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6. CEPHALOTES. 



Cephalotes, Geoffroy, Ann, du MushLm, xv. p. 99 (1810) ; Temminck, 



Monogr. Mammal, ii. p. 103 (1835-41) ; Gray, P. Z. S. 1866, p. 64 ; 



Peters, MB. Akad. Berl. 1867, p. 871 ; Gray, Catal. Monkeys and 



Fruit-eating Pats, 1870, p. 119. 

 Hypoderma, Is. Geoffr. Diet. Class. d'Hist. Nat. v. p. 15 ; Wagner, 



Suppl. Sehreb. Sdugeth. i. p. 372 (1844). 

 Xantharpyia, Gray, Voy. Sulphur, Mammalia, p. 30 (1844) {vide 



Peters, I.e.). 



Muzzle obtusely conical, as short as in Cynopterus ; nostrils 

 simple, rather wide apart, opening sublaterally, with a wide shallow 

 emargination between ; ears simple, separate ; index finger without 

 a claw ; wings from the spine ; wing-membrane attached to the base 

 of the second toe ; tail short, as in Cynonycteris. 



Dentition. Inc. |, c. ~, pm. ~, m. ~. 



This genus, represented by a single species only, appears to be 

 most nearly allied to Pteropus, which it resembles in the form of the 

 skull and of the molar teeth. It is, however, widely separated from 

 all the genera of this group by the ununited condition of the pre- 

 maxillary bones, and by the absence of a claw on the index finger. 



Rang 6. Austro-Malaj'an subregion. 



1. Cephalotes peronii. 



Pteropus palliatus, Geoffroy, Ann. du Museum, xv. p. 99 (1810). 

 Cephalotes peronii, Geoffroy, I.e. p. 104, pi. yii. ; Temminck, Monogr. 



Mammal, ii. p. 106, pi. xxxv. fig. 7, pi. xxxvi. figs. 24-29 (1835- 



41) ; Peters, MP. Akad. Berl. 1867, p. 871 ; Gray, Catal. Monkeys 



and Fi-uit-eating Bats, 1870, p. 119. 

 Hypoderma peronii, Is. Geoffroy, Diet. Class. d'Sist. Nat. xiv. p. 708 



(1828). 

 Hypoderma moluccensis, Quoy et Gaimard, Voy. de V Astrolabe, i. 



p. 86, pi. xi. 

 Xantharpyia amplexicaudata, Gray, Voy. Sulphur, Mammalia, p. 30 



(1844). 



Muzzle short, obtusely conical ; the eye is nearer to the extremity 

 of the nose than to the ear ; ears narrow, subacutely pointed, longer 

 than the muzzle ; outer margin of the ear-conch concave immediately 

 beneath the tip, then convex ; inner margin convex in the middle, 

 straight in upper third ; nostrils as in Pteropus but not so promi- 

 nent, separated by a wider space and opening more laterally ; be- 

 neath, the centre of the upper lip is occupied by a nalced raised and 

 flattened cushion not divided by a vertical groove. 



Index fimger as long as the metacarpal bone of the middle finger, 

 the terminal phalanx ending in a small curved process resembling a 



blunt nail. 



Wing-membrane from the base of the second toe, and from the 

 central line of the back, with which it is connected by a longitudinal 

 very thin process of the integument. The wings are quite naked 

 above, but the back covered by them is weU clothed with hair. 



