the Bats of the Famify Megadermatida), 135 



Key to the Forms. 



A. Skull smaller: 27-8-29 mm. ; prenatal notch pos- 



teriorly wider, flattened 1. H. li/ra. 



a. On the avernfre larger: fore, inn 6o-(i9 mm \ n. E. I. lyra. 



b. On the aveni^e pmaller : forearm 63-(J8 mm. . . \b. E. I. caurina. 



B. Skull lar^'er: 29-.'{— ''.2 ram.; prenasal notch 



narrower, rounded posteriorly 2. E, sinensis. 



1. Eucheira lyra, Gcofif. 



Chief characters. — Skull and teetli markedly smaller than 

 in E. siiiei)si.<!. Total length of skull 27'8-29 mm., in 

 E. sinensis 29"/'-32mm.; upper tooth-row 10'8-11'5 ram., 

 in E. sinen.<iis 11*5-121 mm. Prenasal notch proportionally 

 rather shorter, wider behind, posterior margin flattened. 



Bange. — Indian Peninsula. 



Races. — Two : E. lyra lyra and E. lyra caurina. 



1 a. Eucheira lyra lyra, Geoff. 



1810. Megaderma lyra, Geoffroy, Ann. Mus. d'Hist. Xat. xv. p. 190. 

 1839. J'espertUio {^Meyudenna) cnniatica, lOIliot, 3Iadr. Journ. vol. x. 



p. 9G. 

 1844. Megaderma spectrum, "Wagner, in Hiigel's Elaschmir, iv. p. 5G9. 

 l.':<47. E. schistaeea, Hodgson, J. A. S. B. xvi. p. 8d9. 



Characters. — The present race can only be distinguished 

 from E. I. caurina by average characters : skull 2J-2'Jd mm., 

 upper tooth-row 11"1-11'5, torearm G5-69, against 27-8-2S*3, 

 10"S-11, (J3-tJ-i respectively in E. I. caurina. 



Specimens examined. — 18 (K) skins) and 20 skulls, viz. : 

 ''Madras" (11), iSecunderabad (1), Bengal (G). 



Jiange. — Indian Peninsula, east of 75° E. 



Geojfroy's Megaderma lyra. — Type locality: one of tJie 

 Dutch factories in India, probably East Coast of ^Madras. 

 Geofliroy separated lyra as a distinct species on account of the 

 shape and size of the noso-leaf (•' Feuille rectangulaire, 

 la f(>llicule de nioitie plus petite," I. s. c). 



Elliotts Mecjadtrma camatica. — Type locality : Southern 

 Maratha Country. Elliot relied on the presence of only 

 three teeth in the upper row behind the canine to justify the 

 separation o{ camatica, but he seems himself to have been in 

 doubt as to the validity of the species, inasmuch as he adljJ 

 " J/, /yra ? " The British Museum has several S[)ecimen3 

 colkcted by Elliot, all of them unquestionably ly a. 



Hodgson's Eucheira schiUacea. — Type locality: Siligori, 

 N.E. Bengal. Hodgson left Nepal for good in 184:4, and 

 the context (/. *•. c.) shows that he had never seen any species 



