118 PTKROPIDiE. 



3. Eleutherura collaris. B. M. 



Dull brown ; head darker ; underside greyer, from tho grey ends 

 of tho hairs ; fur on under surface of wing brownish ; the lower 

 part of tho upper thumb-joint enclosed in the membrane ; forearm- 

 bone 3^ inches ; skull, length 1 inch 7 lines ; tho upper hinder 

 grinder square, rather small, lower oblong, narrow ; tho front lower 

 false grinder thick, upper very small, slender ; tbo palate more 

 arched than in E. cegyptiaca. 



Pteropus Leachii, A. Smith, Zool. Journ. iv. p. 433 ; III. Z. S. Africa, 

 t. p. 48 ; Tetnm. Monog. ii. p. 89. P. ainplexicaudatus (part.), 

 Temm. Man. i. p. 100. Var. greyer, P. hottentotus, Temm. Man. 

 ii. p. 87, t. 36. f. 10, 17 (skull). Eleutherura hottentota, Gray, 

 Zool. Staph, p. 29. P. collaris, Licht. Doull. ; III. Abh. Bed. Akad. 

 1815, p. 84. Cynonyctcris collaris, Peters, Mossamb. p. 25. 



Ilab. South Africa : Cape of Good Hope, Brandt ; Natal, 

 Verreaux. 



4. Eleutherura marginata. B. M. 



Dull brown, rather paler below ; the hairy part of the back 

 narrow, rather arched on the sides. 



Vespertilio margiuatus, Buchanan Hamilton. Pteropus titthsecheilus, 

 Temm. Manor/. P. pyrivorus, JECodgs. P. Z. S. 1836, p. 46 (B. M.). 

 Cynopterus margiuatus, Gray, List Mamm. B. M. C. horsiiehlii, 

 Gerrard, Cat. Bones B. M. p. 58. 



Ilab. India, Buchanan Hamilton ; Nepal, Boys, Hodgson, Strick- 

 land. 



The grinders £ : the hinder upper stout, about two-thirds the size of 

 tho preceding ono ; the hinder lower rather larger, oblong, longer. The 

 front lower false grinder larger, compressed, with a triangular crown ; 

 tho upper vory small, cylindrical. Lower grinders very close together, 

 forming a continued line. 



This Bat differs from the Cynopteri from India, with which it has 

 been usually confounded, in the wings being bald above, near the 

 back, and only hairy on the shoulders and lower half of the upper- 

 arm, and also in being larger ; the legs are bald. 



5. Eleutherura fuliginosa. B. M. 



Sooty brown ; the underside rather greyer, from the small grey 

 tips of the hairs ; sides of tho throat with two large radiating patches; 

 hands dark-coloured to the base. 



Hab. Siam : Loa Mountains, Mouhot. 



6. Eleutherura infumata. B.M. 



Fur of back blackish brown, greyish -washed ; neck yellower ; 

 underside greyer; front of chest slightly washed with reddish 

 brown. Length of forearm-bone 3^ inches. 



Ilab. Mores, Wallace. 



