62 PTEROPODIBiE. 



The other specimens of Pt. leucocephalus do not differ in any other 

 respect from this one, and all agree in structure and in the general 

 colour of the fur (though the head, neck, and under surface are paler 

 than usual) with other examples of Pt. medius. 



Specimens from Cej'lon appear some-what larger than those from 

 the peninsula of India ; and the greater width of the intercanine 

 space, in an old individual from that locality, led Dr. Gray to make 

 it the type of Pt. Jcelaartii, which does not differ from specimens of 

 Pt. medius from that continent in any respect except size, the inter- 

 canine space being wider in proportion to its greater size. 



(Por measurements see Table, p. 55.) 



Hab. Peninsula of India, Ceylon, Arracan, Burma. The west- 

 ward limit of this species in the peninsula of India corresponds 

 closely to the course of the river Indus *, whence it extends east- 

 wardly throughout every part of the peninsula south of the Punjab 

 and the Himalaya ; its eastward limit appears to be Burmah, south 

 or east of which country it has not hitherto been found, its place being 

 taken in the Malay Peninsula and in the Andaman and Nicobar 

 Islands by Pt. edulis, to which it is very closely allied. 



Pt. medius is the only species of the genus as yet known to in- 

 habit the peninsula of India. Specimens from Kachh, Madras, and 

 Bengal exhibit on comparison no appreciable difference. Wherever 

 fruit is abundant these Bats (the " Flying Foxes " of Europeans 

 resident in India) are to be found ; and when food becomes scarce 

 in the neighbourhood of their accustomed haunts they often travel 

 great distances to obtain it, returning invariably to their sleeping- 

 places about sunrise. Thus Captain Hutton mentions that they make 

 nightly visits to the fruit-gardens of the DehraDoon below Mussooree 

 in the Himalayas from the middle of August to the end of September, 

 performing a journey of from 25 to 30 miles at the least. 



a. (J ad. sk. Pachora, Bombay. 



b. c? ad., al. Nipal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P. 

 c-e. c? ad. sks. Nipal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. "P. 

 /. ad. sk. Assam. 

 g-J. 5 ad. sks. India. 



k, I. 5 ad. sks. P India. 



??!. cT f^d. sk. India. 



n. 9 ad. sk. Ceylon. Captain J. Stevens [P.]. 



(Type of Pteropus kelaartii, Gray.) 

 o. 2 ad. sk. Ceylon. Zool. Soc. Coll. 



2', q,- $ ad. sks. No history. 



r. <S skeleton. 

 s. imm. skeleton. 

 <-i\ skulls of c-e. 



w-z. skulls. Bengal. General Hardwicke [P.]. 



a'- skull. _ _ _ Nipal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 



h'. skull of h, (with additional posterior upper molars). 



* Dr. Bowman, H.iVT. s Indian Army, informs the writer that he saw a colony 

 of this species m the second range of hills in Kelat, beyond the mouth of the 

 Indus, and that they extend as far north as the first pass, about sixty miles. 



