8. CEPIIALOTES. 119 



7. Eleutherura fusca. . B. M. 



Fur pale red brown ; crown of head rather dark, neck yellower, 

 chin and underside duller. Forearm-bone nearly 3 inches. 

 J fab. India? Parzudali. 

 Much brighter and redder than tho othor species. 



8. Eleutherura philippinensis. B. M. 



Fur blackish brown ; tho neck and chest paler, with a large tuft 

 of bright-ycllow-brown hair on each side of the neck ; underside 

 rather greyer ; hairy part of the back narrow, not so wide as the 

 body ; shoulder and lower part of forearm hairy ; logs bald. 



Hah. Philippine Islands : Manilla, Gould. 



The h?ir on each side of the neck radiating and converging to 

 form a ridge on the centre of the back of the neck. Upper joint of 

 thumb nearly free. 



Sec Pteropus amphxicaudalus, Geoff. Ann. Mus. xv. p. 96 ; Temm, 

 Mon. i. p. 200, t. 13. p. 200, ii. t. 3G. f. 18, 19. Pachy- 

 somia amplexicaudatum, Tomes, P. Z. S. 1860, p. 50. Above 

 brown, beneath ashy ; tail very short ; arm-bone 3 inches. 



Uab. Timor. Mus. Leydcn. 



Tribe III. CEPIIALOTINA. 



Cutting-tocth |, lower crowded before tho canines. Tail-end free. 

 Wings from the vertebral lino. Claw of index finger rudimentary. 



8. CEPHAL0TES. 



Head short and broad. "Wings from the centre of the back, 

 bald over the back. Index finger without any well developed claw; 

 but the end of the bone is curved upwards and rather produced, 

 resembling a claw. Thumb, lower joint short, upper very long; 

 the lower one and tho base of tho upper ono oncloscd in tho front 

 membrane of the wing. Intcrfemoral membrano with a muscular 

 band on each side of the tail to the heel. Tail short, enclosed at 

 the base, rudimentary, flattened, of 4 or 5 very short joints. Cut- 

 ting-teeth \, close together, the upper ones chisel-shaped, tho lower 

 rather conical, entirely filling up tho very narrow space between 

 the base of the large canines." — Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1859, p. 38. 

 Grinders ^ ; no upper false grinders in front ; lower, small, deci- 

 duous. 



Ceplialolcs, Geoff. ; F. Cuv. ; Temm. Mon. ii. 103. Ilypodorma, 

 1. Geoff. 



Cephalotes Peronii. B. M. 



Blackish brown, head blacker ; underside rather paler, reddish. 



