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3. Pteropus dasymallus. 



Pteropus dasymallus, Temminck, Monogr. Mammal, i. p. 180, pi. 10 

 (1827); Peters, MB. Mad. Berl. 1867, p. 323: Dohsan, Monoar. 

 Asiat. Chiropt. p. 16 (1870). 



Spectrum dasymallum, Gray, Catal. Monkeys and Fruit-eating Bats, 

 p. 101(1870). 



Ears shorter than the muzzle, rising but slightly above the fur of 

 the head, shaped some-wrhat like those of Cynopterm marginatus 

 (Plate III. fig. 2), the upper fourth of the outer margin slightly con- 

 cave, and of the inner margin convex ; basal half of the ear-conch 

 thinly clothed with moderately long hairs ; interfemoral membrane 

 very narrow behind, quite concealed in the centre by long fur. 



Fur long and woolly on all parts except on the face, on the back 

 similar to the rest of the body ; head and face reddish brown ; the 

 muzzle darker than the head ; nape of neck, shoulders, and part of 

 the back pale buff or yellowish buff, not defined by a straight line, 

 passing rather irregularly into the light brown fur of the back ; 

 beneath, a band of unicoloured pale bufi' fur covers the neck, inter- 

 rupted in the centre by a few dark brown hairs passing backwards 

 from the chin to the breast ; breast and abdomen brown, the extre- 

 mities of many of the hairs shining yellow. 



On the anterior extremities the fur extends densely, covering 

 three fourths of the forearm, and passing outwards iipon the wing- 

 membrane almost as far as a line drawn from the distal fourth of 

 the humerus to the knee ; the rump and short interfemoral, and the 

 legs to the ankles, are thickly covered with very long hair, while a 

 fringe of fine rather short hairs extends along the margin of the 

 wing-membrane from the ankle almost as far as the extremity of 

 the last finger ; beneath the wiug-membrane behind the forearm is 

 thickly covered with long hairs, but the lower half of the tibia is 

 naked. 



Muzzle rather long and narrow ; zj'gomatic arches not much 

 curved outwards ; postorbital process of the frontal rather short and 

 slender, separated from the short ascending process of the zygomatic 

 arch by a wide interval ; upper incisors nearly equal, well developed ; 

 lower outer incisors about double the size of the inner incisors, which 

 are slightly separated from each other ; first upper premolar deci- 

 duous, canine and second premolar separated by a rather wide space ; 

 lower premolars with basal ridges ; last upper molar broadly oval, 

 larger than the last lower molar, which again exceeds the first 

 lower premolar. 



Length, forearm 5"-4, thumb 2"-7, first finger 4" ; third finger— 

 metacarp. 3"-55 ; fourth finger — metacarp. 3"-6, let ph. 2"-3, 2nd ph. 

 2"-2 ; fifth finger — metacarp. 3"-8, 1st ph. l"-8, 2nd ph. l"-8 ; foot 



l"-8. 



Hah. Japan (Kiousiou Island). 

 f^ a,d. sk. Japan. Purchased. 



h. 5 imm., al. Sir E. Belcher [0.]. 



c. skull of a. 



