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brown. It inhabits the continent of India, in the vicinity of Cat- 

 cutta and Pondicherry. 



3. P.phaiops. Size of the preceding. Body very large ; snout 

 long ; eyes more distant from the nostrils than from the ears ; 

 ears short and pointed ; interfemoral membrarie broad on the tibia, 

 but on the coccyx merely rudimentary and hidden by the long 

 hairs. Snout, throat, cheeks, and orbits, deep black ; the re- 

 mainder of the head and neck, and the shoulders, straw-roloured ; 

 back dark chesnut, with a few }ellowish hairs ; hairs of the under 

 parts brown at their base, and of a light straw colour at their 

 points, except on the breast, where they are entirely of a very 

 bright red. Membranes black. Inhabits Madagascar. 



4. P. poliocephalus. Smaller than P. edulis. Body thicker than 

 in the last species : interfemoral membrane broad on the metatar- 

 sus, disappearing gradually until it is entirely wanting on the 

 coccyx; ears moderate, pointed. Upper part of the head, cheeks, 

 and throat, dark cinereous, becoming griseous on the occiput ; back 

 of the neck, and part of its front, and the shoulders, reddish 

 chesnut, divided by a black band from the cinereous fur which 

 covers the remainder of the body. Inhabits Australia. 



5. P. dasymallus^ erroneously referred by Siebold in his Spici- 

 legia Faunae Japonicae to the P.rubricollis. It is smaller than the 

 P. mediuSj and its membranes of flight are less extensive pro- 

 portionally than those of any other species. Interfemoral mem- 

 brane wanting at the coccyx, rudimentary along the legs, and 

 visible at the heel alone. Ears small, pointed, almost hidden in 

 the thick fur. Face, top of the head, cheeks, throat, and region 

 of the ears, brown with a few griseous hairs ; front, sides, and 

 back of the neck, and shoulders, yellowish dirty white ; the rest 

 of the body deep brown, the points of the hairs being ochraceous. 

 Membranes deep brown. It inhabits Japan. 



6. P. vulgaris, Geoff. It is the Vespertilio Vampyrus of 

 Schreber ; but not of Linne or Gmelin, which refers to a species 

 that cannot now be determined with certainty. 



7. P. rubricollis^ Geoff. The name of this species has been fre- 

 quently misappropriated, and is in fact applicable to seven out of 

 the eight larger Pteropi, in all of which the neck is more or less red. 



