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Zelebor's description (which consists merely of some unimportant 

 remarks on the colours of the fur, wing-membranes, and eyes), yet, 

 as the animals which furnished the above description were taken 

 not only at the same island, Car-Nicobar, but also from the same 

 place on that island, namely from the leaves of the cocoa-nut palms, 

 I think it highly probable that they belong to the same species, and 

 accordingly, to avoid the possibility of introducing a fresh synonym, 

 I have retained Fitzinger's name. 



a. $ ad., al. Car-Nicobar Island. G. E. Dobson, M.B. [E.]. 



(WUhfcetus in utero.) 



3. Cynopterus melanocephalus. 



Pteropus melanocephalus, Temm. Monoi/r. Manim. i. p. 190, pi. xii. 

 Cynopterus melanocephalus, Peters, MB. Akad. £erl. 1867, p. 867; 

 Dobson, Monogr. Asiat. Chiropt. p. 27 (1876). 



Ears small, oval ; nostrils projecting considerably, deeply emar- 

 ginate between. Fur above extending to the wing-membranes as 

 far as a line drawn between the elbow and the knee ; beneath 

 almost confined to the body. Head black ; shoulders and back pale 

 reddish buff at the base of the hairs, the extremities light reddish 

 brovsm ; beneath pale buff throughout. The colour of the hair on 

 the upper surface appears in the type specimen considerably faded. 



Teeth as in C marginatus ; last lower molar very small, much 

 smaller than upper one. 



Length (of the type specimen), head and body 2"-8, ear 0""4, eye 

 from tip of nostril 0"-25, forearm l"-7, thumb 0"-6, third finger 3", 

 fifth finger 2"-2, tibia 0"-6, foot 0"-5. 



Hab. Java. 



The type in the Leyden Museum is the only specimen of this the 

 smallest species of Cynopterus yet obtained. 



4. Cynopterus brachysoma. 



Cynopterus brachysoma, Dobson, J. A. S. B. 1871, p. 260; 1873, 

 p. 202, pi. xiv. fig. 7 ; Monogr. Asiat. Chiropt. p. 27, fag. (ear). 



Ears slightly longer than the muzzle, broadly rounded off above, 

 the upper third of the outer margin straight or even slightly convex; 

 the presence of a rounded lobe at the base of the outer margin at 

 once distinguishes this species. 



Body very short and thick. Fur slaty blue, with a greyish or 

 silvery tinge, the tip of the hairs sooty brown. The fur of the back 

 is continuous with that of the abdomen through the notch in the 

 interfemoral membrane, and completely conceals the short and 

 slender tail. Above, the fur of the back extends upon the wing- 

 membrane as far as a line drawn between the elbow- and knee- 

 joints, covering it with long hair, also upon the humerus, half the 

 length of the forearm, the femur, and proximal end of the tibia, 



Length (of an adult J preserved in alcohol), head and body 2"-9, 

 tail 0"-25, head l"-25, eye to tip of nostril 0"-4, ear 0"-6 x 0"-35, 



