?6 Ad animals of Eastern Asia 
The ears are edged with white in front. The length of the 
forearm is 2 inches. 
Lucas's Short-nosed Fruit Bat, Penthetor lucasi, is another 
offshoot of the Cynopterns group. The tail is slender and only 
% inch long. The color is smoky brown, the areas about the 
neck and rump being almost bald. The forearm measures from 
2Ys to 2% inches in length. This Bat is found in the Malay 
Peninsula and Borneo. 
THE LONG-TONGUED FRUIT BATS 
(SUBFAMILY MACROGLOSSIN.E) 
This is a special subdivision of the Fruit Bat family, the 
members of which have tongues of a peculiar type. They are 
long, slender, and very extensile, for the purpose, it is thought, 
of reaching the nectar deep in flowers. To accommodate the 
movement of the tongue, the front of the lower jaw is some- 
what spoon-shaped and the lower front teeth lie forward and 
flat. The claw on the index finger of the wing, present in most 
True Fruit Bats, is absent in the genus Eonycteris of this sub* 
family. Of the half-dozen genera belonging here, most occur 
in the eastern part of Indonesia. 
The Dawn Bats, Eonycteris, are singularly like Rousettus in 
outward appearance and size. They can be distinguished at once 
by the absence of the claw of the index finger. The snout is long 
and slender. 
Eonycteris spelcea occurs in caves from southern Burma, the 
Malay Peninsula, and the Greater Sunda Islands to Laos, 
Tonkin, and Cochin-China. The color of this Bat is dark dusty 
brown, the head darker, the almost bare neck gray-white, the 
underparts scarcely paler than the upper. The hair everywhere 
is very short. Behind the shoulders, bare areas on the sides 
narrow the haired portion of the back to little more than % inch. 
The tail is scarcely more than y 2 inch long; the forearm varies 
