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Asia. Hair of neck-collar slender ', weak. 



1. Cynopterus marginatus. B. M. 



Brown, often rufous-washed, greyer beneath. Male. Side of throat 

 with more or less intense-red radiating hairs. 



Pteropus marginatus, F. Cuvier j Geoff. Ann. du Mtis. xv. p. 97, t. 8. 



Hub. India and the Islands. 



Var. Elliotii. Fur brown ; white margin of car well marked ; arm- 

 bone 2 inches 9 lines ; skull,T.ength 1 inch 3 lines, breadth 9 lines ; 

 upper cutting-teeth close together, the outer converging. B. M . 



Cynopterus marginatus (c and d), Gerrard, Cat. Bones B. M. p. 58. 



Hah. India : Madras, Sir John Boihau (in spirit) ; Madras, Elliot, 

 stuffed (mulo and fenialo). 



Var. ceylonensis. Fur blackish brown, underside rather greyer ; 

 white margin of ear narrow, indistinct ; arm-bone 2 inches 4 lines. 



Hah. Ceylon, Thivaites (male and female in spirits). B. M. 



Var. titthcecheilas. Fur dull brown, underside rather greyer ; hair 

 of side of throat and chest very short, with a slight rufous tinge ; 

 forearm-bone 2 inches and 7 lines. B. M. 



" Pachysoma tittluuchoilus, Is. Geoff.," Temm. Man. i. pp. 198, 

 201, t. 15. f. 17, 24 ; ii. p. 192, t. 35. f. 8 ! (from Mus. Leyden). Cy- 

 nopterus tittlnocheilus, Temm., Horsf. MS. 



Hah. Malacca, Griffith. 



Var. brevic-audatum. Fur reddish brown ; crown of head and nape 

 rathor darker, duller ; sides of the neck bright red ; abdomen pale 

 brown ; forearm-bone 2 inches 7 lines. B. M. 



Pachysoma brevicaudatum, Is. Geoff. ; Temm. Man. ii. p. 92, t. 30. 

 f. 20, 21 ! Tomes, P. Z. S. 1858, p. 537 ; 1800, p. 50 ! Cynopterus 

 brevicaudatus, Gray, List Mamm. B. M. p. 39. Pteropus brevi- 

 caudatus, Fischer, Syn. Cynopterus marginatus (&), Gerrard, Cat. 

 Bones B. M. p. 58 ! 



Hah. Sumatra, from Mus. Leyden ; Java? skeleton, from Mus. 

 Leyden. Skull 1 inch 1 line long ; forcarm-bono 2 inches 3 lines ; 

 uppor cutting-teeth slender, rather far apart, long ; upper front false 

 grindors very small. 



Seo also 



a. Pachysoma Diardii, Is. Geoff. Diet. Class. II. Nat. xiv. p. 705 ; 



Temm. Mon. ii. p. 95, Sumatra. 



b. P. Duvaucellii, Is. Geoff. Diet. Class. H. Nat. xiv. p. 705; Temm. 



Mon. ii. p. 95, Sumatra. Sides of the neck not so much and 

 intensely red as in P. Horsfieldii. A skeleton in the British 

 Museum sent from the Leyden Museum as Cynopterus mar- 

 ginatus, Temm., has the skull 1 inch 5 linos, the forearm-bone 

 3 inches 1 lino long, and the upper cutting-teeth close, the 

 outer rather converging. — Gerr. Cat. Bones B. M. p. 58. 



