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EOrSETTUS AMPLKXICAUDATUS 



Range. Carabodja, Piiiliiipiues, Borneo, Sumatra, Engano, Flores, 

 Savu, Alor. Timor. 



Tjipe in the Paris Museum. 



Fterojms am/>Je.cicaiulatn.s, Geoff. ; 1810. — Based bj- Geoffroy on 

 "plusieursindividus" obtained in Timor during Peron and Lesueur's 

 voyage (Capt. Baudin) ; only one of these appears now tc be in the 

 Paris Museum, a young individual, mounted, much faded, skull 

 extracted, labelled " Timor, Exp. Baudin" ; lieg. no. A. 79. 



ELeutlierura infumata, Graj' ; 1870. — Type locality : Flores 

 (A. 11. Wallace) ; type in collection. — The name would seem to 

 indicate that Gray separated the Flores specimen on account of its 

 " blackish browu "' colour ; it ditfei's, however, neither in this nor in 

 other respects from a majority of examples oi R. amphxicaudatus. 



Eleulherura pJiilippinensis, Gray; 1870. — Type locality: Manila 

 (Hugh Cuming); type in collection. — Gray gives a brief description 

 of tbe colour of the specimen, without pointing out his reasons for 

 separating it from Pleropus amplexicaudatus, Geoff. The type, 

 as well as more recently acquired specimens from the Philippines, 

 differ m no respect from R. amplexicaudatus. 



Ci/7ioni/cteris hocar/ei, Seabra ; ISUS. — Type locality : Dyli, Timor 

 (Fr. Newton); type in the Lisbon Museum. ^ — Separated by Seabra 

 from R. ahip>lexicaudatus on account of the supposed greater 

 zygomatic width of the skull (and a trivial difference in the form 

 and position of the sixth and eighth palate-ridges). Zygomatic 

 width of the type skull {S ) not given ; in the figure {I. s. c. pi. i. 

 fig. 11) it measures scarcely 23 mm. ; in a British Museum 

 specimen ( c? ) from Alor I., north of Timor, 24 ram., in another 

 ( $ ) from the same island 21*2 : similar variations are found in 

 R. amplexkaudatus and allied species from an)' locality. 



Remarlcs. — R. amplexlcaudaius is readily distinguished from 

 R. lescJienaulti by its much narrower ears and the difi'erent shape 

 of nig. ill. hschenaidti is continental in range, R. amplexicnudatus 

 chiefiy Indo-Malayan (insular) ; their areas probably touch each 

 other somewhere in S.E. Asia ; R. leschcnaidti is represented in the 

 collection from Burma and Siam, R. ample.clcaudatas from Cam- 

 bodja. — Some authors (Peters, Anderson and de Winton) have laid 

 stress on the greater length of the tail in Indo-Malayan specimens 

 {amplexicaudaius) as compared with examples from tlie Himalayas 

 and the Indian Peninsula (lescJienaulti) ; the tail averages, in fact, 

 decidedly louger in wmplexicaudcitus, but the character, as being 

 subject to a good deal of individual variation, is practically not of 

 much use for a discrimination of the two species. 



a. Ad. sk. ; skull. Cambodja (iVou- Tomes Coll. 7.1.1.263. 



hot Coll.). 



b. 2 imiii. al.; Philippines. Zool. Soc. Coll. Not reg. 



skull. 



c. S ad. sk. ; Manila. Luzon. Hugh Cuming, Esq. 58.3.29.1. 



.skull. [C.]. 



(Type oi Elci'.lherura philip2>ineHsu, Gray.) 



