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The crania oft! aes present the following dimensioi 



In. Unas. 



Length from the condyloid fossa to 

 mterior margin of the max- 

 illary bone i'i 



Length from the hinder margin of 

 the parietal hones tntheanterior 

 margin of the maxillary horn- ... 7 



Breadth across zygomatic arches... G 



Greatest breadth of the cerebral 



region t 



Greatest breadth of the facial de- 

 pression i) 2 J 



Length of the bony palate 



Length of the series of teeth of the 

 upper jaw, exclusive of the in- 

 cisors 3^ 



Space between the points of the 

 upper canines j 2£ 



Space between the posterior molars 2J 



Greatest length of the lower jaw... o 6j[ 



Breadth of the lower jaw, taken in 

 a vertical direction from the co- 

 ronoid process 2\ 



Length of the series of teeth in the 

 lower jaw, exclusive of the in- 

 cisors 3§ 



Space between the points of the 



lower canines 1^ 



in. line*. 



(i v 





3| 





41 



23 



2 2 



2} 2* 

 -y: 5 



34 



1 1 







••3 



H 



11 



2, 



11 2j 



n 



2 



5 



11 \i 



3 ! 3 

 ii I 1 1 



I am especially indebted to Mr. Gould for having placed at my 

 disposal materials which have been of great service in making out 

 the Bpecies treated of in the present memoir. The use of specie 

 collected by him, with the knowledge of their exact localities. has 

 been a great assistance in more respects than one. Besides afford- 

 ing evidences leading to the determination of several spebies, in a 

 genus formerly supposed to be represented by only one, it has also 

 afforded materials which have tended in some measure to the deci- 

 sion of what constitutes a species and what is only a variety. 



It is a well-known fact, that many mammals and birds inhabiting 

 India are found to vary remarkably in size and colour in different 

 parts. Thus if we take some of the Bats as an instance suitable for 

 the present occasion (and we might equally adduce many other 

 mammals and birds) *, we shall find those inhabiting South India 

 and Ceylon smaller and darker in colour than those occurring more 

 northward; and on further examining the matter, we shall further 

 discover that they are referable to the same specie-, and that interme- 

 diate example- may be found at intermediate localities. Not only 

 in external conformation are they similar in their proportions, bul 

 also in the details of their osseous system. The skulls of these ra> 



* Among the Bats may lie particularly noticed ' ynnptcrii mari/n, 

 pkiku CoromandeMcua, and r asye r /i lfo papiBonu. Bee Dr. Kelaarfi 'Fauna 

 Zeylanica,' and the appended notes by Mr. Itlyth.a- also various notices of Mam- 

 malia by the latter gentleman in the Journal «.f the Asiatic Society. 



