IG CUEIBOPTEEA. 



escape one night from my house in Fort St. George in 1845, and found 

 their way along windows, balconies, and roofs, to some of the public offices 

 in the neighbourhood, considerably alarming some of the native writers by 

 clambering in at the open windows. 



The slender Lemur occurs also in Ceylon. Kelaart mentions that the 

 intestines of one examined by him were 35 inches long, and the ceecum 2 

 inches. A black variety is mentioned by Tennent as found in Ceylon.* 



Tarsium, with one species, from Java, is the only other Asiatic member 

 of this family. Lemur, Indris, and Lichanotus are Madagascar forms, and 

 Galago is African. Cheiromys, a very singular form from Madagascar, 

 having teeth allied to those of the Eodents, is generally placed in this 

 family. 



The genus Galeopithecus is usually made the type of a distinct family, 

 Galeopithecid^. They are the flying lemurs of English authors, having 

 a membrane connecting their limbs. They have not the power of sustain- 

 ing flight, are nocturnal and insectivorous, with pectoral mammsB, and 

 sleep with their heads downwards. They are natives of Malayana, and 

 may be said to form a link to the frugivorous bats. 



Sub-order. Cheieoptera, Bats. 



Incisors, various in number ; canines, distinct ; molars uniformly ena- 

 melled, with many points, or with a flat depressed crown. Feet, pendacty- 

 lous ; bones of the anterior extremities and especially of the fingers (except 

 the poUux which is always unguiculate) elongated, sustaining a large naked 

 membrane serving for flight ; posterior toes all unguiculate. Two pectoral 

 mammae. 



Bats, as is well known, are nocturnal animals of usually small size, with 

 very small eyes and large ears, capable of sustaining a rapid and continuous 

 flight for some hours. Most are insectivorous, a few frugivorous. They 

 produce one or at most two young ones at a birth, which are of a very 

 large size compared to the parent, and are canied about by her. Theif 

 sense of hearing and smell is very acute. They roost in the day-time in 

 trees, in the hollows of trees, in caves, old buildings, under roofs, &c., 

 hanging head downwards by their hind claws. They may be said to te- 

 somble Insectivora with the addition of wings. 



The skull is thin, the temporal bone, especially its acoustic portion and 

 the cochlea, much developed. Thie ribs are extraordinarily long, and the 



• May not this be thelast species ( 



