3IAl'I!0C:I,(:ssrs. «- - I 



rcspoctively, 7^0 71G, and G7U, i.e. the Uur.i is the longc.l, the 

 itth the shorest tlie fourth intermediate; in MacroyU.ys thl 

 indices are ,2b 7;«, and 740, i. e. the metacarpals are practical v 

 equal in length, thongh with a slight tendency of the fif h , 

 hecome the longest the third the shortest, and this change it should 

 he noted, ,s effected hy a shortening of the third, a .light lei;g hen ng 

 of the fourth, and a considcrahle lengthening of the fifth r>) at 

 the same tune in Ma<-ro,;Jos.ys,hoth plialanges of the third,' fourth, 

 and fifth digits arc distinctly lengthened: (3) owing to all thee 

 changes tlie total length of the third, fourth, and fifth digits is in 

 .U.croglossns greater than m 3/n,alorfIossus, the indices being in the 



45b,and JJ9,^...the fifth digit is in .V.aW'^.s.s lengthened 

 hy about 10 per cent., the fourth by 5, the f hi d by only 3 (euin 

 I-re table below, showing in upper row wing-indiL of jS- 

 :fo...s, calculated from about UU individuals representing all forms 

 kno^yn in lower row those of JfegaIo<;hss,A General si/e o 

 n.jnnals as^y.;«/o,;/o....; upper half of forearm aiS i ear th 

 uho e of tibia densely ,:lothcd above (distal half of tibia nak^d h. 

 ^U;,alo,;h,sus); colour of fur much ligl,ter than in Me.aJoulossu^ 

 — ying on upperside from russet Pronfs brown as darkei ex rem; 

 t.. wood- brown as lightest, with paler underparts, but like .S W 

 .7 ... wi h a more or less conspicuous median longitudinal str pe 

 <|t darker brown ron, crown to nape of neck : no neck tufts ( wdl- 

 ic.elopc^d in adult males of Eo.n,cter;s and even more so in rame 

 -sex of Jfegaloglossiis). 'u ^ame 



i^iexunl difayntiution.- Zygonmtic breadth of skull avera-in- 

 larger in males (as usual in Megachiroptera). Xo sexual dlff re^t^ 

 n, colour nor in the fur of the foreneck (compare stron-^devd'H 

 n^ent of neck-tufts in males of Me./aJoglossas). ° ^ 



R„n:/e.~ior distribution of species and subspecies see table n 75-> 

 -y.nnntuju,, it will be observed, occupies the north-western western" 

 and south-western portions of the area inhabited by the genu ' 

 ^1/. h,gocJnlu. the northern, central, and eastern; thev ^5 

 nowheiv to occur together. • ''J^P^'^^ 



