CATALOGUE. 27 



HAB. Java, Sumatra, Borneo, Penang, Siam, Malayan Penin- 

 sula. 



In Java, the Galeopithecus is confined to particular districts, where 

 it is met with chiefly on slightly-elevated hills, covered with a fertile 

 soil, and abounding with young luxuriant trees, the branches of which 

 afford it a safe concealment during the day. As the evening approaches, 

 it leaves its retreat, and is seen in considerable numbers making ob- 

 lique leaps from one tree to another ; it also discovers itself by a croak- 

 ing, hoarse, disagreeable noise. The membrane or expansile skin, by 

 which it is enabled to make oblique leaps, resembling that of the 

 Flying Squirrel, is continued on each side from the neck to the fore- 

 feet, thence to the hind-feet, again to the tip of the tail, and to the 

 roots of the claws. If, unfortunately, an individual is forced from its 

 usual abode, it advances by slight awkward leaps, until it meets with 

 an object on which it can ascend by its claws. If surprised during the 

 day in its concealment, it may easily be taken, as its habits are strictly 

 nocturnal. 



The Galeopithecus lives entirely on young fruits and leaves ; those 

 of the cocoa-nut tree and of the Bombax pentandrum are its favourite 

 food ; and it commits great injury to the plantations of these, which 

 surround the villages of the natives. 



Fam. VESPERTILIONID.E. 



PTEROPINA, Gray, Catal Mamm. Br. Mus. Sijst. 



List. XIX. 

 Genus PTEROPUS, Brisson et al 



VESPERTILIONIS Species, Linn, et al. 



29. PTEROPUS EDULIS, Perm et Lesueur. Temm., Mo- 

 nogr< I. p. 172. Cantor ', Cat. of Mamm. p. 14. 



Pteropus javanicus, Desmar., Mamm. p. 109. Horsfield, 



Zool. Research, in Java, with a figure. 

 KALONG, of the natives of Java. 



KLUANG or KALTJWANG, of the Malays of Sumatra, and of 

 the peninsula of Malacca. 



HAB. Java and other Islands of the Indian Archipelago. 

 A. and B. Horsfield's Collection from Java. 

 C. Finlayson, from Siam. 

 Several skins. 



