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Upper incisors arranged in an angular series between the canines ; 

 last lower premolar placed on the commencement of the ascending 

 ramus of the jaw, so that, although much smaller, its crown is 

 higher than that of the antepenultimate molar. 



In the following columns are given the measurements of an adult 

 male (a dried specimen) and of a younger male (the type, preserved 

 in alcohol) : — 



Length, head and body 3-5 



tail 0-35 



,, head 1-3 



Distance of the eye from the nostril 0"45 



Length, ear 06 0-6 



forearm 2-3 2-15 



thumb 0-86 085 



second finger 17 1'5 



third finger, metacarpal 155 1'35 



1st phalanx 1-05 I'O 



2nd „ 1-55 1-4 



fifth finger, metacarpal 1'5 1-35 



„ 1st phalanx 07 0-65 



2nd „ 0-85 07 



tibia 0-85 O'S 



foot 0-5 0-5 



Hah. Africa (Angola). 



a. (type) S , al. (not full-grown). Angola. Dr. J. E. Gray. 



b. ad. (S sk. Africa. Sir J. Richardson. 



7. Cynonycteris straminea. 



Pteropus stramineus, Geoffrey, Ann. du Museum, xv. p. 95 (1810) ; 



Temminck, Mmiogr. Mammal, i. p. 195 (1827), ii. p. 84 (1835-41). 

 Xantharpyia straminea, Gray, List of Mammal. Brit. Mus. p. 38 



(1843); Catal. Monkeys and Fruit-eating Bats, p. 116 (1870). 

 Pachysoma straminea, Tomes, P. Z. S. 1860, p. 44. 

 Pterocyon paleaceus, Peters, MB. Akad. Beii. 1860, p. 423. 

 P Pteropus mollipilosus, Allen, Proc. Acad. Nat. Set. Philad. 1861, 



p. 159. 

 Pterocyon stramineus, Peters, Jorrwl de Scien. Math. Phys. e Natur. 



lAsboa, no. X. 1870, 

 Cynonycteris straminea, Peters, MB. Akad. Berl. 1867, p. 866. 



Considerably larger than C. collaris, with a longer and narrower 

 head, and with fur quite different in quality, colour, and distribu- 

 tion from that of any other species of the genus. The wings also 

 arise from the sides of the back closer to the spine. 



The fur of the head and neck is, as in Pteropus, different in length 

 and in colour from that of the back. Above, the face in front of 

 the eyes and the ears are nearly naked ; the head and neck are 

 covered with rather short erect fur, which, however, is longer than 

 that of the back, which is closely appressed, and occupies a space 

 scarcely one and a half inch wide across the loins ; the humerus and 

 three fourths of the forearm are clothed with short appressed fur, 



