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the orifice slightly exceeds that of: the muzzle from the eye to the 

 nostril. Body very short and thick. Tail very short and slender 

 and completely concealed by the fur, which is long and dense. 



Colour slaty blue with a greyish or silvery tinge, tips of the 

 hairs sooty brown. 



Dimensions of an adult female : head and body 2*9 inches, tail 

 O25, ear from orifice 0-6, forearm 2-2. 



Distribution. South Andaman Island, whence a single specimen, 

 the only one hitherto recorded, was obtained by Dr. Stoliczka. 



142. Cyuopterus blanfordi. The tailless short-nosed Fruit-Bat. 



Cynopterus blanfordi, Thomas, Ann. Mus, Civ. Cfenova, ser. 2 a, x 

 (1891). 



No tail. Only a trace of an interfemoral membrane. Ears 

 naked, rounded at the tip, a distinct lobe at the base of the outer 

 margin. Fur long on the body and legs and especially between 

 the legs. 



Colour dark brown with a greyish tinge, inner margin of the 

 ear whitish. 



Dimensions of an adult female in spirit : head and body 2'5 

 inches, ear from orifice 0-6, forearm 2. 



Distribution. Karennee, where specimens were obtained by Mr. 

 Tea. 



Genus CARPONYCTERIS, Lydekker (1891). 

 Syn. Macroglossus, F. Cuv. (1825) ; nee Macroglossa, Ochs. (1816). 



Muzzle cylindrical, very long and narrow ; nostrils with the 

 margins not projecting, though a shallow groove divides them. In 

 some cases this is continued as a fine vertical impressed line across 

 the upper lip, but generally the upper lip is not grooved ; it is naked 

 and convex in the middle. Tongue very long and attenuated, 

 covered with numerous long brush-like papillae. Index finger with 

 a claw, metacarpal bone of middle finger equal to the index finger 

 or longer than it. AVings from the sides of the hairy back and 

 from the base of the fourth toe ; tail very short, quite rudimentary 

 or wanting. 



Dentition : i. |, c. j^j, pm. ^jj|, m. |^|. The incisors small and 

 rather wide apart from each other, the molars very small and weak 

 with low crowns, the first upper premolar scarcely inferior in size 

 to the second. 



But a single species is known. 



143. Carponycteris minima. The small long-tongued Fruit-Bat. 



Pteropus minimus, Geoff. Ann. Mus. xv, p. 97 (1810). 



Macroglossus minimus, Blijth, J. A. S. B. xxviii, p. 293 ; id. Cat. 

 p. 21 ; id. Mam. Birds Burma, p. 15 ; Dobson, J. A. S. B. xlii, 

 pt. 2, p. 205, pi. xiv, fig. 11 (ear) ; id. Mon. As. Chir. p. 34 ; 

 id. Cat. Chir. B. M. p. 96 ; Anderson, Cat. p. 107. 



