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Show 316 MR. G. E, DOBSON ON BATS [Mar. 5, and eyes very conspicuous where it passes round the lower jaw in front of the throat. CYNONYCTERIS BRACHYOTIS. Cynonycteris brachyotis, Dobson, P. Z.S. 1877, p. 116. A large number of specimens representing all ages of this animal; so that the full size of the species can be determined with considerable certainty. This scarcely differs from that given in m y original description. In the largest specimen, an adult male, the forearm is 2*9 inches, or only one twentieth of an inch longer than that of the type. In all, the peculiar nakedness of the shoulders is present, and the fur of the sides of the neck radiates from a central point near the place of origin of the antebrachial membrane, corresponding to the position of neck-glands, which, in the adult male referred to above, are covered on each side by a circular tuft of coarse yellow hairs, as in most of the species of the genus Pteropus. The colour of the fur is very similar in all, being greyish yellow-brown, the base of the hairs darker ; in the immature specimens the fur is longer and darker throughout. In all, except the oldest individuals, there is a minute first upper premolar between the approximated canine and second premolar, generally so small as to be seen with difficulty. CEPHALOTES PERONII. Cephalotes peronii, Geoffroy, Ann. du Museum, xv. p. 104 (1810). More than one third of the whole collection consists of specimens of this species, which, therefore, appears to be very abundant in these islands. From the young with milk-dentition to the aged with worn teeth, all have the back equally naked from the shoulders backwards. They correspond closely in measurements and other respects with specimens from other parts of the Austro-Malayan subregion, of which this species is eminently characteristic. MELONYCTERIS MELANOPS. Melonycteris melanops, Dobson, P. Z.S. June 1877, pp. 119-121, figs. 4-7, and pl. xvii. Pteropus (Cheiropteruges) alboscapulatus, Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, July 1877, p. 17. A n adult female, scarcely differing in the colour of the fur from those previously described, having also the white spot near the place of origin of the antebrachial membrane from the shoulder. The canines appear to be as large as in the male. The wings are attached posteriorly, as in other specimens, to the base of the third toe, or to the space between the bases of the second and third toes. This is undoubtedly the species described under the name of Pteropus (Cheiropteruges) alboscapulatus by Mr. Pierson Ramsay in |