626 CYNOPTERTJS BRAC0TOTI.S BEACH YSOJIA. 



Measurements. On pp. 635, 638, 641. 



Specimens examined. Five paratypes (alcoholic, skulls extracted), 

 U.S. National Museum, U1243, '44, '47, "50, '58. 



lianije. The island of Nias, off W. Sumatra. The only other 

 species' of Cpiopterus known from the same island are the much 

 larger C. major (a local representative of C. hrachi/otis angiilatits ; 

 forearm 75-5-82 mm.) and C. princeps (a representative of the 

 " Aiadius" section ; forearm 84-0-89-5 mm.). 



Ti/pe, in the U.S. National Museum, skin and skull of an adult 

 male (Reg. no. 141240). 



2ff. Cynopterus brachyotis brachysoma, Bohs. 

 Cijnopterus hrachysoma, Dohson, Cat. Chir. B. M. p. 85. 



Cynopterus marginatus (pt., nee E. Geoff.), Blyth, Mount's Andnm. 



7s. p. 354 (18G3: Andamans) ; J. Anderson, Cat. Mnmm. I/id. 



Mus. i. p. 104, no3. 97 w-dd (18S1 : cotjpes of C. andcimnvensis). 

 Cynopterus brachysoma, Dohson, Froc. A. *S'. £. 1871, p. 10-5 (read 



3 May. 1871: preliminary descr.) ; id., J. A. S. B. xl. p. 260 



(read 26 June, 1871 : full descr., Andaman Is.) ; id., J. A. S. B. 

 ■' ' slii. p. 201, pi. A-iv. fig. 7 (ear) (1873) ; id.. Cat. Chir. Ltd. Mus. 



p. 4, n. 75 (1874 : type) ; id., Mon. As. Chir. p. 27, tig. (ear), 



p. lUO, u. 75 (1876 : type, S. Andaman 1.) ; id.. Cat. Chir. B. M. 



p. 8o (1878: type); TroKessort, Rev. (S* Ma;/. Zool. (.'3) vi. 



p. 207, n. 324 (1879) ; /. Anderson, Cat. Mumm. Ltd. Mux. 



i. p. 106 (1881 : type) ; Robin, Arm. Sci. Nat. (6), Z<>o/. xiii. 



Art. 2, pi. xii. tig. 1 (interfemoral) (1882) ; Theobald, Mason's 



Burma, i. p. 425 (1882) ; Blanford, Faun. B. hid., Mamm. 



pt. ii. p. 204 (1891); Trouessart, Cat. Mamm. i. p. 86, n. 458 



(1897) ; Miller, Froc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxiv. p. 787 (1902). 

 Cvuopterus sphia.x 6. brachysoma, ilf«<«c/i/e, Me(/achir. p. 75 (1899). 



' Q. brachysoma, Trouessart, Cat. Mamm., Siippl. p. 61 (1904). 

 Cynopterus marginatus i-ar. andamanensis, JJobso?i, Froc. A. S. B. 



J 873, p. 148 (preliminary note, read 2 July, 1873: nom. nud.) ; 



id., J. A. S. B. xlii. p. 201, pi. xiv. tig. 5 (ear) (description, read 



5 July, 1873: Andamans). 

 Cynopterus andamanensis, Dobson, Cat. Chir. Ind. Mus. p. 4, 



uos. 06-74 (1874: Andamans). 

 Cynopterus sphinx 5. andamanensis, Matschie, Mer/achir. p. 75 (1 899). 



d. andamanensis, Trouessart, Cat. Mamm., Suppl. p. 61 (1904). 

 Cynopterus marginatus suhsp. brachyotus (wfc brachyotis, S. Mailer), 



Dobson, Mon. As. Chir. p. 26, tig. (ear) (187(;). 

 Cynopterus brachyotus, Dobsm^, Mon. As. Chir. p. 26 (pt.) c. fig. 



(ear: copy from J. A.S. B. xhi. pi. .\iv. fig. 5), p. 190, nos. 66-74 



(1876: Andamans); Theobald, Masmis Burma, i. p. 425 (1882) ; 



Blanford, Faun. B. Ind., Mamm. pt. ii. p. 2(34 (pt.), fig. 77 11 



on p. 263 (ear) (1891). bimchyotis, Miller, Froc. U.S. Nat. Mas. 



xxiv. p. 787 (1902). 



Differential characters. — In general size similar to C. h. brachi/otis, 

 but cranial rostrum averaging relatively longer and slenderer (length 

 subequal to one-fourth of total length of skull) and ears smaller. 

 See table, p. 025. 



The present form accords witli C. h. ceylonensis (p. 624) in the 

 relative length of the rostrum, but difl'crs by its smaller ears, In 

 the latter character it is similar to C. h. miniitus (p. 625), but the 

 rostrum is relatively longer and slenderer and, as shown in the 



