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Ramie. Andamau Islands: Kuthuid Island, iSouth Audaman, 

 Little Jolly ]3oy. 



l\ipe presumably in private possession. 



Ilistovy of technical name. — Originally a manuscript name written 

 by Blyth on the labels of three skins, obtained in South Andaman 

 Island by Lieut.-Col. Tytlcr and ])reseuted by him, in 1864, to the 

 Calcutta Museum (specimens 22, 23, and 24 in Dobson's Mon. 

 Asiat. Cbir. p. 18<S ; specimens d, e, and / in J. Anderson's Cat. 

 Mamm. Ind. Mus. i. p. 102, specimen/ wrongly stated to be from 

 S. Nicobars instead of S. Andamans). The name remained un- 

 published until printed, without description, by Dobson in 1874 

 and 1876 (7. s. c). The type of Mason's Ft. t)^tleri (1908, I. s. c.) 

 is stated to be an adult male, skin and skull, Rutland I., collected 

 by B. E. Osmaston, March 5, 1907. Mason failed to point out 

 the real differential characters of the species as compared with 

 Pt. melanotus. His statement that the two sexes differ in colour 

 to such extent that they '• might readily be mistaken at first sight 

 for distinct species " is erroneous. 



«, A. $ad., cC Ancla)nans(ir. Z>af/sow). A. O. Himie, Esq. [P.]. 8.5.8.1.98. 

 juv. sk8.; 8.5.8.1.101). 



skulls. 

 c. Iinm. sk. ; Koss I., Port Bliiir, S. R. G. Wardlaw Eaiii- 73.10.10.1. 

 skull. Andaiiuin. say [C.]. 



35. Pteropus niadiciis, MiUev. 



? Pteropus edulis {nee E. Geoff.), Nieuwenhuisen <^ lionenberff, J'erh. 



Batav. GenooUch. Kunst 4" Wet. xxx. p. 19 (1868 : Nias). 

 ? Pteropus [sp.], Rosenberg, Malay. Arch. p. 219 (1878 : Nias). 

 Pteropus nieobaricus {nee Zelehor),Jentink, Cat. iSyst. Mamm. p. 147 



(pt.) (1888 : Nias) ; Modigliani, Ann. Mm. Civ. Geneva, (2) vii. 



p. 239 (1889: Nias); Trouessart, Cat. Mamm. i. p. 81 (pt.) 



(1897: Nias); Matschie, Megachir. p. 16 (pt.) (1899: Nias); 



Troues-fart, Cat. Mamm., Siippl. p. 50 (pt.) (1904 : Nias); Willink, 



Nat. rijd. Nederl. hid. Ixv. p. :375 (1905 : Nias). 

 Pteropus niadicus, Miller , Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. xix. p. C4 (1 May, 



1906: Nias). 



DUujnosis. — Similar to Pt. melanotus, but dentition rather heavier, 

 back more or less aitproaching hair-brown, Hanks and sides of 

 breast and belly pale greyi.sh-drab sprinkled with blackish. Fore- 

 arm 153-160 mm. Bab. Nias. 



Skull and teeth. — Skull not differing appreciably from that of 

 Pt. melanotus. Teeth decidedly heavier (see measurements p. 231), 

 but not differing in structure. 



Colour. — Three adult males, teeth much worn, skins (B. M. 

 88.12.1.4; U.S. Nat. Mus. 141231, '32, paratypes) :— Back and 

 rump seal-brown, thickly mixed with greyish-white, mouse-greyish, 

 or buffy-greyish hairs, producing the general effect of a shade more 

 or le.ss approaching hair-brown. The amount of greyish admixture, 

 though, so far as the material goes, always conspicuous, is subject 

 to no small variation ; one sjiecimcu (141232) has the spinal tract 



