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Var. Horsfieldii. Fur dark brown, paler on the sides of the throat 

 and hack ; head darker ; abdomen grey white. Male. Neck and 

 sides of body very bright rufous. Female. Neck reddish; sides 

 grey ; forcarm-bono 2£ inches ? B. M. 



Fteropus marginatus, Horsfi Zool. Java, t. ! Cynopterus Ilorsfieldii 

 Gray, List. Mamm. B. M. p. 38 ! 



Hob. Java, Horsjield. 



See Fteropus melanocephalus, Terarn. Mon. i. p. 190, t. 12, t. 10. 

 f. 3, 4 ; ii. t. 35. f. 10, t. 3G. f. 22, 23. Fachysoma melano- 

 cephalus, Is. GcofT. Ilab. Java. Ashy brown ; beneath dull 

 white ; crown and nose black. 

 Var. brachyotis. Fur dull brown ; throat and sides of neck red ; 

 arm-bone 2 inches 4 lines. B. M. 



Pachysomia brachyotis, Miiller, Van der Jlocvcn, Tijdschr. v. p. 14G ; 

 Temm. Mon. ii. p. 3G2 ! 



Hab. Borneo : in spirit, from Mus. Leyden. I sec no difference in 

 the length of the cars between this and the other species. 



Var. philippensis. Fur palo reddish brown, paler beneath. B.M. 

 Pachysomia titthajcheilus, Watcrhouse, Mus. Zool. Soc. ! 



Hab. Philippines, Cuming (male and female, in spirit). 



Var. Cumingii. Fur blackish brown, rather greyer beneath ; the 

 margin of the ears narrow ; arm-bone 2 inches 6 lines ; interfcmoral 

 membrane hairy; tail slender, free. B. H. 



Pachysomia brovicaudatum, Watcrhouse, Mus. Zool. Soc. ! 



Hab. Philippines, Cuming (male and female, in spirit). 



Var. nigrescens? Fur brown ; head rather dark ; nose, orbit, and 

 check blackish ; ' throat, sides of tho neck, and beneath grey brown. 



Hab. Morty Island, Wallace. 



** Africa. Hair of neck-collar thick, harsh. 



2. Cynopterus collaris. B. M. 



Fur reddish brown, beneath rather duller ; throat with a broad 

 collar of rigid unctuous red hairs ; hairy part of back rather narrow ; 

 shoulders and lower half of forearm hairy ; forearm-bone 2\ inches. 

 Young. 



Xantharpyia collaris, Gray, List. Mamm. B. M. 1843.] 



Hab. West Africa, Currer (from Haslar Museum) ; Angola, Well- 

 wich (in spirits). 



See also Ftenochirus, a subgenus of Cynopterus, Peters. 



11. MEG.ERA. 



Tail none. Lower joint of the thumb very short. Back, shoulders, 

 forearms, thigh, base of interfcmoral membrane, and wings near (he 



