SPTf^EIAS. gyi 



ndsubad.al; skull. Snnmak {F. A. Surg.-Gen. G. E. 80.8 131 



^^.dad. 9s«bad. MtMulu. Sarawak, Dr^'SrilSic 1 ^"^JTu .oT''"'^ 



sks.; skulls. 2000' ; Oct 1893 ^"i^ti L^.J. J-t.J.AJ.V, 2. 



""''V-d.'afj^skun ^^'•^^"^"•«— l^-" Dr.Ch.Hose[C.]. 94.9.29.11-13. 



of no. II. 



X-.'. 2^c? ad., 1 c? juy. Upper Sarawak. C. J. Brooks, Esq. 11.1.18 1-3 



3 Sept. 1909 ((Jw^ ^'^ ■-'■ 



C. tShortridge). 



26. SPH^RIAS, Mmcr. 

 ^ o. blanfordi. 



Thoopterus (pt.), Matschic, Megachir. pp. 72 77 n899- snhcr nf 



fepha^nas, Mdler, I. s. c. (1906) ■ id., FarJ!^ Gen! Bats, p. 63 (1907). 



i)/«^nom.-Cynopterine group. Cranial rostrum somewhat 



onger and much lower than usual, premaxilla) directed obWK 



orward, postorbital foramina absent, b'rain-caso dislirctly defle'c^:!? 



Incisors ,--, cheek-teeth |; incisors slanted forward, canines ont- 



rohit;d'™'^°%''' '"?"", peculiarly diflFerentiated, triangularly 

 po nted: premolars and molars narrower than usual. Interfemoral 

 not extending beyond upper half of tibia; tail and calcar absent 

 Forearm about 50 mm. fOne species. Hah. Burma 1 



bhdl (hg. GO).-llostrum longer and much lower thin in 

 Cynopta.., front of orbit above front of m^ ; distanr rom orWt 

 to tip of mternasal suture slightly more (in CmonteriisZZ\7h^r. 

 breadth across lower edges of lachrymal foraminaf orl t to ^nares 

 sl.gMly (in L'ynopterus much) less than same breadth- depth of 

 rostrum, from mternasal suture to alveolus of i\ only subeuSal to 

 HI Cynopterus nearly twice) the breadth of the whole ow of 

 upper incisors ; supraorbital margin much less inflated thai in 

 2nopter^.s. Premaxilh^^ directed obliquely anteriorly (not h^efly 

 downward, as in Cynopterus), in simple contact below row of 

 upper incisors situated entirely in front of a line connecTi^gTonts 

 of canines. Postorbital foramina absent. Postorbital processes 



teriorly; temporal fossa narrow; no sao-ittal c-v^^i p. • ^ 

 distinctly deflected alveolar line 'if pr^^tS b tard^" 

 slightly above (in Cynopta-as considerably below) glenoid fo s^of 

 s.iuamosal. Palate essentially unmodified; maxilhrv oo h rn 

 extending backward nearly to ven.ral ma'rgin ol or^iJal c'a;-;;: 



