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Var. Horsfieldii. Fur dark brown, paler on the sides of the throat 

 and back ; head darker ; abdomen grey white. Male. Neck and 

 sides of body very bright rufous. Female. Neck reddish ; sides 

 grey ; forearm-bone 2^ inches ? B. M. 



Pteropus marginatus, Horsf. Zool. Java, i. I Cynopterus Horsfieldii 

 Gray, List. Mamm. B. M. p. 38 ! 



Hah. Java, Horsfield. 



See Pteropus melanocephalus, Temm. Mon. i. p. 190, t. 12, t. IG. 

 f. 8, 4 ; ii. t. 35. f. 10, t. 36. f. 22, 23. Pachysoma melano- 

 cephalus, Is. Geoff. Hah. Java. Ashy brown ; beneath dull 

 white ; crown and nose black. 



Var. hrachyotis. Fur dull brown ; throat and sides of neck red ; 

 arm-bone 2 inches 4 lines. B. M. 



Pachysoma hrachyotis, MiiUer, Van cler Hpeven, Tijdschr. v. p. 146 ; 

 Ttmmi. Mon. ii. p. 362 ! 



Hah. Bonieo : in spii'it, from Mus. Leyden. I see no difference in 

 the length of the ears between this and the other species. 



Var. philippensis. Fur pale reddish brown, paler beneath. B.M. 

 Pachysoma titthsecheilus, Waterhouse, Mus. Zool. Soc. ! 



Hah. Philippines, Cuming (male and female, in spirit). 



Var. Cumingii. Fur blackish brown, rather greyer beneath ; the 

 margin of the ears narrow ; arm-bone 2 inches 6 lines ; iuterfcmoral 

 membrane hairy; tail slender, free. B. M. 



Pachysoma brevicaudatum, Waterhouse, Mus. Zool. Soc. ! 



Hah. Philippines, Cuming (male and female, in spirit). 



Var. nigrescens. Fur brown ; head rather dark ; nose, orbit, and 

 cheek blackish ; throat, sides of the neck, and beneath grey brown. 



Hah, Morty Island, Wallace. 



*• Africa. Hair of neck-eollar thick, harsh. 



2. Cynopterus collaris. B. M. 



Fur reddish brown, beneath rather duller ; throat witli a broad 

 collar of rigid unctuous red hairs ; hairy part of back rather narrow ; 

 shoulders and lower half of forearm hairy ; forearm-bone 2^ inches. 

 Young. 



Xautharpyia collaris, Gray, List. Mamm. B. M. 1843.| 



Hah. "West Africa, Currer (from Haslar Museum) ; Angola, Well- 

 inch (in spirits). 



See also Ptenochinis, a subgenus of Cynopterus, Peters. 



11. MEGJERA. 



Tail none. Lower joint of the thumb vcrj- short. Back, shoulders, 

 forearms, thigh, base of intcrfcmoral membrane, and wings near the 



