284 



I'TKROrUS SAMOKXSIS. 



by Rayner; 56.9.4,2), must be taken as the type of the species; 

 the other, from Ovcalau (llayner ; 58.12.27.4), was described by 

 Gray as a "variety" of Pt. nawaiensis {Cdt. Monk. &c. p. 107). Tho 

 two skull-measurements given by Gray are incorrect. By all 

 subsequent writers Pt. nawaiensis has been united with Pt. samoiinsis, 

 a species which it resembles rather closely in external characters, 

 but from which it differs remarkably in dentition. 



Pteropus vitiensis, Gray ; 1870. — Type locality, Ovalau, Fiji ; 

 type in collection. Indistinguishable from Pt. nawaiensis. A de- 

 scription of the colour of the fur is given above, p. 282. 



a. cJad.sk.; skull. Savu, VauuaLevii, R. Geographical 99.3.7.1. 



Fiji (H. J. Fetiu- Society [P.]. 

 cane), 



b, c. c? ad., 5 imm. Nuza Malo R., Viti Baron v. Hiigel 79.4.8.1,2. 



sks. ; skulls. Levu, Fiji; June, [P.]. 

 1875. 



d. r? ad. sk ; skull. Ovalau, Fiji ; Aug. Lords of the Ad- 58.12.27.3. 



1856 (l)r. F. M. miralty [P.]. 



Rayner). [Type of Ft. vitiensis, Gray.) 



e. cJ imni. sk. ; Ovalau; Aug. 1856 Lordsof the Ad- I 58.12.27.4. 



skull. (Br.F.M. Ray- miralty [P.]. 159.7.14.1. 



ner) . 



f. 5ad.sk.; skull. Nauai, Fiji ; Nov. Lordsof the Ad- 56.9.4.2. 



1855(I)r.F.M. miralty [P.]. 

 Rayner). (7y/;e of species.) 



53. Pteropus samoensis, Peah. 



Pteropus samoensis (pt.), Dobson, Cat. Chir. B. M. p. 35. 



Pteropus samoensis, Peak, U.S. F.rpl. Exp. viii. Mainm. p. 20, 

 text-fig. (skull) (1848 : Tutuila, Samoa Is. ; habits) ; Wagner, 



Schreber's Sang., Suppl. v. p. 601 (1853-55: Samoa); Cassin, 



U.S. F.vpl. Exp. viii. (sec. ed.) p. 7, text-lig. (skull), Atl. Mamm. 



pi. ii. (whole fig.) (1858: Samoa; habits); Peters, MB. Akad. 



Berlin, 18U7, p. 332 (18G7 : Samoa) ; Fitzinger, SB. Akad. Wien, 



Ix. Abth. i. p. 444 (1870: Samoa) ; Dobson, Cat.^ Chir. B. M. 



p. 35 (pt.) (1878 : Samoa) ; Leche, Lunds Univ. Arsskr. .\ii. p. 16 



& seq. (1878 : milk-teeth) ; Trouessarf, Rev. 4- Mag. Zool. (3) vi. 



p. 204 (pt.) (1879: Samoa); id., Ann. Sci. Nat. (6) Zool. viii. 



Art. 12, p. 16 (pt.) (1879 : remarks on distr.) ; Zuckerkandl, 



Riechcentrum, p. 29 ( 1887 : anatomy of brain) ; Jentink, Cat. 



Ost. Mamm. p. 253 (1887 : Samoa) ; id., Cat. Syst. Mamm. 



p. 140 (1888: Samoa); Trouessart, Cat. Mamm. i. p. 79 (pt.) 



(1897: Samoa); Mafschie, 3Iegachir. yii. Vn. fiss. la, lb, Ic, Id, 



le (skull ■ (1899 : Samoa) ; 3liller, Fam. ^ Gen. Bats, p. 58 (pt.) 



(1907). 

 Pteropus (Spectrum) samoensis (pt.), Matscliie, Megachir. p. 22 



(1899: Samoa); Trouessart, Cat. Mamm., Suppl. p. 61 (1904: 



Samoa). 

 Pteropus whitmoei, Alston, P. Z. S. 1874, p. 96, pi. xiv. (animal) 



(Samoa) ; Whitmee, P. Z. S. 1874, p. 666 (Samoa ; habits). 

 Pteropus fuscicollis, Nicoll, Zoologist, (4) viii. p. 413 (1904 : Tutuila ; 



Upolu) (nom. nud. ; ? misprint for nijicollis). 



