602 rYNOPTERCS SPHINX SPHIXX. 



and iieigliljourliood (seven), JIadras (two), " Bengal" (two). South 

 Sylhet (one), Nan (four), uncertain localities (eight). 



lianrje. Indian Peninsula, extending south to Ceylon, on the 

 ■western side of the Peninsula at least as far north as Bombay, and 

 along the whole of the eastern side to Bengal, Assam (specimen 

 examined from Sylhet), North Burma (recorded from Kakhyen 

 Hills, Bhamo, and Mandalay), and North Siam (examined from 

 Nan). In Ceylon it occurs together with the small G. brachyotis 

 ceylonensh, in N.W. India it probably meets the larger race of 

 the species, C. splunx gangeticns, and in Assam, N. Burma, and 

 N. Siam it extends into the area of C. hrafhyotiH angidatvs. 



Types. — Described by Professor Martin Vahl (Copenhagen) from 

 two specimens obtained by Capt. D. C. Daldorf at Tranquebar, 

 among the leaves of Borassus jlahelliformis. The cotypes, once in 

 the Museum of the Copenhagen Natural History Society (" Natur- 

 liistorie-Selskabet "), are probably now no longer in existence (they 

 are not in the Copenhagen Zoological Museum*). For measure- 

 ments of a topotype see below, p. 603. I'or more than a century 

 Vahl's name and description of this bat were overlooked by all 

 authors except Fitzinger (see his synonyms of Pachysoma marpi- 

 natnm, 1. c, 1870); name revived by Matschie, 1899. — Veapertilio 

 Jihidatus, Vahl, is an alternative name of V. sphinx (the latter 

 name, Vahl says, was suggested to him by the collector; if not, he 

 should have preferred to name this hat Jibulatiis, because the body 

 " er nedad mod Hoftcrne ussedvanlig mere smal end paa de .ovrige 

 Arter og najsten ligesom sn0rt "). 



Pteropus jjusillus (1803) and marginal us (1S\0), E. Gcoffroy. — 

 Pt. pusilJus was based on two specimens (register number XCV) 

 from "I'lnde," "envoyes par le citoyeu Mace, naturaliate." Having 

 suppressed the Catalogue in which this name occurred, E. Geofiroy, 

 in 1810, redescribed the same specimens as Pt. marginatus, giving 

 as locality " la Bengale." Cotypes apparently lost. See measure- 

 ments below of a topotype and of a specimen from South Sylhet. 

 marginatus is the name under which the present bat was commonly 

 known from 1810 to 1899. 



Cynopterus marginatus yar. elli oil, Gray ; 1870. — Type localit}', 

 Dharwar, Southern Bombay (not, as given by Gray, " Madras ") ; 

 two cotypes in collection, skins (originally mounted). For measure- 

 ments of one cotype see below ; the other cotype is immature. 



Individual variation in size. — Subjoined a few measurements of 

 twenty adult specimens, from localities spread over the whole area 



* The important collections once in the possession of the Danish " Natur- 

 historie-Selskab' (established 1789, dissolved 1804) were acquired, in December 

 1801, by the newly founded E. Natural History Museum, Copenhagen. In the 

 course of the nest following sixteen years nearly all mounted specimens and 

 skins had to be destroyed owing to defective preservation. In an official com- 

 munication to the Trustees of the Museum Keinhardt wrote, 16 July, 1820, 

 that of the collections once belonging to the Copenhagen Natural History Society 

 scarcely anything was then left, except some alcoholic specimens, shells, and 

 insects ; all the other zoological specimens had perished or were on the point of 

 perishing (see C. C. A. Gosch, J. C. Schi^dte, i. p. 40 ; 1898). 



