HOHsONIA CUKXUr.ATA. 4~'.i 



simiiar colours wliicli sufigesled to Heude the name " viridis" ; 

 there is, in fact, in all the golden and tawnj'-olivc tinges an indeliuite 

 hue of greenish. 



Four other skins from Coram (two yg. ad. d , one $ ad., one 

 ad., 7 .1 A .258-2GI) aie of the usual somhre Dobsonia colour: 

 l}ack of neck varjing from dark raw-umber to bistre or bi'ownish 

 bistre; head shiny blackish bistre; underpaits drab or drab- 

 brown, thickly mixed with raw-umber on breast and belly. 



Measxirements. On pp. 478, 480, 482. 



Sjyecimens exanihied. Fifteen, in the collections of the Leyden 

 (seven), Berlin (two), and British Museums, from the following 

 localities: — Amboiua (four, skulls of three), Coram (five, with 

 skulls), Banda Is. (two), and Key Is. (four, skulls of three). 



Hanc/e. Amboina grouji (known from Amboina and Coram) ; 

 Banda Islands ; Key Islands. 



Cotiii>es presumably in the Zi-ka-wei Museum, near Shanghai. 

 Species based on " un bon nombre de sujets pris dans les grottes 

 inadreporiques des lies de Key. Je I'ai iiommee pour nom [mou] 

 visage C. viriJis, parceque c'est la couleur du ventre et de la partio 

 degagee du d(js. Un seul specimen et;ait brun.'" This is the whole 

 of the original description ; but Heude's figures of the tooth-rows, 

 though in several respects unsatisfactory, show clearly the structure 

 of m^ and m' characteristic of this section of the genus, in contra- 

 distinction to I). moJurcensis (which ma}' also occur in the Key Is., 

 since inhabiting both Amboina and the Aru Is.), so that there is no 

 doubt as to the identification of the species he had before him. 



Itenicirhs. — D. viridis is at once distinguished from all the 

 foregoing species by the dental and cranial characters summed up 

 in the diagnosis. It is represented by closely related forms in the 

 (iilolo group (D. crenulata), Bismarck Archipelago (D. j^tra'datrix), 

 and Solomon Islands (D. inennis and nesea). No species with 

 similar dental characters is known from New Guinea. 



a. 2 iiiiui. al. ; skull. Amboina (Voj. Sir £. Belcher [P.]. Not reg. 



" Siilpliur '). 

 /.. c? ud.sk.; skiill. C'erain. Ih: A. E. WalliKo Kl. 12.11.4. 



[C.]. 

 ^■-./"- 2 d yg. ad., 1 5 Ccram; 18.')9 (Z)/-. 'iumcs Cull. 7.1.1.2.38-2r;i. 



art., i ad. sks. ; A. li. Wallace). 



s^kn 



'J. Dobsonia crenulata, A'. And. 

 C'-ifhalole'S peroni (pt.), Dobson, Cat. Chir. B. if. }). D). 



Cephalotes pt-roni (pt., nee E. Geoff.), Finsch, Neu-Guined, p. 1.50 

 (18G.5: Gilolo; Ternate) ; Feters, MB. Akad. Feri'in, 18G7, 

 p. 871 (Tern.ile ; Batchian', ; Dobson, Cat. Chir. B. M. p. 91 

 (18/8: Ternate); Trouessarf., llev. i^- Ma,/. Zoo/. {?,) vi. p. 208, 

 II. 3:'>0 (1879); Jentink, Cat. Ost. Mamm. p. 267 (pt.) (1887: 

 1-iuu ; Morotai ; Jiatchian) ; id., Cat. Si/ft. Mamm. p. 15tj (pt.) 

 (1888: Kau; Morotai; Batchian) ; Trouesmrt, Cat. Mamm. i. 

 p. 87, n. 470 (1897). 



Pob.^onia perori (pt.), Trouemtrl, Cat. Mamm. ii. p. 1278 (1809). 



