124 - PLEROPIDE. 
body hairy. Nostrils simple, lateral. Wings from the sides, attached 
nearly to the base of the second toes. Cutting-teeth (4 in plate) $. 
Megara, Temm. Megeerops, Peters, 1865 (mere nominal alteration). 
Megera ecaudata. The Megera. 
Ashy, back brown ; forearm 2 inches. 
Pachysoma ecaudatum, Jemm. Mon. ii. p. 94. Megezra ecaudata, 
Temm. Mon. ii. p. 859, t. 69.  Pteropus ecaudatus, Wagner, 
Schreb. v. p. 611. 
Hab. Sumatra. Mus. Leyden. 
Tribe VI. EPOMOPHORINA. 
Cutting-teeth 4, lower in a regular series. False grinders 2.2, 
far apart, upper front wanting. Teeth often in bad state. Head 
very long, swollen in front. 
12. HYPSIGNATHUS. 
Head very large, oblong, thick, swollen and truncated in front. 
The front of the upper jaw with a broad, expanded, bald, soft disk 
with raised edges, notched on each side above and surrounding 
the nostrils, which are separated by the narrow upper part of the 
disk. The lower jaw rather swollen in front, and with a flattened 
bald disk, with a slight triangular notch in the middle of its upper 
edge. Eyes large. Ears lateral, moderate. Thumb elongate, the 
upper joint rather the longest. Wings from the sides of the back. 
Index finger clawed. Wings and interfemoral membrane attached 
to the foot as far as the base of the toes. Tail none.—Murray, 
P. Z. 8. 1862, t. 1. 
Hypsignathus, Allen, Proc. Acad. N. S. Philad. 1861, p. 156. Sphy- 
rocephalus, 4. Murray, P. Z. 8. 1862, p. 8. 
“Skull very high. Nose broad at the summit. Nasal bones 
much developed. Brain-cavity small. Lower jaw flattened and ir- 
regular, depressed at the symphysis. Teeth 28. Grinders $. False 
grinders 3, Cutting-teeth 4. The incisors small, regular, and se- 
parate. Canines slender. First grinder pointed. The lower incisors 
close in front of the upper and hide them.’’—Allen. 
Hypsignathus monstrosus. B. M. 
Hypsignathus monstrosus, Allen, Proc. Acad. Philad. 1861, p. 156, 
Sphyrocephalus labrosus, Gray, P. Z. S.; Murray, P. Z. 8. 1862, 
p.8,t.1 
Hab. West Africa: Gaboon, Allen; Old Calabar, Murray. 
