PTEROPODIDA 653 
This genus is represented by some nine species, which have a 
distribution very similar to that of Pteropus, except that they 
extend into Africa, and are not found in Australia and Poly- 
nesia. X. egyptiaca inhabits the chambers of the Great Pyramid 
and other deserted buildings in Egypt, and is probably the species 
so generally figured in Egyptian frescoes. Fig. 302 exhibits an 
African species of this genus in the attitude assumed by the Fox- 
Bats when at rest. 
Boneia.1.—This genus, as represented by B. bidens of Borneo, 
differs from Xantharpyia in having only a single pair of upper 
incisors. 
Cynopterus.2—Dentition : 4 aaa c+, p 3,m 2; total 32 or 30. 
Muzzle short, grooved like Pteropus in front; tail and fur generally 
as in Xantharpyia, but the former sometimes wholly absent. This 
genus, with seven species, is almost limited to the Oriental region. 
C. marginatus is very common in India, and extremely destructive 
to ripe fruit of every description. Dr. Dobson states that “he 
gave to a specimen of this Bat obtained at Calcutta a ripe banana, 
which, with the skin removed, weighed exactly 2 ounces; the 
animal immediately, as if famished with hunger, fell upon the 
fruit, seizing it between the thumbs and the index fingers, and took 
large mouthfuls out of it, opening the mouth to the fullest extent 
with extreme voracity. In the space of three hours the whole 
fruit was consumed. Next morning the Bat was killed, and found 
to weigh one ounce, or half the weight of the food eaten in three 
hours. Indeed the animal when eating seemed to be a kind of 
living mill, the food passing from it almost as fast as devoured, 
and apparently unaltered, eating being, as it were, performed only 
for the pleasure of eating.” 
Harpyia.2—Dentition : 14, ¢ 4, p #,m2; total 24. Premaxille 
well developed and united in 
front ; facial bones much ele- 
vated above the margin of 
the jaw, nostrils tubular (Fig. 
303); body and limbs as in 
Cynopterus. Includes two 
species from the Austro- 
Malayan subregion, readily 
recognised by the peculiar 
tubular and projecting ne ae 
nesirils, as shows im iho 7°" ee ee 
accompanying woodcut. 
Cephatotes.-—Dentition: i +, ¢ 4, p 3, m 3; total 28. Pre- 
1 Jentink, Notes Leyd. Mus. vol. i. p. 117 (1879).—Amended. 2 F. Cuvier, 
Dents des Mammiferes, p. 39 (1825). 3 Tlliger, Prodromus Syst. Mamm. et 
Avium, p. 118 (1811). 4 Geoffroy, Ann. du Muséum, vol. xvi. p. 99 (1810). 
