40 MR. C. BODEN KLOSS ON 



Maldive Arcliipelago by (2) Pt. ccriel, in Tenasserim by (3) Pt. 

 intermedius, and in tlie Malay Peninsula and Indo-Malayan 

 Archipelago by (4) Pt, vampyrus (six races). A fifth form, 

 Pt. lylei (Siam and Saigon) appears to be a perfectly distinct 

 species. 



" Since then the Mammal Survey of India, carried out under 

 the a.uspices of the Bombay Natural History Society, has enor- 

 mously increased our knowledge of the range of variation of 

 Pt. giganteus, and everything I have seen so far tends to con- 

 firm my belief that future systematists will be compelled to 

 i-egavd giganteus. ariel, intermedius, and vampyrus as local 

 I'epresentatives ■ (' svibspecies ') of one species, Pt. vampyrios — 

 intermedius being (as the technical name was intended by me to 

 indicate), both geographically and in its characters, the con- 

 necting-link between the western (Indian and Indo-Chinese) 

 giganteits and the eastern (Indo-Malayan) vampyrus, and ariel., 

 an only slightly and probably imperfectly differentiated island 

 form of giganteus." — Knud Andersen. 



[The occurrence of this animal on Koh Kut is interesting, as 

 it must apparently have arrived there by flight from the Malay 

 Peninsula across the Gulf of Siam — a jovirney over water of 

 about 250 miles — ^since the only flying-fox known on the main- 

 land from Bangkok to Siam is P. lylei, a veiy distinct species, 

 while the continent west of Bangkok is apparently occupied by 

 another species, P. intermedius, — C.B.K,^ 



14, Oynqpterus brachyotis angulatus Miller. 



15. Cynopterus brachyotis brachyotis S. Miiller. 



1437-1440. All c^ ad. Koh Chang. 7th December, 1914. 



1508. c? ad, Koh Mehsi East. 13th December, 1914. 



1579. J ad.; 1580, ^ ad.; 1581, 2 ad.; 1582. 2 ad.; 1583. 

 5 ad. Koh Kra. 17th December, 1914, 



1599. d ad.; 1600. $ subad. ; 1601. $ ad. Koh Klum. 

 18th December, 1914. 



1786. c^ ad. Koh Kut, 30th December, 1914. 



" The four specimens from Koh Chang I refer to C. h. 

 angulatths ; all the others are undoubtedly C, h, brachyotis. 



*' I have carefully examined and measured all the specimens. 

 Unfortunately, all being skii:is *, I have been unable to verify 

 the collector's measurements of the ears, as given on the label of 

 each specimen. Not that I have the slightest doubt of the 

 accuracy of his measurements, but what I do have is a strong 



* I should like to take this opportunitj' of urging on collectoi's the advisability of 

 preserving in alcohol a fairly good number of the bats obtained. Skins are in- 

 dispensable for a study of the colours of the fur, but the shape and size of the ears 

 and (in leaf-nosed bats) the details of the nose-leaves are in this group of mammals 

 such important items that I often, during my work for the Catalogue, have had to 

 deplore the now almost universal habit of experienced collectois of making nearly 

 every good specimen of a bat into a skin. My earnest advice is, if only one 

 specimen is obtained, put it in alcohol, if several, put about luilf of theni (fvnd not 

 only tlie n^ost badly damaged ones) in alcohol. — K. A, 



