316 mr. g. e, dobson on bats [Mar. 5, 



and eyes very conspicuous where it passes round the lower jaw in 

 front of the throat. 



Cynonycteris brachyotis. 



Cynonycteris brachyotis, Dobson, P. Z. S. 1877, p. 116. 



A large number of specimens representing all ages of this animal ; 

 so that the full size of the species can be determined with considerable 

 certainty. This scarcely differs from fhat given in my original de- 

 scription. In the largest specimen, an adult male, the forearm is 

 2 - 9 inches, or only one twentieth of an inch longer than that of the 

 type. In all, the peculiar nakedness of the shoulders is present, 

 and the fur of the sides of the neck radiates from a central point 

 near the place of origin of the antebrachial membrane, corresponding 

 to the position of neck-glands, which, in the adult male referred to 

 above, are covered on each side by a circular tuft of coarse yellow 

 hairs, as in most of the species of the genus Pteropus. The colour 

 of the fur is very similar in all, being greyish yellow-brown, the base 

 of the hairs darker ; in the immature specimens the fur is longer 

 and darker throughout. In all, except the oldest individuals, there 

 is a minute first upper premolar between the approximated canine 

 and second premolar, generally so small as to be seen with diffi- 

 culty. 



Cephalotes peronii. 



Cephalotes peronii, Geoffroy, Ann. du Museum, xv. p. 104 

 (1810). 



More than one third of the whole collection consists of specimens 

 of this species, which, therefore, appears to be very abundant in these 

 islands. 



From the yeung with milk-dentition to the aged with worn teeth, 

 all have the back equally naked from the shoulders backwards. 

 They correspond closely in measurements and other respects with 

 specimens from other parts of the Austro-Malayau subregion, of 

 which this species is eminently characteristic. 



Melonycteris melanops. 



Melonycteris melanops, Dobson, P. Z.S. June 1877, pp. 119-121, 

 figs. 4-7, and pi. xvii. 



Pteropus (Cheiropteruyes) alboscapulatus, Ramsay, Proc. Linn. 

 Soc. New South Wales, July 1877, p. 17. 



An adult female, scarcely differing in the colour of the fur from 

 those previously described, having also the white spot near the place 

 of origin of the antebrachial membrane from the shoulder. The 

 canines appear to be as large as in the male. The wings are at- 

 tached posteriorly, as in other specimens, to the base of the third 

 toe, or to the space between the bases of the second and third 

 toes. 



This is undoubtedly the species described under the name of Pte- 

 ropus {Cheiropteruyes') alboscapulatus by Mr. Pierson Ramsay in 



