SYNOPSIS OP THE 



Genus I. — Vespertilionid^*, Bats, generally. 



Anterior fingers excessively elongated, and the membrane 

 between them spread over a large surface, thereby enabling 

 the animal to keep up a continued and rapid flight. 



*** With frugivorous cheek teeth. 

 Sub-genus I. Pteropus. Brisson. Incisive teeth |, co- 

 nical in shape ; canine j~^ ; cheek-teeth f |, presenting a sur- 

 face neither flat nor aculeate, each tooth having two roof- 

 shaped ridges, forming a longitudinal furrow between them, 

 extending along the whole series. No membranaceous ap- 

 pendage to the nose. Tail short, or wanting. Interfemoral 

 membrane sloped off. The index finger has a third phalanx 

 and a nail. Tongue papillary. Habits nocturnal, grega- 

 rious. Regimen frugivorous. 



§ 1. Without a tail. 



153. 1. P. Edulis, (the great Black Pteropus, or Eatable 

 Bat.) Black, with the upper part of the neck ochreous 

 red ; back covered with black and white hairs intermixed ; 

 length of body one foot, expanse of wings five feet. 



Pteropus Edulis, Peron and Lesueur. Geoff. Ann. duMus 

 d'Hist. Nat. t. xv. p. 90. Pteropus Javanicus, Desmarest. 

 Ency. Methodique, sp. 136, and Horsfield's Zoological Re- 

 searches, No. IV. 



Kalong of the Javanese. Malanon Bourou of the Malays. 



Icon. HorsfieUVs Zool. Researches, No. iv. 



Inhabits Java. 



Var. a. With a collar of lighter brown round the neck, 

 and a general mixture of brown hairs with the black. 



Obs. The external characters of this species are consi- 

 derably subject to vary, and it seems probable that it exists 



* The Greek termination is here employed to distinguish the whole 

 g^enus of Bats coUectivelv from the sub-genus, Vespertilio. 

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