€04 CYXOl'TliRUS SPHIXX GiXGETICrS. 



1 h. Cynopterus sphinx gaBgeticus, K. And. 



Cvnopterus marginatus, T>obsun, J. A. S. B. xlvi. p. 310 (1877: 

 "Siiid) ; J. Anderson, Cat. Mamm. hid. Mits. i. p. 104 (pt.) (1881 : 



Karachi) ; Mtirray, Vert. Zool. Sind, p. 4 (1884 : IMulleer ; Lark- 



hana) ; Blanford, Faun. B. Ind., Mamm. pt. ii. p. 263 (pt.) 



(1891). 

 Cvnoptenis sphinx <ranp;eticus, K. A?idersen, Ann. S; Mat/. N. II. 



'(8) vi. p. 623 (1 Dec. 1910 : Luclcuow; Nasik). 



Differential characters. — Similar to C. s. spMnx, but averaging 

 conspicuously larger ; see table p. 600. Laige individuals of the 

 present forni are equal in size to small individuals of C. s. iitthte- 

 cheilus (Sumatra, Java, Lombok), but the crauial rostrum of gan- 

 f/eticus averages relatively slightly longer, being usually a little 

 more (in titthcecheihts as a rule a little less) than one-fourth of the 

 total length of the skull, the dentition is rather weaker, the average 

 difference in the size of the two forms (both skulls and external 

 dimensions) considerable, and their areas of distribution widely 

 separated. 



Colour. — Young adults. Type (Lucknow) : Back between hair- 

 brown and broccoli-brown ; concealed bases of hairs considerably 

 lighter, more greyish ; sides of neck, throat, foreneck, sides of 

 breast and belly, and flanks dark warm wood-brown ; centre of 

 breast and belly hair-brown. Ears narrowly edged with white. — 

 A second specimen (paratype, same age and locality) is darker 

 above, more approaching brownish olive, paler drab below, and 

 with the bright-coloured area of the underparts more inclining to 

 cinnamon wood-brown and restricted to the sides of the belly. — 

 Skins of fully adult individuals not seen. 



Measurements. On pp. 634, 637, 640. 



Sj^ecimens examined. Three, viz. two from Lucknow and one from 

 Nasik, in the collections of the Bombay Natural History Societj' 

 and British Museum. 



Range. Probably generally distributed over the north-western 

 and central provinces of India, but so far only identified from 

 Lucknow and Nasik. 



Type in collection. Skull, lambda to gnathion 35'o, rostrum, 

 orbit to nares 9, mandible 27'8, c-m' (crowns, estimate) 12-3, 

 forearm 78, third metacarpal 5i"5 mm. 



a. $subad. sl(. ; Lucknow ; Sept. 1908 Bombay N. H. Society 10.11. 14.1. 

 skull. {Major A. Begbie). [P.]. (7>/^e of subspecies.) 



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