76 rXEEOPODIDJE. 



rather coarse hairs, which are much longer (in adult males) on the 

 sides and inferior surface of the neck and of a deep yellow colour. 

 Ahout half the forearm is clothed with rather short hair; the wing- 

 membranes are naked, except along the sides of the body ; the in- 

 terfemoral is covered as far as the notch in the centre behind, the 

 remainder and the tibiae with a few short hairs ; feet covered with 

 short hairs. Beneath, the antebrachial is thinly covered ; the wing- 

 membrane is clothed as far as a line drawn from the elbow to the 

 knee, and a deep band of fur passes outwards behind the elbow and 

 the forearm to the carpus, decreasing in width outwards ; a small 

 patch of very short fur appears uj)on the metacarpal of the thumb. 



Palate-ridges as in C. cegyptiaca, except that the third posterior 

 divided ridge, represented by two oval papillae, is absent. 



(For measurements see Table, p. 79.) 



Hah. Equatorial and Southern Africa (West Africa, Gaboon ; East 

 Africa, Natal ; South Africa, Cape of Good Hope.) 



a. 5 ad. ek. Gaboon. Purchased. 



(Type oi Eleutherura unicolor, Gray.) 



Natal. Pm-chased, 



Port Natal. 

 & ad., al. Cape Town. Trustees of S. Afr. Mu- 



seum [P.]. 

 Cape of Good Hope. Purchased. 

 South Africa. Sir A. Smith [C.]. 



South Africa. Stockholm Museum. 



South Africa. G. H. Ford, Esq. [P.]. 



6. Cynonycteris torquata. 



Cynopterus collaris, Gray (nou Geoffroy), Catal. Monkeys and Fruit- 

 eating Bats, p. 123 (1870). 



Slightly more than half the size of O. collaris. The head also 

 is comparatively broader and shorter, and the crown of the skuU 

 more elevated above the face-line. 



The male has the under surface of the neck clothed with remark- 

 ably long, densely set yellow hairs, which extend outward upon the 

 shoulders and backwards upon the breast, terminating abruptly, 

 forming a broad well-defined ruff, very distinct from the short fur 

 of the body (Plate V. fig. 2). 



Above, half the forearm is covered with short hairs, and the wing- 

 membrane as far as a line drawn from the middle of the humerus 

 to the knee ; nearly the whole of the interfemoral is thickly 

 covered, but the lower third of the tibiae and the legs are quite 

 naked. Beneath, a few fine hairs appear upon the antebrachial 

 membrane and upon the wing-membrane between the humerus and 

 the femur and behind the elbow, but no band of fur passes out- 

 wards behind the forearm to the carpus. 



Above, reddish brown, head paler ; beneath, pale brown except 

 the ruff, which is bright reddish yellow. 



