IIACKOGLOSSUS MINIMUS MINIMUS. 759 



Ptei'opus rostratus, Horsfield, Zoul. lies. Java, fasc. 3, p. — , pi. — 



(lUiimal ; head) (1821: Java; habit.s); Desinarest, Mamm. ii. 



p. o;3o, 11. 8-I-2 (1822) ; Schinz, Thierr. iv. p. 289 (1825) ; Gray, 



(iriJitJis An. Kingd. v. p. 5(j, n. 159 (1827); [AnonyjnousX 



Si/n. Cont. B. M., 2(i ed. p. 34 (1832: Java). 

 Miicroglossus rostratus, Sckinz, Naturg. ^- Abb. Siiug. i. p. 71, pi. li. 



fiy:. 2 (animal : copy ironi F. Cuvier) (1824) ; id., op. c. 2 ed. p. 82, 



pi. xix. lig. 2 (animal: ut supra) (1827). 

 Macroglossus Idodotes, Lesson, Man. Mamm. p. 115, n. 300* (1827 



now name of Fteropus minivms, E. Geoft'., 1810) ; id., N. Tab/ 



JR. An., 3Iamm. p. 15, n. 203 (1842). 

 Macroglossus horslieldi, Lesson, Man. Mamm. p. 115, n. 301 * 



(1827 : new name of Pteropns rostratus, Horsf., 1821). 

 Macroglossus cuvieri, Burnett, Q. J. Sci. Lit. Art, Apr.-Jane, 1829, 



p. 269 (noni. nud.). 



Diar/nosis. — Smaller, with shorter rostrum. For details see 

 pp. 756-757. 



Measurements. Ou pp. 768-770. 



Specimens examined. Forty (eight in the Lej-den Museum); 

 localities as enumerated in the list of specimens in collection, 

 p. 760, 



Range. Java (incl. Madura) and Kangean Islands. May be 

 found to extend westward to tSumatra and the Malay Peninsula, 

 in 10 the area of M. m. sobrinus, though of this there is no evidence 

 in the material examined. A " M. minimus,'' possibly this form, 

 has been recorded from Timor (Temmiuck, I. c). 



Cotypes. — The species was based on two specimens obtained in 

 Java by Leschcnault do la Tour, both of which appear to have 

 perished. The subspecies cannot be determined from GeoflVoy's 

 description (" grandeur 9 centimetres, envergure 27 "), and no 

 iigures of the types have been published (F. Cuvier's coloured 

 figure is stated to have been drawn from a specimen from Bengal 

 [sic], and is grossly inaccurate in various points of importance, 

 c. a. in the proportions of the metacarpals and phalanges as com- 

 pared with the length of the forearm ; the skull figured by Blain- 

 ville is that of a well-pronotmced M. m. sohrhius, from Sumatra). 

 In the circumstances it is expedient to fix the name minimus on 

 the smaller form of the species, which also is the predominant race 

 in Java, — " Pt. mininnis" was renamed Macroglossus l-iodotes bj' 

 Lesson, 1827. Burnett's 31. cuvieri (1829), though technically a 

 nomeii nudum, was evidently intended as a new name of the same 

 species. 



Plerojnis rostratus, Horsfield. — Described from three adult speci- 

 mens, two males and one female, obtained in Java by Horsfield, 

 and once in the India Museum, London (probably specimens A, 

 B, C in Horsfield's Catalogue of 1851, p. 29). One of the cotypes 



is now in the British Museum (skull, total length , rostrum 'S-8, 



mandible from condyle 20-5, c-m^, crowns 8*8, forearm about 4,3, 

 third metacarpal 30'5 mm.), the fate of the two other cotypes is 



♦ Generic luuiic misspelt Macroglosaa, 



