PTERorrs LivixGsroxEi. 94.7 



Menswements. On pp. 248, 241). 



Specimens examined. Sixteen, in tlie ccllcctions of the EerJin 

 (three), Leyden (twelve), and liritisli Museums, including the type 

 of the species. 



Hetnge. Key Islands : Great Key, Key Doulan, Little Key, Koor. 



Tyjjfi in the Berlin Museum. 



Fteropus melnnopogon var. Jcetfeusis, Peters ; 1867. — Ty])e locality, 

 Grand Kej'. Type, d' ad., mounted, skull extracted, collected by 

 Rosenberg, acquired from the Leyden Museum ; llcg. no. 4752. 



Fteropus chri/sargi/rus, Heude ; 189G. — Type locality, Little Key. 

 Cotype-s (at least two) presumably in the Zi-ka-wei Museum, 

 Shanghai. The description of colour and size, and figure of teeth 

 agree perfectly with Pt. l-ei/eDsis. 



liemarls. — This species is the Key Island representative of the 

 Ft. melanopor/on type. It accords with Ft. mclanojjogon and ciruemns 

 in the characters of the skull (apart from some shortening of the 

 rostrum) and teeth, the number and arrangement of the palate- 

 ridges, and the size and shape of the ears. It accords with Ft. aru- 

 cnsis and diifers from Ft. melanopoi/on in the less closely approxi- 

 mated wing-membranes and broader furred area of the back. And 

 it differs from both of the related species in the highly peculiar pale 

 yellowish colour of the fur. 



rt. (5 ad. al. ; Kev Doiilan, Key Is. Lords of the Treasury [r.l. 82 7.27 3. 

 .skull. (H.M. . • Challenger '). 



41. Pteropus livingstonei, Crrai/. 

 Fteropus llvivgstonii, Dobson, Cat. Chir. ]>. M. p. 55. 



Pteropus livlngstouii, Grny, P. Z. S. 186G, p. G6 (Johanna I.) ; 



id., Cat. Monk. Sfc. p. 109 (1870: Johanna); I)obso?i, I. s. r. 



pi. iii. fig. 6 (ear) (1878 : Johanna) ; Trunessart, Pev. Sf Maej. Zool. 



(3) vi. p. 202 (1879 : Johanna) ; Bobson, Pep. Prif. Assoc. 187», 



p. 162 (1879 : remarks on distribution); Jentink,Cat. Si/sf. Mamm. 



p. 147 (1888: Johanna): Mibie-Edivarch ^- Oustal'et, N. Arch. 



Mus. d'Hist. Xat. Paris, (;2 ) x. p. 224 (1888 : Johanna) ; Tnmessart, 



Cat. Mamm. i. p. 81 (1897: Johanna); Matschie, Miu/arhir. 



pi. iv. figs. 9, 10 (skull) (1899: Johanna); Miller, Fam.\ Gen. 



Pats, p. 08 (1907). 

 Pteropus (Spectrum) livingstouii, Matschie, Mcc/achir. p. 30(1899: 



Johanna) ; Trouessart, Cat. Mamm., Suppl. p. 54 (1904 : 



Johanna). 

 Pteropus edwardsi (pt., 7icc E. Geoff.), Peters, MP. Ahnd. Perlin, 



1867, p. 325. 



Diagnosis. — Allied to Ft. melanopogon, but cars semicircularly 

 rounded off above, fur much longer, furred area of back of normal 

 breadth, size smaller. Blackish above and beneath, with rump and 

 sides of belly sprinkled with bright-coloured hairs, and with or 

 without a tuft of tawny hairs on each shoulder. Forearm 162 - 

 172 mm. Hab. Johanna I., Comoros. 



akuU and teeth.— Skull very similar iu general shape to that of 



