XVUl INTRODUCTION 



Wi^U-marked species in the extreme south of the peninsula. Whilst 

 Jfacaoiis radiafus of Southern India replaces Inuus rhesus of all Nor- 

 thern and Central India, a well-marked form of this group, hums 

 silenus is peculiar to the south-west corner of the peninsula. 



The Lemurs are only outliers of the Madagascar Fauna, and 

 whilst one species is very abundant in the extreme south, another 

 Malayan species extends sparingly through Burmah into the north- 

 eastern- corner of Bengal. 



Of the Frugivorous Bats, two species are spread- throughout the 

 whole of India, and one additional species occurs in the south only. 

 Among Insectivorous Batsj the HJiinolophvs group is much more de- 

 veloped on the Himalayas than in all the rest of India ; seven species 

 being recorded as Himalayan, whilst only two occur in southern 

 India ; but the Jlipposideros section, which is more Malayan, 

 is about equally represented in the north and south of India. 

 A peculiar form, Ccdops of Blyth, has hitherto only been found in 

 the Bengal Sunderbuns. The yellow-bellied Ni/ctieeji occur pretty 

 generally throughout India, but the largest species is from the south ; 

 whilst a peculiar type, N. ornalus, is only found in the Himalayas. 

 Most of the other Bats are generally distributed through the con- 

 tinent, except a few European forms, which only occur on the Hima- 

 layas. 



Moles are only found in India in the south-east portion of the 

 Himalayas, being apparently an offshoot from the Indo-Chinese 

 region; and the Shrews are moi-e numerously developed in the same 

 portion of the Himalayas than in other parts of India. One species 

 of the peculiar Insectivorous genus, Tupaia, a Malayan-form, occurs 

 in southern India, and another spreads from Burmah into the 

 south-eastern Himalayas. 



India abounds in Carnivora. Two species of Bears are Hima- 

 layan, and one of a somewhat different type extends throughout the 

 whole plains of India. A very remarkable form of Ursidse, AUurv.s 

 fdgens, is peculiar to the Eastern Himalayas. One Marten is 

 found both on the Himalayas and Neelgherries, but Weasels, in 

 India, only occur on the former range. There is only one species 

 of Otter found in the South of India, but two are found in Bengal, 



