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the suggestion. The voluminous lips would do good service during 
the squeezing operation, by preventing the escape of the juices, and 
very possibly the prominent rim across the back part of the palate 
might assist in constricting the mouth posteriorly, until a sufficient 
amount of fluid was collected to be swallowed, the more solid parts 
being rejected. The only suggestion I can make concerning the 
long and canine-like premolars is, that they may assist in gathering 
the fruit ; but it should be remembered that the Pteropz, proper, 
have these teeth considerably developed, and therefore their promi- 
nence in Epomophorus must not be dwelt upon too strongly. 
Dr. Andrew Smith says of Pteropus leachii that it repairs to Cape 
Town and its vicinity when the grapes are ripening, from which we 
are led to suppose that this fruit constitutes at that time their food. 
The Epomophori would be peculiarly fitted for such a régime as 
this, but we have at present no positive evidence that the grape is 
actually their food. 
1. EPoMOPHORUS MACROCEPHALUS, Ogilby, sp. 
Pteropus macrocephalus, Ogilb. Proc. Zool. Soe. iii. p. 101, July 
1835; Wagn. Supp. Schreb. Saugeth. i. p. 367,1840; Schinz, Synop. 
Mamm. i. p. 135, 1844. ; 
Pt. epomophorus, Bennett, Proc. Zool. Soc. iii. p. 149, Oct. 1835 ; 
Wagn. Supp. Schreb. i. p. 367, 1840. 
Pt. megacephalus, Swains. Nat. Hist. & Class. Quad. p. 92, 1835. 
Epomophorus whitei, Bennett, Trans. Zool. Soc. v. 2. p. 38. pl. 6, 
Oct. 1835; Gray, Mag. Zool. Bot. ii. p. 504, 1838; Cat. Mamm. 
Brit. Mus. p. 38, 1843. 
Pachysoma whitei et P. macrocephala, Temm. Esquiss. Zool. Cote 
Guiné, pp. 65 et 70, 1853. 
I regret that I am unable to continue the specific name first asso- 
ciated with the generic one now made use of, but that given to the 
female of the species by Mr. Ogilby has unquesticnably the priority, 
and must therefore be adopted. Of the names given by Mr. Ogilby 
and Mr. Swainson it is impossible to say which has the precedence ; 
E have therefore chosen that which appears most appropriate. 
Of all the species this one appears to typify most strikingly the 
genus Epomophorus. The head is very long, or rather the face, the 
distance from the eye to the nose being fully twice that of the 
distance from the eye to the ear. The nostrils are somewhat tubular, 
and a deep notch passes vertically between them, dividing the upper 
lip in half. As far as can be gathered from dried specimens, the 
lips attain in this species their full development, being perfectly 
capable, when softened, of distention to fully three times the extent 
of those of Pteropus rubricollis, a species of nearly similar size. The 
ears are small, ovoid, and narrowed at the tip, and, with the excep- 
tion of two tufts of white hair, naked; these tufts are of fine short 
hair, and are placed at their two borders, quite at the root. 
The antibrachial membrane is broader than in the other species, 
being as much as 8 or 9 lines at the elbow, and nearly as much where 
