CYSOPTKKUS, 



503 



east lo Borneo aud the Philippines, and beyond the limits of the 

 Region to Celebes, Sanghir and Suhi Islands, Lorabok and Timor. 

 [Peters's " Gi/nonycteris grandidierl," stated to be from Zanzibar, is 

 a Cynopterus b. bntchijods, and the locality no doubt wrong ; 

 Dobson's record of " Cynopterus scherzeri" from New Guinea 

 (P. Z. S. 1878, p. 875) rests on a mistake, the specimens in the Paris 

 Museum referred to by him (collected by Laglaize) being in reality 

 from the Sanghir Islands ; a specimen of Cynopterus in the Berlin 

 Museum is ticketed, probably erroneously, " Aru Inseln."J 



The following table shows the distribution of the species and 

 subspecies : — 



* Probably occurring, but no specimens examined. 



Habits. — Bats of this genus are common everywhere in suitable 

 places throughout South Asia and Malaya ; judging by the large 

 numbers brought home by collectors, they must be the uommonest, 

 or in any case the most easily captured, of all Oriental Fruit-bats, 

 lu the daytime they are fouud on trees, sometimes solitai'y in tha 



