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Show 120 MR. G. E. DOBSON ON BATS [Feb. 20, narrower and is margined as in Cynopterus by raised naked edges (fig. 4); tongue very long, much attenuated in terminal fourth, armed with recurved, brush-like papillae; ears about as long as the muzzle, oval, rounded off above, the outer and inner margins of the ear-conch equally convex, so that the ear attains its greatest width in the middle (fig. 5). Interfemoral membrane very short behind; no trace of a tail in either of the specimens. Wing-membrane from the base of the middle toe, or from the space between the second and middle toe, and from the sides of the body. Fur moderately short, but very dense, extending thickly upon the wing-membrane as far outwards as a line drawn from the elbow to the knee, and more thinly for a considerable distance beyond, and also covering the short interfemo - ral membrane and the legs. Above bright reddish yellow, the base of the hairs dark ; crown of the head dark brown, the extremities of the hairs greyish yellow; a large patch round each eye dark brown, almost black ; anterior half of the muzzle pale buff, a narrow streak of the same colour passing backwards between the eyes ; the whole under surface of the body dark brown, almost black, the extremities of the hairs greyish ; the fur on the sides of the body longer, and the terminal half of the hairs brownish buff. Upper incisors small, forming a semicircle in front, and separated from the canines by a wide space on either side; central incisors somewhat larger than the outer ones, and converging slightly ; lower incisors very small, in pairs, separated by a space between; upper Fig. 6. Fig. 7. Upper and lower jaws oi M. melanops. canines remarkably long and strong, deeply grooved anteriorly by a longitudinal furrow : first upper premolar exceedingly small, and so close to the canine as to appear to be a small basal projection from that tooth ; second premolar larger than any of the other teeth (except the canines), in the centre of the wide space between the canine and first molar; third premolar shaped like the second premolar, but much smaller and close to the first molar; molars very narrow', scarcely raised above the gum ; first lower premolar larger than the |