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81'n^RIAS BLANFOBDI. 



process low, narrow, and mu6h sloping, and the basicranial deflected 

 against the facial axis ; also the great decrease in size and number 

 of the odontoid lip papillae (otherwise so characteristic of the 

 Cynopterine bats) may come under this category of interdependent 

 modifications. The complete suppression of the tail is a character 

 exhibited by several other Cynojjterine genera, but Sphcerias ia 

 unique in this group of genera in having the interfemoral reduced 

 to a nairow rim along the femur and the upper part of the tibia 

 (parallels or approximations are found in a few unrelated genera, 

 e. g.. PUrotcs among Epomophorine, Syconyderis among Macro- 

 glossine bats); the absence of the calcar is, of course, due to the 

 fact that the interfemoral terminates far above the ankle. 



1. Spliaerias blanfordi, Thos. 



Cynopterus blanfordi, Thomas, Ann. Mus. Civ. Geneva, (2) x. p. 884 

 (25 June, 1891 : Karin Hills) ; Llanford, Faun. B. hid., Mcnnm. 

 pt. ii. p. 265 (1891) ; Thomas, Ann. Mvs. Civ. Genova, (2) x. p. 921, 

 pi. xi. tifTS. 1, 2 (interfemoral; ear) (1892: Leito, Cheba, Kavin 

 Hills, 1000 m.) ; Truuessart, Cat. Mmnm. i. p. 86, n. 460 (1897). 



Cynopterus [Tlioopterus] blanfordi, J/fl<ir/i«V, Megachir. p. 77 (1899) ; 

 ' Trouessart, Cut. Mamm., Svppl. p. 63, n. -546 (1904). 



Sphrerias blanfordi, Miller, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. xix. p. 83 (1906) ; 

 id., Fam. &,- Gen. Bats, p. 53 (1907). 



F^v. — Longer and denser than in Cynoptervs ; longest hairs on 

 back 10-11, on breast and belly 6-7 mm. Fur of upper surface 

 extending thickly on basal third or half of forearm, on membrane 

 just outside the latter, on membrane between elbow and ankle, 

 and on the whole of the hind limb to the bases of the claws. 



Colour (type, a slightly immature fera;ile, alcoholic). — Nape of 

 neck, back, rump, and tibiie dull greyish hair-brown, suffused with 

 a warmer (Front's) brown on nape, spinal region, and along mem- 

 branes ; occiput slightly paler than back; crown and interocular 

 region a little browner. Underparts uniform dull greyish hair- 

 brown, faintly duller than bade. Ears narrowly edged with white 

 anteriorly ; metacarpals brownish, membranes unmarked. — The 

 colour of fully adult individuals may differ in some details. 



Measurements. On pp. 676, 678, 680. 

 . Specimen e.vamined. The cotype catalogued below. 



liamje. Known only from the type locality, Karin Hills. Burma. 



Cotype in collection ; a second cotype (male, " forearm 50 mm.," 

 Thomas, I.e.) and a paratype are in the Genoa Museum; these 

 three being the only specimens on record (March, 1911). 



a. 2 subad.nl. ; skull. Leito, Cheba, Karin Hills, Genoa Museum 90.4.7.6. 

 1000 m. f L. Fea). [P.]. {Cotype of species.) 



