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Show 118 MR. G. E. DOBSON ON BATS [Feb. 20, tremities of the hairs on the head and about the ears yellow ; on the back the greater part pale buff; a dark vertebral line, as in H. cephalotes, extends from a point between the shoulders to the tail; beneath dull yellowish buff throughout. Upper canine on each side with a prominent external cusp; last lower molar with a circular crown. In H. cephalotes the upper canine has a blunt ill-defined external projection, and the crown of the last lower molar is oval or quadrilateral. The skull in this species is also very much larger and differently shaped. The frontal bone is deeply grooved between the postorbital processes; and the nasal bones terminate at such a height above the prsemaxilla as to be on the same level with the floor of the groove behind them ; the zygomatic arch is more than twice as thick as in H. cephalotes; and the postorbital processes of the frontal are longer. The following Table exhibits the measurements of the type of this species, of another, immature specimen with the epiphyses of the finger-bones unconsolidated, and of a perfectly adult specimen of H. cephalotes from Timor. H. major ,, (immature). H. cephalotes TS; 03 CD -fl =4H o -bflD CD >-* 0•3 - CD - 1-55 O-fiS 1-5 1-3 0-55 0-6 a 03 CD S-I <.+o* - 31 2-95 2-4i .O a 2 A43 - 1-3 l-S 0*9 _" blO -J-3 CO S-i Cfl ***• 2-2 2-0 1-6 ^ *S PH CD J*- fl O •*f*l J2 Oa aw OoD CO - 215 1*9 1*6 CuD rHOJ bo 03 fl -A Cfl PH -3 -S C l-H 0 -w 0 CD 02 - 1-65 1-55 1-25 -H -H CD 03 bOJ= 3 -^ T3 fl fl CN O *-' CD CD 02 - 2*3 21 1*7 u pl. CD £r cb§e 0J3 "S 3 3 .0 ^M " 2 0 1-85 1-6 - . bo 2 fl -fl -e g PCQH Ir1 I-H SH •-, 3 .0 «M - 10 0-95 0*75 ^ -zi OD 03 bn_a lifin ad p -tH CN H w 3 O =*H - 12 105 0-85 03• 3 *HH ** 1-2 11 0-85 m *S £ *3 fl c3 -j_i Q O =2 - 0*7 0-7 0-5 CEPHALOTES PERONII. Cephalotes peronii, Geoffroy, Ann. du Mus. xv. p. 104 (1810); Temminck, Monogr. Mammal, ii. p. 106. Hypoderma peronii, Is. Geoffroy, Diet. Classiq. xiv. p. 708. The collection contains two specimens of this species-an immature female, and a young male with milk-dentition. In the latter there are four upper incisors and two lower. Group II. MACROGLOSSI. MACROGLOSSUS MINIMUS. Pteropus minimus, Geoffroy, Ann. du Mus. xv. p. 97 (1810). Pteropus rostratus, Horsfield, Zoolog. Researches in Java (1825). 1 I have found this to be the constant length of the forearm of all perfectly adult specimens of H. cephalotes from the Malay archipelago. |