178 Catalogue of Mammalia inhabiting [No. 171. 



Hab. — Singapore, Pinang, and other Islands in the Straits of Malacca, 

 Lancavy Islands, Malayan Peninsula. 

 Java, Sumatra, Borneo, Pelew Islands, Siam. 

 Two individuals are never of precisely the same design and ground- 

 colour, which latter varies from clear ashy-grey to greyish-brown or 

 chesnut. The white spots on the back of the anterior extremities, 

 appear to be constant in every age. Though there are four mammae, 

 situated in pairs one above the other, close to the axilla, of a number of 

 females with young, none had more than one offspring, which was car- 

 ried wrapped in the wide mantle-like membrane. In several shot on 

 the hills at Pinang, the stomach contained vegetable matter, but no re- 

 mains of insects. In confinement, plantains constitute the favourite 

 food, but deprived of liberty the animal soon pines and dies. The ante- 

 rior margin of the broad smooth tongue has a fringed appearance, pro- 

 duced by a number of rounded papillae. In a male, measuring from the 

 apex of the nose to the root of the tail one foot four inches, the tail nine 

 inches, the intestinal canal was of the following dimensions : 



Small Intestines, 4 feet 4 inches. 



Large ditto, 7 „ 7 „ 



Caecum, o ,, 11 ,, 



Costae verae seven pairs, spuriae six pairs. 



CARNIVORA. 



Cheiroptera. 

 Insectivora. 

 Gen. — Rhinopoma, Geoffroy. 

 Rhinopoma, Hardwickii, Gray. 

 Syn. — Vespertilio (Rhinopoma) Hardwickii, Elliot. 

 Hab. — Malayan Peninsula. 



Southern Mahratta country, Calcutta, Allahabad,* Agra,f 

 Mirzapore. 

 A single male, in no way differing from Bengal individuals, was ob- 

 tained by Captain Congalton, H. C. Steamer ' Diana/ in a cave on an 

 island in Girbee river, in Latitude 8° 0', on the Malayan Peninsula. 



This species is provided with a true caecum, the existence of which 

 in all Cheiroptera has erroneously been denied, or restricted to the car- 



* Numbers inhabit the subterraneous Hindoo place of worship within the Fort at 

 Allahabad. 



f In the Taj -Mahal. 



