8. CEPHALOTES. 1 1 9 



7. Eleuthenira fusca. B. M. 



Fur pale red brown ; crown of head rather dark, neck yellower, 

 chin and underside duller. Forearm-bone nearly 3 inches. 

 Hah. India ? Pavzudalci. 

 Much brighter and redder than the other species. 



8. Eleutherura philippinensis. B. M. 



Fur blackish brown ; the neck and chest paler, with a largo tuft 

 of bright-yeUow-brown hair on each side of the neck ; underside 

 rather greyer ; hairy part of the back narrow, not so wide as the 

 body ; shoulder and lower part of forearm hairy ; logs bald. 



Hah. Philippine Islands : Manilla, Gould. 



The hair on each side of the neck radiating and converging to 

 form a ridge on the centre of the back of the neck. Upper joint of 

 thumb nearly free. 



See IHeroims ampleoncavdatus, Geoif. Ann. Mus. xv. p. 96 ; Temm. 

 Mon. i. p. 200, t. 13. p. 260, ii. t. 36. f. 18, 19. Paduj- 

 soma anqiJexicaudatum, Tomes, P. Z. S. 1800, p. 56. Above 

 brown, beneath ashy ; tail very short ; arm-bone 3 inches. 



Hah. Timor. Mus. Leyden. 



Tribe III. CEPHALOTINA. 



Cutting-teeth |, lower crowded before the canines. Tail-end free. 

 Wings from the vertebral line. Claw of index finger rudimentary. 



8. CEPHALOTES. 



Head short and broad. " Wings from the centre of the back, 

 bald over the back. Index finger without any well developed claw; 

 but the end of the bone is curved upwards and rather produced, 

 resembling a claw. Thumb, lower joint short, upper vciy long; 

 the lower one and the base of the upper one enclosed in the front 

 membrane of the wing. Interfemoral membrane with a muscular 

 band on each side of the tail to the heel. Tail short, enclosed at 

 tlie base, rudimentary, flattened, of 4 or 5 very short joints. Cut- 

 ting-teeth %, close together, the \ipper ones chisel-shaped, the lower 

 rather conical, entirely filling up the very narrow space between 

 the base of the large canines." — Oray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1859, p. 38. 

 Grinders ^ ; no upper false grinders in front ; lower, small, deci- 

 duous. 



Cophalotea, Gecif. ; F. Cur. ; Temm. Mon. ii. 10;J. Hypoderma, 

 /. Geoff. 



Cephalotes Peronii. B. M. 



lUaekish brown, head blatkor : underside rather paler, redtlish. 



