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10. cyjfopXEKusi. 121 



1. Harpyia cephalotes. B. M. 



Groy, back with a black vertebral streak, beneath rather paler ; 

 arm-bone 2 inches lines. 



Ilarp-yia Pallasii, Desm. ; Tenun. 3Ion. ii. p. 98, t. 39. Cephalotes 

 Pallasii, Geoff. Ann. Mus. xv. Vesp. cephalotes, Pallas, Spic. Zool. 

 iii. t. 1, 2. Cephalote, Biffon, Sujyp. iii. t. 22. 



The skull oblong, short and broad, nose very short ; upper and 

 lower false grinders distinct, minute ; grinders close together. 

 Length 1 inch 3 lines, width 9 lines ; the upper cutting-teeth 

 large, occupyuig the whole space between the canines ; the lower 

 canines quite close together in front, without any cutting-teeth in 

 front. 



Hah. Georgia Island, Cuming. 



2. Harpyia albiventer. 



Fur gi'ey ; bases of the hairs grey, with blackish tips ; underside 

 paler, grey brown ; arm-bone 2 inches. 



Uronycteris albiventer, Graij, P. Z. S. 1862, p. 202 ; Ami. ^- Marj. 

 N. H. 1863, xi. p. 386. 



Hah. Morty Island, Wallace. 



Chiefly differs from H. cephalotes in the absence of the dorsal 

 streak and smaller size; may be only the young of former. 



Tribe V. CYNOPTERINA. 



Cutting-teeth |, lower in a regular series. False grinders |.|. Head 

 broad, short. Nostiils rather prominent. Grinders close together. 



10. CYNOPTERIJS. 



Head short, broad behind ; nose short, conical ; lips thick at the 

 sides ; wings fi'om sides of the back, attached to the bases of the toes ; 

 index finger clawed ; the back, shoulders, part of the ujipcrarm 

 above, edge of the ■wing near the back and the thighs, and part of the 

 intcrfcmoral membrane covered with hair : the large blood-vessel 

 from the armpit and the groin di\'ided and redi%"idcd before reaching 

 the edge of the -wing ; tail short, free at the end ; intcrt'omoral mem- 

 brane distinct, with a band on each side from base of tail to heel ; 

 thumb elongate, lower joint short, it and the base of the much 

 longer upper joint enclosed in the membrane. 



CTOopterus, part., i^ Cuv. Pachysoma, part., Is. Geoff, not Fahricius. 

 Pachysoma, sp.. Tomes. 



Found in clusters on the folded leaves of the plantain, the palmyra, 

 ic. Elliot. 



