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ZOOLOGICAL LITERATURE. 
/ Galago elegantulus is regarded as distinct from Q, crassicaudatus by Slack,* 
I Proc. Ac. Nat. Sc. Philad, 1867, p. 37. 
Galago demidoifii described by J. A. Smith, Proc. R. Phys. Soc. Edinb. 
'\^1864-65, p. 303. 
FERiE. 
Chiroptera. 
Pteropus» Prof. Peters, v/ho has been for some time engaged 
in the study of Chiroptera, has given a synopsis of 26 species, 
which he refers to the limited genus Pteropus, after having ex- 
amined the typical examples in the Leyden, Paris, and London 
Museums. He characterizes the group of Pteropodes generally, 
and adds the synonymy of each species. Monatsber. Ak. Wiss. 
Berlin, 1867, pp. 320-333. Three new species are described, viz. : 
— Pt. ocularis, from Ceram, p. 326 ; PA macrotis, from Booroo, 
p. 327; and Pt. celebensis, p. 333. [He also mentions Mac- 
Gillivray^s Pteropus geddiei] the Recorder recollects having seen 
MacGillivray's description of it in a popular English periodical 
about the year 1860, when Cumming received the first examples 
from Aneiteum, where MacGillivray was then collecting.] 
In a second paper (/. c. pp. 865-872) the synopsis of the 
Pteropodes is concluded; it comprises Cynonycteris (Ptrs.) with 
4 species, Cynopterus (F. Cuv.) with 3, Ptenochirus (Ptrs.) with 
1, Megcerops (Ptrs.) = (Temm.) with 1, Harpyia (111.) 
with 1, Epomophorus (Benn.) with 8, Hypsignathus {KWqw) with 1, 
Macroglossus (F. Cuv.) with 2, Cephalotes (Geoffr.) with 1 
species. 
Pteropus gmldii, sp. n., Peters=Pf. /zmerews (Gould), 1. c. p. 703, Australia. 
Pteropus dupreanus, sp. n., Sclilogel & Polloii, Recliorcli. Faun. Madag. p. 17. 
Pteropus palmarum is described as a new species by Von lleuglin, Nov. 
Act. Ac. Carol. Leopold. Nat. Cur, 1866, p. 34, Upper Nile 
Macroglossus minimus, var. austi'alis, Peters, 1. c. p. 13, West Australia. 
Epomophorus pusillus, sp. n., Peters, =J^. schoensis (Tomes), 1. c. p. 870, 
West Africa. 
Saccoptery/v, Prof. Peters has published preliminary notes on 
the species of this genus and allied forms, chiefly from an ex- 
amination of examples preserved in spirits. Monatsber. Ak.‘ 
Wiss. Berl. 1867, pp. 470-481. These bats may be subdivided 
into several groups : — 
1. Saccopteryx (Rl.) with S. leptura and S. bilineata. 
2. Peropteryx (Ptrs.) with Vespertilio caninus (Wied.), Prohoscidea viUosa 
(Gervais), Peropteryx kappleri, sp. n., p. 473, and Pet'opteryxleucoptera, sp. n., 
p. 474, both from Surinam. 
3. Cormura (Ptrs.) witb Emballonura brevirostris (Wagn.), with figure. 
♦ We have not been able to obtain the volume or paper in which this 
species is described. 
