PTEROPUS JAVANICUS. 
Ord. III?* Carnassiers, Cuvier. 1^ Famille. Les Cheiropteres. 
Ord. I. Primates, Linn. Syst 
Ord, XT. Volitantia, Ittiger. Fam. S3, Chiroptera. 
PTEROPUS, Briss. Erxleb. Cuv. Geoff. Wig. 
Vespertilio, Linn. GmeL Bodd. 
Spectrum, Lacep. 
Char. Gen. — Bentium formula ; Primores ±, Laniarii -£r> Moiares -gp Laniard 
distincti, primoribus longiores, conici. Molares obducti, coronide in medio sulco 
exarata margine utrinque carina parallela tritoria praedita. 
Rostrum acutum. Nams prosthemate nullo. Auriculae mediocres oblongae. 
Corpus patagio digitali, lumbari, et anali, denudatis cinctum. Patagiura anale 
excisura. Cauda aut brevis aut nulla. Mammm aperta? dure pectorales. 
Pedes pentadactyli, antici cliiropteri, halluce et digito prime unguiculatis, reliquis 
digitis inermibus ; postici ambulatorii. Ungues: falculae acutae, antipedum 
digitis elongatis, tribus interioribus exunguiculatis. 
* Ecaudati. 
Pteropus niger, collo supra rufo-oeliraceo, dorso pilis albis nigrisque commistis, 
rostro mediocri. 
Kalong 9 of the Javanese. 
Pteropus edulis, Geqffr. Mem. sur les roussetles. Ann. Mus. Tom. XV. p. 90. Note. 
MS. de M. Leschenault. 
Pteropus javamcus, Encydop. Method. Mammafogie, p. 109. Par M. A. G* 
Desmarest, 1820. 
IN the examination of the Pteropus rostratus, no difficulty occurred m 
detemuning the species ; the characters were strongly marked, and presented no 
variation in the numerous specimens contained in the collections of the Honourable 
East India Company. But the minuteness of the subject did not afford the means 
