70 



PXEEOPODIDJE. 



u, b. S imm., al. 

 c, d. 2 ad., al. 

 €. 5 ad., al. 

 f~h. d ) 2 > f^'id sk. in al. 

 i. cj ad, sk. 

 j, 5 ad. sk. 

 k. 2 ad. sk. 

 I. skull of e. 

 m. skull of h. 



Luzon. 



Luzon. 



Dinagut Island. 



Mindanao. 



Mindanao. 



Philippine Islands. 



Dr. A. B. Meyer [C. 

 Dr. A. B. Meyer [C. 

 Mr. Everett [C.]. 

 Purchased. 

 Dr. Steere [0.]. 

 Mr. Cuming [C.J. 

 Haslar OoU. 



3. CYNONTCTERIS. 



? Eleutherura *, Ch'ay, Voy. Stdphur, Mammalia, p. 29 (1844). 



Cynonycteris, Peters, Reise nach Mossambiqtce, Siiugeth. p. 25 (1852) ; 

 id. MB. Akad. Berl. 1867, p. 865 ; Dobson, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Beng, 

 1873, p. 202 ; id. Monogr. Asiat. Chiropt. p. 29 (1876). 



Xantharpyia et Eleutherura, Gray, P. Z. S. 186G, p. 64 ; Catal. 

 Monkeys and Fruit-eating Bats, pp. 115, 116 (1870). 



Muzzle long and conical ; nostrils projecting by their inner 

 margins ; upper lip with a wide groove in front, with sloping, not 

 elevated, margins t ; index finger with .a distinct claw ; metacarpal 

 bone of the middle finger as long as or longer than the index finger ; 

 wings from the sides of the hairy back and from the base of the 

 second toe ; tail short, distinct, partially included in the narrow 

 interfemoral membrane. 



Dentition. Inc. -;, o. 



1—1 



3—3 



4' V. ^j, pm. 3^, m. 3^:^. 



Skull and teeth very similar to those of Pteropus, but the sagittal 

 crest is less developed, the postorbital processes are much shorter, 

 and the cranio-faoial axis is nearly horizontal ; the first upper pre- 

 molar and the last upper and lower molars are comparatively much 

 larger. 



The very close affinity of this genus with Cynopterus is shown in 

 the occurrence of a transitional form, Cynonycteris grandidieri, 

 Peters, from Africa, which has the external form of Cynopterus, 



* I reject this name in favour of Cynonycteris, subsequently proposed by Dr. 

 Peters, because, although Fteropus hottenttotus ( = Cynonycteris collaris. UUg.) is 

 named by Dr. Gray as the type of his genus, nevertheless the short definition of 

 EletUherura is altogether incorrect, and may have been founded on a specimen 

 of a species very different from C. collaris, and belonging to a different genus. 



t Except in C. gnmdidieri. 



