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pale and the lower-parts more or less suffused with black or wholly fulvous ; 

 but in the Southern Tenasserim provinces it seems to grade into the more 

 deeply-coloured P. edulis of Peron and Lesueur, as figured in Horsfield's 

 "Zoological Eesearches in Java," which is recognized as distinct by Professor 

 Peters, who refers to it P. edulis et javanieus, Desm., P. edulis, funereus, et 

 pluto, Tern., P. nioolaricus * and Pachysomia giganteum, Fitzinger. It is 

 probable, therefore, that the latter, if truly distinct, should be recognized as 

 an inhabitant of the Tenasserim provinces ; but I suspect that it will be 

 found to grade into the other. 



13. Cynohtcteris amplexicaudata (J. 13). 



Pteropus amplexicaudatus, Geoff., Ann. and Mus. xv. p. 96 ; Peters, in P. Z. S. 1871, 

 p. 513 ; P. Uschenaultii, Desmarest ; P. seminudus, Kelaart. 



Tenasserim provinces, Siam, Amoy, Formosa, S. India and Ceylon, 

 Malay countries to Timor, Moluccas, Philippines. 



14. EoNYCTEEIS SPELSIA. 



Eonycleris spelcea, Dobson, Journ. As. Soo. B. 1873, p. 204 ; Macroglosam spelaus, 

 Dobson, J. A. S. B. xl. pi. x. fig. 3, 4, p. 261. 



Tenasserim, Siam. 

 The habit of resorting to caves implied by the specific name of this 

 kiodote has not, that I am aware of, been previously remarked of any of 

 the family, but is likely to be common to sundry of the smaller Ptero- 

 podiiee. [Specimens of Cynonyeteris amplexicaudata have since been obtained 

 by Mr. "W. T. Blanford, in the Nemakdun Salt Caves, Kishm Island, in the 

 Persian Gulf.] f 



[15. Maceoglosstts Murnrirs. 

 Steropus minimus, Geoff. Ann. du Mus. xv, p. 96 (1810) ; Steropus rostratus, Horsf. 

 Zool. Research, in Java (1825) ; Maeroglossm minimus, Temminck, Monogr. Mammal, ii. 

 p. 96 ; Horsf. Cat. Mamm. Mus. E. I. Comp. p. 29 ; Blyth, Cat. Mamm. Mus. As. Soc. 

 Beng. No. 57 ; Dobson, J. A. S. B. 1873, p. 205. 



A specimen in the Indian Museum, Calcutta, was obtained by Major 

 Berdmore in 1858, in the valley of the Sitang river, Tenasserim province. 

 This, the smallest species of frugivorous bat, has a rather wide distribution, 

 extending from the Himalaya to North Australia.] 



* [Pteropus nicobaricus, Dobson, J. A. S. B. 1873, p. 198. Quite distinct from both 

 P. edulis and P. medius.— G.E.D.] 



t [Dobson in P. A. S. B. May, 1873, p. 110.] 



