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Show 116 MR. G. E. DOBSON ON BATS [Feb. 20, whole under surface of the body bright reddish brown, the hairs paler and more yellowish towards the base ; on the back dark brown, intermixed with bright sulphur-yellow, which replaces the brown across the loins ; interfemoral membrane with longer, dark brown, almost black hairs. PTEROPUS CAPISTRATUS. Pteropus capistratus, Peters, Monatsber. Akad. Berl. 1876, p. 316, pl. A single specimen of an adult female of this remarkable species agreeing in all respects with the original description. The single central longitudinal black line dividing the forehead, with a similar dark-coloured streak across the face on each side between the eye and the angle of the mouth, as well as its considerably larger size, at once distinguish this species from Pt. personatus, to which it is in all other respects very closely allied. CYNONYCTERIS BRACHYOTIS, sp. nov. Resembles C. minor, Dobson, in size and in the nakedness of the extremities, but may be at once distinguished by the much shorter ears, longer muzzle, and deciduous first upper premolars. Ears short, oval, rounded off above ; a prominent thickened lobule at the base of the outer margin of the ear-conch ; muzzle long and narrow, nostrils and upper lip as in C. amplexicaudata. Fur short, dark brown above, with greyish tips ; beneath light greyish brown. On the upper surface the back of the neck and shoulders (in an adult female) is very thinly covered, almost naked, and the fur of the body scarcely extends upon the membranes ; the tibias and feet and adjacent interfemoral membrane are naked; beneath, a broad band of fur extends outwards behind the elbow and forearm, lessening in width towards the carpus. First upper premolar very small in immature individuals, deciduous in adults ; remaining teeth as in C. amplexicaudata. In the following Table the relative measurements of this species and of C. minor, Dobson, are given. C. brachyotis C. ininor CO .fl O •5 CUD a CD 1-5 1*55 „ eye from nose. 0-55 0-46 s-cS eg 0-55 0.68 a u CS CD 2-85 2*8 a 0-9 09 S* CD be fl en ••a n o CD O co 4-5 4-4 ti CD 6J0 n efl rfl %- 3*4 3*3 es IS 1-15 105 | CD fl ca o 0*7 1 0*75! |