PTEKOPUS JAVANICUS. 



Ord. III"^ Carnassiers, Cuvier. V? Famille. Les Cheiropteres. 



Ord. I. Primates, Linn. Syst. 



Ord. XI. Volitantia, Illiger. Fam. 32, Chiroptera. 



PTEROPUS, Briss. Erxleh. Cuv. Geoff. Illig. 

 Vespertilio, Linn. Gmel. Bocld. 

 Spectrum, Lacep. 



Char. Gen. — Dentium formula ; Primores -f, Laniarii ^, Molares ^. Laniarii 



distincti, primoribus longiores, conici. Molares obducti, coronide in medio sulco 



exarata margine utrinque carina parallela tritoria prsedita. 

 Rostrum acutum. Nasus prosthemate nullo. AuriculcB mediocres oblongge. 

 Corpus patagio digitali, lumbari, et anali, denudatis cinctum. Patagium anale 



excisum. Cauda aut brevis aut nulla. Mammce apertse duee pectorales. 

 Pedes pentadactyli, antici chiropteri, haUuce et digito primo unguiculatis, reliquis 



digitis inermibus ; postici ambulatorii. Ungues : falculte acutse, antipedum 



digitis elongatis, tribus interioribus exunguiculatis. 



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* ECAUDATI. 



Pteropus niger, collo supra rufo-ochraceo, dorso pilis albis nigrisque commistis, 



rostro mediocri. 

 Kalong, of the Javanese. 

 Pteropus edulis, Geoffr. Mem. sur les roussettes. Ann. Mus. Tom. XV. p. 90. Note. 



MS. de M. Leschenault. 

 Pteropus javanicus, Encydop. Method. Mammalogie, p. 109. Par M. A. G. 



Desmarest, 1820. 



In the examination of the Pteropus rostratus, no difficulty occurred ^^ 

 determining the species ; the characters were strongly marked, and presented no 

 variation in the numerous specimens contained in the collections of the Honourable 

 East India Company. But the minuteness of the subject did not afford the means 



