EONYCTERIS. AI 
away; of guava it swallows the juice only. Blyth’s prisoners were 
females, and after a time they attracted a male which hovered about 
them for some days, roosting near them in a dark staircase; he was 
also caught, with one of the females who had escaped and joined him. 
Dr. Dobson writes that in three hours one of these bats devoured twice 
its own weight. This species usually roosts in trees. 
No. 34. MACROGLOSSUS (FTEROPUS) MINIMUS. 
The Tenasserim Fox-Bat. 
Natvie NaMe.—Lowo-assu (dog-bat), Javanese. 
Hasitat.—The Himalayas, Burmah, Tenasserim, and the Indian 
Archipelago. 
DESCRIPTION.— Ears half length of head, narrow and rounded at tip ; 
face abruptly narrowed in front of eyes ; muzzle long, narrow, cylindrical ; 
lower jaw slightly projecting; eyes large; tongue very long, last third 
attenuated, covered with brush-like papillae ; interfemoral membrane 
very narrow, especially at root of tail ; fur reddish brown, and very long. 
S1zE.—Head and body, 2,3, inches. 
Like other P#eropfi this bat feeds on fruit of every description, but 
particularly attacks the various cultivated varieties of Azgenia (Jamoon). 
GENUS EONYCTERIS. 
Muzzle long and cylindrical ; nostrils scarcely projecting ; upper lip 
with a shallow vertical groove in front; zwdex finger without a caw ; 
thumb short; part of the terminal phalanx included in the wing membrane ; 
metacarpal bone of the second finger equal to the index finger in length ; 
tail short and distinct; the base contained in the narrow interfemoral 
membrane ; tongue long, as rm ne 
Dentition: Inc. wis 
ie ; Cane, ; premolars, 2-7; molars, 3 
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No. 35. HEONYCTERIS SPELAA. 
HaABITAT.—Burmah. 
DescriptTion.—Head long; muzzle narrow, cylindrical, abruptly 
narrowed in front of the eyes; nostrils with an intervening emargination, 
which also passes down to the lips; tongue very long and pointed ; 
ears conical, with rounded tips; body clothed with very short and 
thinly-spread fur of a uniform dark brown colour; the fur on the head 
extends only as far as the inner corners of the eye, leaving the rest of 
the face naked ; tail half an inch. On each side, and a little behind 
