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broad band, which passes directly downwards, and meets beneath 

 the jaws the corresponding band from the opposite side. Head and 

 neck yellowish white, the extremities of the hairs on the back of the 

 neck more or less bright yeUow ; back brownish grey, the extre- 

 mities of the hairs almost white ; beneath pale brown, the terminal 

 half of the hairs pale yellowish. 



Fur everywhere very soft and dense (as in Pt. temmimUi), though 

 not long, widely covering the loins, and extending thinly upon the 

 humerus and forearms, and upon the backs of the legs and the 

 adjoining wing-membrane to the ankles, and concealing the very 

 narrow interfemoral membrane in the middle. 



Outer lower incisors much longer than the inner ones, which are 

 separated by an interval ; molars, feeble, narrow, the internal cusp 

 scarcely developed ; first upper premolar closer to the canine than 

 to the second premolar, as large as one of the inner lower incisors ; 

 a wide space between the lower canine and second premolar, in the 

 anterior half of which the first lower premolar is placed ; last lower 

 molar scarcely larger than one of the outer lower incisors. 



Length (of an adult $ ), head and body about 5"-5, head l"-8, ear 

 0"-7, eye from tip of nostril 0"-7, forearm 3"-6, thumb l"-6, second 

 finger 3" ; third finger — metacarp. 2"-7, 1st ph. 2", 2nd ph. 2"-8 ; 

 fourth finger — metacarp. 2"-55, 1st ph. l"-55, 2nd ph. l"-6 ; fifth 

 finger— metacarp. 2"-6, 1st ph. l"-2, 2nd ph. l"-2 ; tibia l"-7, cal- 

 caneum 0"-4, foot l"-25. 

 Hah. Temate. 



a,b. J & $ ad. sk, Temate. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [0.]. 



c. S ^^- sk. 



d. skull of c. 



17. Pteropus capistratus. 



Pteropus capistratus, Peters, MB. Akad. Berl. 1876, p. 316 (with a 

 coloured plate) ; Bohson, P. Z. S. 1877, p. 116. 



Closely allied to Pt. personatus, but distinguished immediately by 

 the different character of the facial streaks, and by its conspicuously 

 larger size. 



Ears as in Pt. personatus, as long as the muzzle, and similarly 

 rounded off at their extremities. Face pale yellowish white ; be- 

 tween the eyes and the ears a black ring surrounds the muzzle, 

 meeting above on the forehead a black longitudinal streak, which 

 extends backwards from the nose between the eyes, and on either 

 side behind the angle of the mouth a similar black streak, which 

 passes downwards and backwards from the upper surface of the 

 muzzle in front of the eye, while a much smaller and narrower dark 

 line of fur extends forwards from the anterior and backwards from 

 the posterior commissure of the eyelids. 



The colour of the remaining parts of the fur is generally similar 

 to that of Pt. persiwntus, but the hairs are longer and extend even 

 more thickly upon the membranes and posterior extremities. 



