122 riERoriD.i:. 



* Asia. Hair of neck-collar slender, iveak. 



1. Cynopterus marginatus. B. M. 



Brown, often rufous-washed, greyer beneath. Male. Side of throat 

 with more or less intense-red radiating hairs. 



rteropus marginatus, F. Cuvier ; Geoff. Ann. dti Mus. xv. p. 97, t. 8. 



Hub, India and the Islands. 



Var. EUiotii. Fur brown ; white margin of ear well marked ; arm- 

 bone 2 inches 9 lines ; skull,^ength 1 inch 3 lines, breadth 9 lines ; 

 upper cutting-teeth close together, the outer converging. B. M. 



Cynopterus marginatus (c and d), Gerrard, Cat. Bones B. M. p. 58, 



Uab. India : Madras, Sir John Boileau (in spirit) ; Madras, Elliot, 

 stuffed (male and female). 



Var. ceylonensis. Fur blackish brown, underside rather greyer ; 

 white margin of ear narrow, indistinct ; arm-bone 2 inches 4 lines. 



Hah. Ceylon, Thiuaites (male and female in spirits). B. M. 



Var. titthcecheilus. Fur dull brown, underside rather greyer ; hair 

 of side of throat and chest very short, with a slight rufous tinge ; 

 forearm-bone 2 inches and 7 lines. B. M. 



" Pachvsoma titthreclieilus. Is. Geoff." Tenim. Mon. i. pp. 198, 

 261, 1. 15. f. 17, 24 ;_ ii. p. 192, t. 35. f. 8 ! (from Mus. Leyden). Cy- 

 nopterus titthsecheilus, Tenini., Horsf. MS. 



Hah. Malacca, Griffith. 



Var. hrevicaudatiim. Fur reddish brown ; crown of head and nape 

 rather darker, duller ; sides of the neck bright red ; abdomen pale 

 brown ; forearm-bone 2 inches 7 lines. B. M. 



PachYSoma brevicaudatum. Is. Geoff. ; Temm. Mon. ii. p. 92, t. 36. 

 f. 20, 21 ! Tomes, P. Z. S. 1858, p. 537 ; 18G0, p. 56 ! Cynopterus 

 brevicaudatus, Gray, List Mamni. B. M. p. 39. Pteropus brevi- 

 caudatus, Fischer, Si/n. Cynopterus marginatus (b), Gerrard, Cat. 

 Bones B. M. p. 58 ! 



Hah. Sumatra, from Mus. Leyden ; Java ? skeleton, from Mus. 

 Leyden. Skull 1 inch 1 line long ; forearm-bone 2 inches 3 lines ; 

 upper cutting-teeth slender, rather far apart, long ; upper fi'ont false 

 grinders very small. 



Sec also 



a. Pachjsoma Diardii, Is. Geoff. Diet. Class. H. Nat. xiv. p. 705 ; 



Temm. Mon. ii. p. 95, Sumatra. 



b. P. Duvaucellii, Is. Geoff. Diet. Class. H. Nat. xiv. p. 705; Temm. 



Mon. ii. p. 95, Sumatra. Sides of the neck not so much and 

 intensely red as in P. Horsfieldii. A skeleton in the British 

 Museum sent from the Leyden Museum as Cynopterus mar- 

 ginatus, Temm., has the skull 1 inch 5 lines, the forearm-bone 

 3 inches 1 line long, and the upper cutting-teeth close, the 

 outer rather converging. — Gerr. Cat. Bones B. M. p. 58. 



