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tify that their flesh is delicate and without disagreeable flavour. I have 

 measured individuals with a greater length of body (fourteen inches and 

 a half) than is given of the Pteropus javanicus by Dr. Horsfield." 



31. PTEROPUS POLIOCEPHALUS, Temm., Monogr. I. 

 p. 179. 



HAB. New Holland. 



A. From Finlayson's Collection. 



Genus XANTHARPYIA, Gray. 



PTEROPUS, Geoffroy, Temminck, et al. 



32. XANTHARPYIA ^EGYPTIACA, Geofr. Sp. 



Pteropus aegyptiacus, Geoffr., Ann. du Mus. XV. p. 96. 

 Pteropus Geoffroyi, Temm., Monogr. I. p. 197. 

 HAB. Northern Africa. 



A. From Abyssinia, Sir W. Harris's Mission. 



Genus MACROGLOSSUS, Fred. Cuv., Mammif. 1822. 

 PTEROPUS, Geoffr., Temm., Horsf., et al. 



33. MACROGLOSSUS MINIMUS, Geoff. Sp. 



Pteropus minimus, Geoffr., Ann. du Mus. XV. p. 97. 

 Pteropus minimus, Temm., Monogr. I. p. 191, with a figure. 

 Pteropus rostratus, Horsf., Zool. Research, with a figure. 

 Macroglossus minimus, Gray, Mag. Zool. Bot. N. 12. 

 LOWO-ASSU, or Dog-bat, of the Javanese. 

 The French name, KIODOTE, appears to be a perversion of 

 the name CHODOT, applied by the Javanese to several 

 small Chiroptera. 



HAB. The whole of the Indian Archipelago, from Sumatra to 

 the Moluccas ; not abundant. 

 A. B. and C. Horsfield's Collection from Java. 

 D. Finlayson, from Siam, with a lengthened nose, perhaps 



a distinct species. 



The Macroglossus minimus is far less abundant than the Pteropus 

 edulis, but it still exists in sufficient numbers to commit serious injury 

 among the plantations and fruit-trees. Like other Pteropi it feeds on 

 fruits of every prescription, but particularly infests the various species of 

 Eugenia, or jamboo, which are cultivated in gardens. During the day 

 it remains suspended under branches of trees, or it retires under roofs 

 of old houses and sheds. At night it sallies forth like other Pteropi. 



