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Number of forms. — The genus is represented by the type species 

 only. 



Characters. — Like Eonycteris, but with wing attached to second 

 toe instead of to first, and with lower molars 2-2 instead of 3-3. 

 The teeth are throughout more robust than those of Eonycteris, and 

 the crowns of the last upper premolar and first upper molar are 

 distinctly broader in proportion to their length. 



Species examined. — Gallinycteris rosenbergii Jentink. 



Remarks. — Though closely related to Eonycteris this genus ap- 

 pears to be well characterized by its heavier dentition and by the 

 absence of the small m 3 . Doctor Jentink has kindly sent me a 

 photograph of the skull of the type, which shows that the specimen 

 is a young adult with the teeth unworn. 



Genus KIODOTUS Blyth. 



1824. Maoroglossus Schinz, Naturgesch. und Abbild. Saugeth., p. 71 (not 



Macroglossum Scopoli 1777). 

 1827. Macroglossa Lesson, Man. de Mammalogie, p. 115. 

 1840. Eiodotus Blyth, Cuvier's Animal Kingdom, p. 69. 

 1848. Rhynchocyon Gistel, Naturgesch. Thierreiclis fiir hohere Schulen, p. 



ix (not of Peters, 1847). 

 1878. Macroglossus Dobson, Catal. Chiropt. Brit. Mus., p. 95. 

 1891. Carponycteris Lydekkee, in Flower and Lydekker, Mammals Living 



and Extinct, p. 654. 

 1899. Macroglossus Matschie, Flederm. des Berliner Mus. fiir Naturk., p. 95 



(part). 

 1898. Kiodotus Palmer, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, XII, p. Ill, April 30, 



1898. 



Type-species. — Pteropus minimus Geoffroy. 



Geographic distribution. — Malay region from Darjiling to the Phil- 

 ippines, New Guinea, and the Solomon Islands. 

 Number of forms. — Three or four species are currently recognized. 

 Characters. — Dental formula : 



-23. 1.-23456- .2-2 1-1 3-3 2-2 n , 



12-.1.-234567 % 2^2' ° \=V pm 3^3' m S^ 54 " 



Upper incisors subequal, minute, simple, distinctly projecting for- 

 ward, the diameter of the crowns much less than that of posterior 

 molars, the teeth of each pair separated by a space about equal to 

 diameter of tooth at alveolus, the pairs separated from each other by 

 a slightly wider space and from canines by diastemata double as 

 wide. Lower incisors similar to upper in form and position, but 

 outer tooth appreciably larger than inner and median space much 

 wider than that between outer incisor and canine, the latter interval 

 about equal to that between the incisors of each pair. Canines strong 



