (1876 : subg. of Cynopfervs) ; 

 id.. Cut. Chir. B.M. pp. 81, 87 (1878: subg. of Cynopterus) ; 

 L^eche, Lnnds Univ. Arsskr. xiv. pp. 25, 34 (1878: dentition); 

 Matschie, Megachir. p. 79 (18('9 : subg. of Ptmochirus) ; Miller, 

 Ftt7n. ^- Gen. Bats, p. 51 (1907: characters). 



Cynopterus {nee E. Geoff.), Fitzinyer, SB. Ak. Wien, Ix. Abth. i. 

 p. 640 (1870 : single species, C. ecaudatus ; true Cjjtiopterits 

 stvled Pachysoma) . 



* PaliTier (Ind. Gen. Mamm. p. 404 ; !9<34) dates the name Megrtrops from 

 1863. on the basis of the following reference: " Haudb. Zool. I. 5ter Boyen, 

 [p.] 07, Mar., 1863 (unpublished?)." This evidently refers to Peters, Carus, 

 iiiid Gerstiifker, Handbuch dei- Zoologie. In the ' Vorwort ' to the first 

 Tolume of that book it is intimated that Peters was to have worked out tbe 

 Class of Vertebj-ates, but withdrew from the collaboratorship, whereupon the 

 Vertebrates were taken over by Carus and issued, somewbat delnyed, in 

 1868-75. It appears highly probable that Peters, prior to bis withdrawal 

 in 1865, had ^tartt;d working out tbe Mammalia for the ' Handbuch,' and even 

 liad several sheets printed, but, so far as can be seen from the lists of published 

 books nf that period, nothing of Peters's work was distributed to the subscribers 

 to tke • Eniidfci^th.' 



