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rather long, slender, and but little curved. These parts have much 

 the size and proportions of those of V. nattereri. 



Nearly the whole of the face is hairy ; but there is a naked space 

 around each eye. A thick moustache borders the upper lips, which, 

 extending from the angles of the mouth upwards and forwards, 

 joins the fur of the forehead, which extends nearly to the end of the 

 nose. The chin is destitute of hairs. The fur of the back encroaches 

 to a trifling degree on the interfemoral membrane ; and the same may 

 be said of that of the belly ; everywhere else the membranes are 

 naked. 



On all parts of the body the fur is bicoloured : above dark brown 

 at the root, with the terminal third light reddish-brown ; beneath 

 similar, but the brown at the root darker and more extended, the 

 tips of the hairs for one-fourth only of their length being greyish- 

 brown, on the abdomen whitish-brown. 



Everywhere the fur maintains its peculiar silky lustre, as much so 

 on the under as on the upper parts of the body. This quality of 

 fur will at once distinguish this species from every other which I 

 have ever seen. 



The dentition, as far as it can be studied in a stuffed specimen, is 

 as follows : — Upper incisors in pairs, placed close together, with a 

 considerable interval in the centre between the pairs, and also an in- 

 terval on each side, between them and the canines. They are rather 

 short and obtusely conical, the inner ones indistinctly bifid at the 

 apex. The canines are rather small and short, and are followed by 

 two small premolars on each side, of a bluntly conical form, the first 

 being the larger of the two. To these succeed the two large pre- 

 molars, or carnassiers, in this species with the point only a little 

 raised above the crowns of the true molars. In the lower jaw the 

 incisors, six in number, are somewhat irregularly ranged and tri- 

 lobed, the canines short, and the two following premolars on each 

 side of equal size, small and conical. The next premolar is of 

 greater size and more acutely conical. The chief peculiarity in the 

 dentition of this species is the shortness of the teeth, whilst they 

 maintain throughout a medium degree of stoutness. 



Length of the head and body, about .... 2 



of the tail 1 5 



of the head 9 



of the fore-arm I 5 



of the longest finger 2 4 



— of the fourth finger 1 9^ 



of the thumb and claw. 3| 



of the tibia 8 



of the foot and claws 4 1 



Expanse of wings , 10 



Hab. Not known. 



