42 PTEROPODID^. 



crown of tlie head the extremities of the hairs are yellowish brown ; 

 throat reddish brown, a much paler or yellowish-brown collar 

 surrounds the neck ; on each shoulder (in adult males only) a tuft 

 of light buff-coloured hairs, and the fur of the antebrachial and 

 wing-membrane beneath is of the same pale colour ; back, breast, 

 and abdomen dark reddish brown. 



Fur of the back short and appressed, occupying a space in the 

 middle of the back about two inches wide, and short appressed hairs 

 appear upon the humerus and upon the fleshy part of the forearm, 

 also extending thinty outwards upon the legs almost as far as the 

 ankles. Beneath, the extremities are nearly naked, but the ante- 

 brachial membrane and the wiug-membrane between the humerus 

 and femur and along the forearm are covered with long woolly hair. 



The types of Pt. elseyi, Gray, all appear to be immature indi- 

 viduals. In them the general colour of the fur is reddish or 

 yellowish brown throughout, the neck surrounded by a collar of 

 paler coloured fur, without any trace of white shoulder-tufts. 



The dentition is very peculiar, the teeth resembling those of the 

 species of the genera Eonycteris and Macroglossus. The canines are 

 remarkably long and slender, and deeply grooved longitudinally in 

 front ; all the teeth are very narrow and unicusjndate ; the central pair 

 of upper incisors are slightly separated, and a wide space exists 

 between the middle pair of lower incisors ; the first small premolar 

 in both jaws is placed in the anterior half of the wide space between 

 the canine and second premolar ; the last lower molar is scarcely as 

 large as the small lower outer incisor. The mandible is corre- 

 spondingly slender, and the symphysis menti very deep from before 

 backwards, as in the group Macroglossi (Plate IV. fig. 3). 



Length (of the type specimen), head and body 9", head 2"'6, ear 

 l"-2, forearm 5"'4, thumb 2"-l, second finger 3"'9, third finger 

 ll"-5, fifth finger 7", tibia 2"-6. 



Length (of one of the types of Pt. elseyi), head and body about 

 7", eye from nostril 0"-95, ear l"-05, forearm 5"-3, thumb 2"-l, 

 second finger 3"-7 ; third finger — metacarp. 3"'6, 1st ph. 2"-7, 2nd 

 ph. 3"-9 ; fifth finger— metacarp. 3"-6, 1st ph. l"-65, 2nd ph. l"-6 ; 

 tibia 2"-2, foot l"-75. 



Hah. N.E. Australia (Cape York, Claremont Eiver and Island). 



Ft. scapulatus differs so much from all other species of this genus, 

 and resembles the long-tongued Macroglossi so closely in the form 

 of the skull and in dentition, that we should expect to find that it 

 feeds on similar fruits, and that the tongue is similarly lengthened 

 and provided with long brush-like papillse. This, however, cannot be 

 determined from an examination of the specimens hitherto obtained, 

 which are dried skins from which the tongues have been removed. 



(I. 5 ad. sk. N. Australian expedition. Dr. J. R. Elsey [P.]. 



(Type oi Pteropiis elseyi, Grav.) 

 6. 2 ? ad. sk. Claremont Island, N.E. Australia" Dr. J. R. Elsey [P.J. 



c. 2 imm. sk. Claremont Island, N.E. Australia. Dr. J. R. Elsey [P.J. 



d. skull of a. 

 tr. imm, skull. 



