120 PTEROPID^. 



Cephalotes Peronii, Geoff. Ann. du Mas. xv. p. 104, t. 7 ; Temm. Man. 

 ii. p. 100, t. 35. f. 7 ; Gray, P. Z. S. 1859, p. 38. Hypodemia 

 Pallasii, Is. Geciff. Bid. Clatss. H. Nat. xv. H. moluccensis, Quuy 

 Sf Gaim. Voij. Astrol. p. 180, t. 2. Anat. (Junior) Pteropus 

 paUiatus, &«^'. Ann. Mus. xv. p. 09. 



Hah. Timor ; Amboyna. _ B. M. 



Lip.s at the angle of the mouth wrinkled, with a series of short 

 beards on the inner edge. Skull broad, 2 inches 2 lines long, 

 1 inch b^ lines wide ; imder surface nearly flat. Grinders ^, the 

 upper hinder oblong, narrow behind ; the lower smaller, oblong. The 

 lower false grinders moderate, elongate ; the upper wanting in both 

 skulls. Lower canines very close. A second skull,length 1 inch lOlines, 

 width 1 inch 1| line; the hinder grinder oblong, lower rather the 

 smallest ; the first upper grinder near the canine ; the lower false 

 grinder crowded in between the base of 'the first g-rinder and the 

 canine ; the canine and the first and second grinders with a denticle 

 on the lower edge, more distinct in the teeth of the lower jaw. 



Section B. Tfcth'29,. Tnie grinders = . |. The fake r/rinders i . i, front 

 small, often deciduoKS. Wings from the sides of the body. Penis- 

 gland fleshy. It is the small hinder ujjjier and lower true grinders of 

 the former section that are deficient. 



Tribe IV. HARPYIANA. 



Cutting-teeth | or ^ ; lower, when present, crowded before the 

 canines. Head short. Nostrils tubular, expanding. 



9. HARPYIA. 



Head short, broad, tapering. Nostrils elongate, tubular, diver- 

 ging. The back, shoulders, thighs, edge of the wings, near the side, 

 and the interfemoral membrane hairy. Fur very soft. TaO. short, 

 free at the end, on underside of the interfemoral membrane. Lower 

 joiut of the thumb elongate, and the base of the upper one enclosed 

 in the broad membrane. Wiags arising from the sides of the body, 

 and affixed nearly to the middle of the outer toe. Index finger 

 clawed. Cutting-teeth -|, upper small, close. 



" IntermaxLUaries rudimentary, cartilaginous." — Temm. Man. ii. 

 p. 90. 



Ilarpyia, Illiger ; Temm. Mon. ii. 08. Cephalotes, Geoff. Gelasi- 

 nus. Lesson. Uronvcteris, Griii/, Ann. ^- Mag. N. II. 1803, xi. 

 p. 380. 



