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north-west corner of the Indian Peninsula ; li. le.Juncndti occur. 

 all over the Teninsnla as well as in Lulo-Gluna, but i« in Ceyloa 

 rep aced by a very closely related peculiar fori, H. semJdus. 

 27nL^M7 %^^" ^"^''" ""^ Himalayan representative of 



tHvi 1 df M 7^> ■'■ r"^'^''"' (^'■""' ^^^'''^^ it only dm-ers in 

 trivial details; Peninsular specimens (subspecies ^fuanieus) are 

 nidistinguishable from Ceylonese, but slightly different from 

 ilimalayau (subspecies leucocej^halns) a.d :\raldive specimens (««,?) 

 Cpioptcrus spJnu.v has in continental South Asia differentiated into 

 two subspecies, the one (sphin.v) ranging over the southern ar-d 

 eastern provinces of the Indian Peninsula! south to Ceylon orth- 

 east nortiern Indo-China, the other („eticus) known ojy 

 rom the central and north-western provinces of India. In addition 

 ioJtoMus ssminudns Ceylon possesses a second peculiar Pruit- 

 bat, Cynopten.s brachi/olis ceylonensis, to which there is no 

 equivalent in the Indian Peninsula, all the other forms of C. bracZ 

 otis being Indo-ilalayan or Indo-Chinese. ^ 



lado- Chinese suhnyion. 

 6 genera, 14 species (15 forms), viz. llonsetu,s (two species) 

 l^eropus (seve.i species, eight forms), Cynopterus two ^"c e.) 

 >Sp]ueruts (one), Eouycteris (one), Macroylossus (one). 



Continental Indo.China.-Roasettus JeschenauUi and Cynonteru, 

 splnn. .pAuu- are invaders from west, the Indian Penmsuk 

 h same may be said of the Himalayan Pteropus gigar.teus ulco- 

 cei^alns, but it is subspecitically distinct from the Indian form 

 Evidence of the affinities of the present area with Indo-ialaTa 

 are, first the direct invaders from the latter; second, those forms 



closelj related to Iiido-ilalayan forms. To the first cate^orv 

 beongi?o«.... a.n,ae.icaud[at.s, Eonycteris spekeJ^titZl 

 rjlossus nunnnus. To the second, I'terojn^s inieJediusWenasserim) 

 a representative of the Indo-Mala/an Ft. van>pyrL ■ S Si 

 (Siam and Sa,gon), a peculiar species of the slme group and 

 fi-hpomelanus condorensis (Siam, Cambodja, Palo Condor) a local 

 race o a widey-distnbutcd Indo- and Austro-Malayan spedes 

 Cynopterus brachyoUs anyulatus, rather than being an invader from 

 wTrd'thr^::':^;'''^^ "' ^"^^-^^Z-- ^-^ -^ch h°as spread Luh- 

 .fonh 8 a highly peculiar autochthonous genus and species of the 

 Cynopterus group so far known only from Burma. 



Formosa.-T\x& single species recorded, Ptevopus formosvs, has 



ts closest relatives to the south in the Amboina groip (Pt. lops) 



to the north in the South Liu-kiu islands (Pt. dasymallus). ^ ^' 



Jl^^i/^-^^^-^-j^^i^lcmds.-Tbe two species of Pteropus known from 

 these islands belong to different groups of the genus. Pt cZ 



ForL"an/y ,°^«"t-"-l -^--; ^'^ '^-^ repre^sentative of tte 

 lorrao.an/^. fonnosue; Pt. loochoensis a species of the otherwise 

 entirely Polynesian Pt, rnariannus group. omerwise 



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