MACROGT.OSSCrS. 



No specimens examined. 



Habits. — " Like other species or Pteropus, it feeds on fruit of every 

 description, but particularly infests the various species of Eugenia 

 or Jambu, which are cultivated in gardens ; during the day it 

 remains suspeuded under branches of trees, or it retires under roofs 

 of old houses and sheds" (Horsfield, I. c, ISlil). " Gedurende den 

 dag verbergt het zich tusschen de reuzenbladeren der bananen, der 

 kokos- en pinangpalmen, of het zoekt de nieest dooreengevlochtene 

 en donkerste plaatsen in de booniachtige rietbossen der verschillende 

 bamboessoorten tot rustplaats op ; de Macroglossi leven deels van 

 vruchteu, deels van insekten, zijn bovendien ook groote liefhebbers 

 van de bladen en knoppen der boomen, inzonderheid van die des 

 kapokbooms (Eriodendrum aiifractuosum) " (S. Miiller, I. c, 1841- 

 44). " Fliegt einzeln oder paarweise heruni und verkriecht sich bei 

 Tag gerne zwischen den jungen noch zusammengerollten Schoss- 

 lingen der Pisangpflauze" (v. llosenberg, I. c, 1878). The above 

 seems to be all that is known of the life-history of these bats. 

 Two females collected by W. Htalker in Burn, August 1909 (10.3.3. 

 24, 25), had embrj'os about to be born. 



Affiidti.es. — In two characters Mmroglosstts is a little more 

 primitive than both Eonycteris and MegaJoglossus : the infraorbital 

 canal is less .shortened, and p' is somewliat less reduced in eize, , 

 Irs palate-ridges have remained aiinost precisely on the same stage 



