9. MACROGLOSSTJS. 95 



dark brown colour. The fur of the head extends upon the face as 

 far as the inner canthuses of the eyes, leaving the remaining portions 

 naked ; from the back it passes on to the humerus and forearm, cover- 

 ing half the length of the latter ; behind, on each side, it covers a 

 triangular portion of the interfemoral membrane, bounded laterally 

 by the femur, and posteriorly by a line drawn from the knee-joint 

 to the base of the free portion of the tail ; beneath, the whole sur- 

 face of the antebrachial membrane is covered with short hairs ; late- 

 rally, the fur of the sides extends upon the wing-membrane as far 

 as a line drawn between the elbow- and knee-joints, also outwards 

 along the posterior margin of the forearm to the carpus, occupying a 

 space varying in width from one inch behind the elbow to half an 

 inch or less at the middle of the forearm ; the under surface of the 

 humerus and femur and half the length of the forearm are also 

 hairy. 



Tail about half an inch in length, half contained in the narrow 

 interfemoral membrane as in Cynonycteris. On each side of and a 

 little behind the anal opening two small, subcutaneous, gland-like 

 bodies are placed. 



These bodies are kidney-shaped, their convex margins directed out- 

 wards ; and they are found in both male and female. In males in 

 whom the testes have descended, one of these postanal glands forms 

 on each side the posterior boundary of the temporarj' scrotum, which, 

 in this situation only, is quite naked and covered by very thin 

 skin. 



The tongue is very long, pointed, and protrusible ; in spirit speci- 

 mens it can be drawn from the mouth for nearly half an inch with- 

 out using any forcible extension ; the anterior half of its surface is 

 thickly covered with soft recurved papillae, which increase very much 

 in length towards the tip. 



The teeth are very similar to those of Macroglossus minimus, 

 except the first upper premolar, which is minute. The upper incisors 

 are arranged triang-ularly ; they are very small, scarcely raised above 

 the level of the gum, and are separated from each other by regular 

 intervals. 



Length (of an adult cJ), head and body 4"-5, tail 0"-55, head 1"55. 

 ear 0""75 x 0""45, ear to tip of nose l"-35, eye to tip of nose 0"-55, 

 forearm 2"-85, thumb 0"-85, first finger l"-8, third finger 4"-9, 

 fourth finger 3"-8, fifth finger 3"-3, tibia l"-2, foot 0"-75. 

 Hub. Burma (Farm Caves, Mouhnein). 



a ad., al. Moulmein. Calcutta Museum [E.l 



b. skull. Burma. G. E. Dobson, M.B. [P.]. 



9. MACROGLOSSUS. 



Macroglossus, F. Cuvier, Bents des Marnmif. p. 40 (1825) ; Temm. 

 Monogr. Mammal, ii. p. 96 (1835-41) ; Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. Zand. 

 1866, p. 64 ; Peters, Monatsber. Akad. Wissensch. Berl 1867, p. 870 ; 

 Dobson, J. A. S. B. 1873, p. 204 ; Monogr. Asiat. Chiropt. p. 34 

 (1876). 



