98 PTEROMDiG. 



** Nose of skull short, broader titan long. Grinders la rye. False yr littler s 

 thick. ( j onyx of lower jaw with an acute angle. Teeth overlapping, 

 Colugo. 



2. Galeopithecus philippinensis. The Broad-headed Colugo. P>. M. 



The second and third upper grinders higher than broad, conical, 

 rather compressed, with a small dentation on each side ; the front 

 upper very small, nicked ; the third highest ; the first lower toothed; 

 the second conical. 



Galeopithecus philippinensis, Waterh. P. Z. S. 1838, p. 119; Trans. 

 Zool. Soc. ii. 



Hab. Philippines. 



Total length 20 inches ; skull 2 inches 7 lines ; five hinder grinders 

 10 lines lone-. 



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2. GALEOLEMUR. 

 Tail elongate, of 21 vertebra). Arms elongate. — Temm. 

 Galcolemur, Lesson. Galeopithecus, Temm. 



Galeolemur macrurus. 



Galeolemur macrurus, Lesson. Galeopithecus macrurus, Temminck, 

 F. Japon. Mamm. p. 9. 



Hab. Ceylon. Skeleton without head. Mus. Leyden. 



Suborder IV. CHIROPTERA. 



Limbs and the very elongated fingers of the hands enclosed in a 

 thin skin. Thumb and great toe free. 



Fam. VIII. PTEROPID^S. 



Head conical. Ears simple, lateral ; tragus none. Nostrils 

 simple, rather produced. Index finger clawed (except Cephalotes). 

 Wings broad, long. Tail short or none. Interfcmoral membrane 

 narrow, margining the legs. Thumb elongate, the lower joint short, 

 it and the base of the longer slender ; upper joint enclosed in the 

 front membrane of the wing. 



Skull elongate. Cutting- teeth | or rarely -| ; the upper separated 

 from tho canines by a space on each side for the reception of the 

 lower canines, and placed in the centre of the intereanine space ; 

 lower crowded between tho canines, sometimes pressed out by them. 

 Canines elongate. True grinders |-. False grinders 1 or % ; the 

 hinder conical, oblique ; the front small, often deciduous ; some- 

 times the upper are wanting. 



Hab. The Eastern Hemisphere and its islands. 



These Bats are spread over the warmer parts of Africa and Asia, 

 and are found in many of the smaller islands of the Indian and 



