CHIRONAX MELANOCKPriALUS. 661 



Naf. Maimii. (C'oinjil. liuffon), v. p. 61 (1836) ; Tetnminck, 

 Mull. Mainin. ii. p. f^'I, pi. xxxv. liy. 10 (head), pi. .vx.vvi. tijrs. --, 

 'S.i (.^kull) (18o7); Mac(/illivrf(i/, Cuoicr's An. Kini/d. ii. p. \'2, 

 pi. vii. J3, fig-. 5 (head : copy froui Temminck) (1840) ; >S'. Mullev, 

 Temminck's Nat. Gesch. Ned. Ov. Bez., Zoogd. pp. 21, -58 (1841- 

 44); Lesson, N. Tabl. R. An., Mamm. p, 14, n. 196 (1842); 

 [Anoni/mous], Mem. Quadr. <$■ Cheir. Arch. Ind. p. 115 (1864) ; 

 Fitzuujer, SB. Ak. Wien, 1.x. Abth. i. p. 639 (1870). 



Cynopterus melanocephalus, Gray, Mai/. Zool. !^- Bot. ii. p. 504 

 (1838) ; IMevH, MB. Ak. Berlin, 1867, p. 867 (external mea- 

 surements of a cotvpe) ; Dobsun, Cat. Chir. B. M. p. 85 (1878) ; 

 Trouessart, Rev. i^- Mar/. Zool. (3) vi. p. 207, n. 323 (1879) ; 

 Jentink, Cat. Ost. Mamm. p. 266 (1887: cotypes) ; id., Cat. 

 Si/st. Mamm. p. 155 (1888: cotvpes) ; Willink, Nat. Tijd. Ned. 

 ind. Ixv. p. 277 (1905); Miller, Fain. Sf Gen. Bat's, p. 49 

 (1907). 



I'teropus [Paehysoma] melanocephalus, Wa</ner, Schreber^s Sdut/., 

 Suppl. i. p. 36*5 (1839) ; id., op. c, Siippl. v. p. 610 (1853-55). 



Cynopterus [Megajrops] melanocephalus, Trouessart, Cat. Mamm. 

 1. p. 87, n. 465 (1897). 



Cynopterus [Thoopterus] nielanocephalus, Mafxchie, Megachir. 

 p. 77 (1899); Trouessart, Cat. Mamm., Suppl. p. 63. n. 545 

 (1904). 



Far. — Tibia clothed above (juite or iicarh" to atikle ; dibUibiition 

 of fur otherwise as in Biilionifcttris. 



Colour. — Cotypes so faded as to be unsuitable for description. 

 Temminck, in 1825 (I.e.), described the colours as follows : " Les 

 polls du dos de deux couleurs, d'uu blanc jauniitre a la base ct 

 d'un cendre noiratre a la pointe ; niique, sommet de la tete et 

 rauseau noirs; des polls divergens d'un centre comraun sur les cotes 

 du con, servant probablement a couvrir un appareil dont suinte une 

 Lumeur odorante. Toutes les autres parties inferieures d'un blanc 

 jaunatre et terne ; systeme cutane d'un brun fence." 



Measurements. On pp. 676, 678, 680. 



Sjjecimens examined. The cotypes of the tspecies (the only 

 examples known). 



Range. Java ; thus far known only from Bantam, Java. 



Cotypes. Species based on "des individus montes et le t^quelotte,'' 

 obtained by Van Hasselt " dans les regions moutueuses du district 

 de Bantam"; only a few individuals were found, suspended from 

 a tree. The following specimens, all of which must be considered 

 cotypes, are in the Leydcn Museum : (1-2) two mounted adnlt 

 females, " a " and " h," skull of " a " extracted (marked " h ''), 

 skull of "6" in situ; (y) the skeleton of an adidt female, "«" ; 

 and (4) an odd skull, " c." The mounted female " h " is figured 

 in Mon. Mamm. i. pi. xii., the skeleton, ibid. pi. xvi. fig. 3; the 

 origiiuil of pi. XXXV. fig. 10 (head in profile) is uncertain. The 

 mounted specimens are rather well-preserved, except for the fading 

 of the colours ; the skeleton tolerably complete ; of the skulls, that 

 of the skeleton is nearly complete, the two others more or less 

 defective. 



