10. CYNOl'TEKUS. 121 



1. Harpyia cephalotes. B. M. 



Grey, back with a black vertebral streak, beneath rather paler ; 

 arm-bone 2 inches G lines. 



Ilarpyia Pallaaii, Dcsm. ; Temm. Mm. ii. p. 98, t. .*?0. Cephalotes 

 Pallasii, Geoff. Ann. 3I?is. xv. Vesp. cephalotes, Pallas, fync. Zool. 

 iii. t. 1, 2. CCphalote, Buff on, Supp. iii. t. 22. 



The skull oblong, short and broad, nose very short ; upper and 

 lower (also grinders distinct, minute ; grinders close together. 

 Length 1 inch 3 lines, width 9 lines ; the upper cutting-teeth 

 large, occupying the whole space between the canines ; the lower 

 canines quite close together in front, without any cutting-teeth in 

 front. 



Hah. Georgia Island, Cuming. 



2. Harpyia albiventer. 



Fur grey ; bases of the hairs grey, with blackish tips ; underside 

 paler, grey brown ; arm-bone 2 inches. 



Uronyctcris albiventer, Gray, P. Z. S. 18G2, p. 2G2 ; Ann. # Mag. 

 N. II. 18G3, xi. p. 38G. 



llab. Morty Island, Wallace. 



Chiefly differs from II. cephalotes in the absence of the dorsal 

 streak and smaller size; may bo only the young of former. 



Tribe V. CYNOPTEMNA. 



Cutting-teeth §, lower in a regular scries. False grindors |.j|. Head 

 broad, short. Nostrils rather prominent. Grinders close together. 



10. CYNOPTERUS. 



Head short, broad behind ; nose short, conical ; lips thick at the 

 sides ; wings from sides of the back, attached to the bases of the toes ; 

 index finger clawed ; the back, shoulders, part of the upperarm 

 above, edge of the wing near the back and the thighs, and part of the 

 interfcinoral membrane covered with hair ; the large blood-vessel 

 from the armpit and the groin divided and rcdivided beforo reaching 

 the edge of the wing ; tail short, free at the end ; interfemoral mem- 

 brane distinct, with a band on each side from base of tail to heel ; 

 thumb elongate, lower joint short, it and the base of the much 

 longer upper joint, enclosed in the membrane. 



Cynopterus, part., F. Cuv. Pachysoma, part., Is. Geoff, not Fabricius. 

 Pachysoma,, sp. ( Tomes. 



Found in clusters on the folded leaves of the plantain, the palmyra, 

 &c, Elliot. 



