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MACROGI.OSSUS. 



size. Its principal ditierences from the former are bummed up in 

 the diagnosis above (the most convenient differential characters, for 

 practical use, being the much lower p' and p^, and the subeqnal 

 length of the third, fourth, and fifth metacarpals ; in MegaJor/lossus 

 the fifth is much shorter than the third, the fourth intermediate). 

 From Syconycteris it is readily distinguished by: — (1) the wide 

 interspace between i'-i' and i,-i| (narrowly' spaced or in contact in 



Fig. 70. — Macroglof.sus mhiiiiius mhriim», J, type of subspecies. (Upper in- 

 cisor's from skull 7^1115. 6, Kediri, Java.) ? (liiiearj, front view a, 

 outline of dorsal aspect of skull \. 



Syconycteris) : (2) the very small incisors, i" being subequal to (if 

 not smaller than) i', i., to i, (in Syconycteris upper incisors much 

 larger and proclivous, and i.^ about twice the bulk of ij : (3) the 

 normally developed interfemoral and calcar (interfemoral in Syco- 

 nycteris reduced to a narrow rim along inner side of tibia, and 

 calcar rudimentary). In dried skins the third of these characters 

 is, of course, often more or less obscured. 



Shdl (figs. 70, 71 C). — Basicranial axis much more defleoted than 

 itt Eonycteris and Megcdoyhssas -, alveolar line, if continued back- 

 ward, passing through brain-case a considcriible distance above 



