11G rTERonn.Ti. 



brown ; beneath fulvous ashy ; wings with series of wliite 

 spots ; face very short. Hab. Pondicherry ; Calcutta, Rouse. 

 Perhaps adult of former. Mus. Paris. 



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Head elongate, attenuated. Far close-pressed, soft. Arm-bone very 

 hairy. Neck of nude with gland and half-collar of long unctuous hairs. 

 Xantliarpyia. 



2. Xantharpyia straminea. B. M. 



Pale brown, yellower on the loins ; head darker ; throat of the 

 male with a broad reddish-yellow half-collar. 



Pteropus stramineus, Geoff. Ann. Mas. xv. p. 05 ; Temni. Mon. i. 

 p. 196, t. 15. f. 12, 13 (skull), ii. p. 84; Simdevall, Stock. Vet. Acad. 

 Hand. 1842, p. 200. Xantliarpyia straminea, Gray, List Mamm. 

 11. M. Pachysomia straminoum, Tomes, P. 'A. S. 1800, pp. 44,55 ; 

 ib. 1801, t. 1. f. 0? PPtex'ocyon poleaceum, Peters, Mortals. Akad. 

 Perl. 1805. 



ITab. Africa: Egypt; Senegal, Mas. Lcyden ; Sennaar, Botla ; 

 Guinea, Pet. ; Gambia, Itendall; Sierra Leone, Strachan (in spirit). 



Skull (length above 2 inches) imperfect; hinder grinder roundish, 

 the upper rather the largest ; false grinders conical, acute, upper 

 small, near the canines. The scrotum very large, naked, wrinkled 

 and rough, as large as two hazel nuts. 



Geoffroy and Temminck described the species from some specimens 

 which were said to have been brought by Peron from Timor ; but 

 M. Temminck, though in his first volume he declared the Timor 

 habitat " certain," in the second volume considers that he and 

 Geoffroy were misled, and that Sennaar and Senegal arc the proper 

 habitats ; but Dr. Peters seems to believe that there is a Timor and 

 an African species. 



See Ptei'opus stramineus, Geoff. Ann. du Mus. xv. p. 45 ; Temm. 

 Monog. i. t. 15. f. 13 (skull); Blainv. Osteogr. Chcirop. t. 

 (skull from Timor); Tomes, P. Z. S. 1861, t. 1. f. 6. 



ITab. Timor, Peron. 



Dr. Peters says this is different from the P. stramineus, Temm. 

 Monog. ii. from Africa. 



Temminck's description of the specimen in Paris, said to be 

 brought by Peron from Timor, agrees with the African specimens of 

 this animal. M. Temminck gives Timor as the "patrie ceilaine," in 

 vol. i. j). 195 ; but in vol. ii. p. 84 he says ho was misled, and thai 

 it inhabits Sennaar and Senegal. 



7. ELEUTHERURA. 



Tail short, on underside of short interfemoral membrane, free at 

 the end. Pace moderate, broad. Lower jaw strong. Grinders close 

 together. Ears elongate. Neck of the male with a gland covered 

 with radiating hairs on each side. Cutting-teeth \. Canines elon- 



