CHIROPTERA.
Eur above, dark brown with greyish tips; beneath, light greyish brown for two-
thirds the length of the hairs, the remaining portion ashy.
Inner incisors slanting inwards, long and bifid; outer incisors very short and
acutely pointed, placed in front of the inner incisors, and lying on their outer sides.
Length, head and body
Breadth - „
Length, tragus
Breadth, „
Length, forearm
„ thumb
„ second finger
„ fourth „
,, tibia
„ caloaneum .
„ foot and claws
Habitat.—Momein, Yirnnan. Elevation about 5,000 feet.
EMBALLONURIDÆ, Dobson.*.
Genus T a p h o z o t j s , Geoffroy.
* T apblozo us l o n g im a n u s , Hardwicke.
Taphozous longimanus, Hardwicke, Linn. Trans, vol. xiv. 1826, p. 525 ; Dobson, Proc. Zool. Soc.
1875, p. 551.
This species appears to be widely distributed throughout the Burmese Provinces.
T. melanopogon inhabits the same localities generally, and resembles it very closely
in size. I t may be distinguished readily from that species by the possession in
males of a submental pouch, and, in females, by traces of the margins of this
pouch. As the black beard is not always present in the males of T. melmopogon,
a careful examination is always necessary to distinguish the species.
i Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. Nov. 1876, p. 347.
INSECTIVORA.
NYCTICIBIDÆ.
Genus N y c t i c e b u s , Geoffr.
* N y c t ic e b u s c in e r e u s , A. M. Edwards.
Nycticebus cinereus, A. M. Edwards, Nouv. Arch, du Mus. vol. iii. p. 867; Bull. 1869, p. 7, pl. I l l
figs.
Nycticebus tardigradus, Blyth, var. A, Cat. Mamm. As. Soc. Mus. 1868, p. 18.
A Nycticebus, which agrees with M. A. M. Edwards’ figure of the Siam form,
occurs in the Kakhyen Hills to the east of Bhamô. I procured an adult male,
and it agrees with N. cmereus, A. M. Edw., viz., in colouring, in the form of the
skull, and in the number of incisors in the upper jaw. A. M. Edwards remarks
that “ les yeux sont entov/rés d’ivn cercle de poils généralement blonds,” but in his
figure the eyes are surrounded with brown, whilst a white band occurs between
the eye and the ear, external to the brown area surrounding the eyes, and joining
above and below with the central white area of the face, and the Bhamô specimen
in these respects resembles the figure.
I t is the form which is found in the Assam region, from whence I have frequently
obtained it alive, of both sexes, young and adult. The specimens received
by me have generally come from the Garo Hills, but Blyth1 records i t from
Tippera and Arracan, but with regard to the latter locality, it may be mentioned
that he recognised only one species, N. tardigradus,2 to which, however
he referred three varieties distinguished by the colour of the fur and the number
of the incisors. His variety A was this species ; his variety B the darker-coloured
and more rufous Malayan form without well-defined markings on the head and
with four upper incisors, which he received from Malacca; and C, the Java
variety, with only two upper incisors and with four well-defined broad head-bands of
dark brown.
The varieties A and B are not unfrequently offered for sale in Calcutta, but the
latter, is rare in Eastern Bengal, the explanation of its occasional presence in
the Calcutta mart being that it is brought thither in the course of trade between
Calcutta and the ports of Arracan, Burma, the Malayan peninsula, and Singapore.
The light-coloured form A, on the other hand, is from Assam, and consequently is
1 Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, vol. xvi. 1847, p. 735.
9 L. c. et Cat. Mamm. As, Soc. Mus. Bengal, 1863, p. 18.