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1. Harpyia cephalotes. B. M. 
Grey, back with a black vertebral streak, beneath rather paler ; 
arm-bone 2 inches 6 lines. 
Harpyia Pallasii, Desm. ; Temm. Mon. ii. p. 98, t. 39. Cephalotes 
Pallasii, Geoff. Ann. Mus. xv. Vesp. cephalotes, Pallas, Spic. Zool. 
iii. t. 1,2, Céphalote, Buffon, Supp. iii. t. 22. 
The skull oblong, short and broad, nose very short; upper and 
lower false grinders distinct, minute; grinders close together. 
Length 1 inch 3 lines, width 9 lines; the upper cutting-teeth 
large, occupying the whole space between the canines; the lower 
ag quite close together in front, without any cutting-teeth in 
ront. 
Hab. Georgia Island, Cuming. 
2. Harpyia albiventer. 
Fur grey ; bases of the hairs grey, with blackish tips ; underside 
paler, grey brown; arm-bone 2 inches. 
Uronycteris albiventer, Gray, P. Z. S. 1862, p. 262; Ann. §& Mag. 
N. H. 1863, xi. p. 886. 
Hab. Morty Island, Wallace. 
Chiefly differs from H. cephalotes in the absence of the dorsal 
streak and smaller size; may be only the young of former. 
Tribe V. CYNOPTERINA. 
Cutting-teeth 4, lower in a regular series. False grinders 2.2. Head 
broad, short. Nostrils rather prominent. Grindeis close together. 
10. CYNOPTERUS. 
Head short, broad behind ; nose short, conical; lips thick at the 
sides ; wings from sides of the back, attached to the bases of the toes ; 
index finger clawed; the back, shoulders, part of the upperarm 
above, edge of the wing near the back and the thighs, and part of the 
interfemoral membrane covered with hair; the large blood-vessel 
from the armpit and the groin divided and redivided before reaching 
the edge of the wing; tail short, free at the end ; interfemoral mem- 
brane distinct, with a band on each side from base of tail to heel ; 
thumb elongate, lower joint short, it and the base of the much 
longer upper joint enclosed in the membrane. 
Cynopterus, part., F. Cuv. Pachysoma, part., Is. Geoff. not Fabricius. 
Pachysoma, sp., Tomes. 
Found in clusters on the folded leaves of the plantain, the palmyra, 
&e., Elliot. 
