122 PTEROPIDA, 
* Asia. Hair of neck-collar slender, weak. 
1. Cynopterus marginatus. B.M. 
Brown, often rufous-washed, greyer beneath. Male. Side of throat 
with more or less intense-red radiating hairs. 
Pteropus marginatus, F. Cuvier; Geoff. Ann. du Mus, xv. p. 97, t. 8. 
Hab. India and the Islands. 
Var. Elliot. Fur brown ; white margin of ear well marked ; arm- 
bone 2 inches 9 lines; skull,“length 1 inch 3 lines, breadth 9 lines; 
upper cutting-teeth close together, the outer converging. B.M. 
Cynopterus marginatus (¢ and d), Gerrard, Cat. Bones B. M. p. 58. 
Hab. India: Madras, Sir John Boileau (in spirit) ; Madras, Elliot, 
stuffed (male and female). 
Var. ceylonensis. Fur blackish brown, underside rather greyer ; 
white margin of ear narrow, indistinct ; arm-bone 2 inches 4 lines. 
Hab. Ceylon, Thwaites (male and female in spirits). B. M. 
Var. titthecheilus. Fur dull brown, underside rather greyer ; hair 
of side of throat and chest very short, with a slight rufous tinge ; 
forearm-bone 2 inches and 7 lines, B. M. 
“Pachysoma titthecheilus, Is. aes Temm. Mon. i. pp. 198, 
261, t. 15. £.17, 24; ii, p. 192, t. 35. £8 ! (from Mus. Leyden). Cy- 
nopterus titthacheilus, Temm. » Horsf, MS, 
Hab. Malacca, Griffith. 
Var. brevicaudatum. Fur reddish brown; crown of head and nape 
rather darker, duller; sides of the neck bright red; abdomen pale 
brown; forearm-bone 2 inches 7 lines. B. M. 
Pachysoma brevicaudatum, Is. Geoff.; Temm. Mon. ii. p. 92, t. 36. 
f. 20,21! Tomes, P. Z. 8, 1858, p. 537 ; pee . 56! Cynopterus 
brevicaudatus, Gray, List Mamm. B. "Mp Pteropus brevi- 
caudatus, Fischer, Syn. Cynopterus marginatus (6), Gerrard, Cat. 
Bones B. M. p. 58! 
Hab. Sumatra, from Mus. Leyden; Java? skeleton, from Mus. 
Leyden. Skull 1 inch 1 line long; forearm-bone 2 inches 3 lines ; 
upper cutting-teeth slender, rather far apart, long ; upper front false 
grinders very small. 
See also 
a. Pachysoma Diardii, Is. Geoff. Dict. Class. H. Nat. xiv. p. 705; 
Temm. Mon. ii. p. 95, Sumatra. 
b. P. Duvaucellii, Is. Geoff. Dict. Class. H. Nat. xiv. p. 705; Temm. 
Mon. ii. p. 95, Sumatra. Sides of the neck not so much and 
intensely red as in P. Horsfieldit, A skeleton in the British 
Museum sent from the Leyden Museum as Cynopterus mar- 
ginatus, Temm., has the skull 1 inch 5 lines, the forearm-bone 
3 inches 1 line "long, and the upper cutting-teeth close, the 
outer rather converging.—Gerr. Cat. Bones B. M. p. 58. 
