116 PTEROPID^. 



brown ; beneath fulvous ashy ; wings with scries of white 

 spots ; face very short. Hab. Pondichcrry ; Calcutta, lloux. 

 Perhaps adult of former. Mus. Paris. 



** Head clonr/ate, atiennated. Fur close-pressed, soft. Arm-hone very 

 hairy. JVeck of male with gland ami half-coUar of long unctnoas hairs. 

 Xantharp3da. 



2. Xantharpyia straminea. P. M. 



Pale brown, yellower on the loins ; head darker ; throat of the 

 male with a broad reddish-yellow half-collar. 



Pteropus stramineus, Geoff. Ann. Mus. xv. p. 95 ; Temm. Mon. i. 

 p. 196, t. 15. f. 12, 13 (skull), ii. p. 84; Simdevall, Stock. Vet. Acad. 

 Hand. 1842, p. 206. Xantharpyia straminea. Gray, List Mamm. 

 B. M. Pachysoma stramineuna, Tomes, P. Z. S. 1860, pp. 44, 55 ; 

 ih. 1861, t. 1.1.6? ? Pterocyon paleaceum, Peters, Monats. Akad. 

 Berl. 1865. 



Ilah. Africa : Egypt ; Senegal, Mus. Lojden ; Scnnaar, Botfa ; 

 Guinea, Pet. ; Gambia, Rendall; Sierra Leone, Strachan (in spirit). 



Skull (length above 2 inches) imperfect; hinder grinder roundish, 

 the upper rather the largest ; false grinders conical, aciite, upper 

 small, near the canines. The scrotum very large, naked, wrinkled 

 and rough, as large as two hazel nuts. 



Geoffroy and Temminck described the species from some specimens 

 which were said to have been brought by Peron from Timor ; but 

 M. Temminck, though in his first volume he declared the Timor 

 habitat " certain," in the second volume considers that he and 

 Geoffroy were misled, and that Sennaar and Senegal are the proper 

 habitats ; but Dr. Peters seems to believe that there is a Timor and 

 an African species. 



See Pteropus stramineus, Geoff. Ann. du Mus. xv. p. 45 ; Temm. 

 Monog. i. t. 15. f. 13 (skull) ; Blainv. Osteogr. Cheirop. t. 6 

 (skuU from Timor); Tomes, P. Z. S. 1861, t. 1. f. 6. 



Hab. Timor, Peron. 



Dr. Peters says this is different fi'oni the P. stramineus, Temm. 

 Monog. ii. from Africa. 



Temminck's description of the specimen in Paris, said to be 

 brought by Peron from Timor, agrees with the African specimens of 

 this animal. M. Temminck gives Timor as the "patrie certaine," in 

 vol. i. p. 195 ; but in vol. ii. p. 84 he says he was misled, and that 

 it inhabits Sennaar and Senegal. 



7. ELEUTHERURA. 



Tail short, on underside of short interfemoral membrane, free at 

 the end. Pace moderate, broad. Lower jaw strong. Grinders close 

 together. Ears elongate. Neck of the male with a gland covered 

 with radiating liairs on each side. Cutting-teeth ■^. Canines elon- 



