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scarcely more distant from the nose than from the ear. It resembles 
in this respect the well-known Pachysoma stramineum. In the form 
of the ears, lips, nostrils, and indeed of all other parts taken in de- 
tail, this species is so much like the last that it will be only neces- 
sary to mention a few trifling differences, and then proceed to give 
the more important ones of dimensions. The fur in its general cha- 
racter and quality is similar to that of the last species, but it is a 
little more strungly tinged with cinnamon, and rather less spread on 
to the membranes. There is the same obscure patch of whitish 
colour on the abdomen, and the ears are similarly furnished with 
tufts of white fur at the bases of their two margins, but the conspi- 
cuous shoulder tufts of H. macrocephalus are here very fully deve- 
loped. They consist of a very slight warty excrescence clothed with 
fur, which differs from that which surrounds it only in being of a 
dirty-white colour. The membranes are a little more translucent, 
and somewhat paler in colour, than those of #. macrocephalus. 
The teeth vary but little from those of H. macrocephalus, but the 
cranium itself has the facial part much shorter, and it is further re- 
markable for the slight extension of the supra-orbital process *. 
Unfortunately, in all the erania I have seen, the hinder margin of the 
palate has been destroyed in the process of preservation, so that Iam 
able to notice only such of the transverse palatal ridges as are not 
posterior to the molar range. These are more simple in form than 
in the last species, but are equally prominent, and placed in relation 
to the teeth just as in that species. 
The following dimensions are those of three specimens which 
formerly formed part of the Museum of the Zoological Society :— 
1. 2. 3. 
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Length of the head and body .. 
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—— of the head.......... 
from eye to snout 
——w— from ear to eye .. 
of the Game. J... <. i 
Breadth of the ears.......... 
Length of the fore-arm ...... 
of the longest finger 
of the fourth finger... . 
of the thumb.:....... 
at the tibiae. ote «. +. 
of the foot and claws .. 
Expanse of wings, following the 
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* For these details I refer the reader to the excellent figures of the cranium 
of this species given by Dr. Peters under the name of EF. erypturus. 
