NO. 1209. ANDAAfAN AND NICOBAR MASLMALS— MILLER. 787 
related form, inhabits the Andamans. Whether this animal is true 
PtiVopus vampyrus or not I am unable to say, as Dr. Abbott obtained 
no specimens. The fact that Zelebor distinguished it under the name 
Pachysoma giganteuhi points strongly to the distinctness of the spe- 
cies. That Pachysoma giganteum is not Pteropus faunulus is shown 
by Zelebor's diagnosis, G^da malis unaculaque inter' frontem et ociilos 
hrunneo-n Igris^ genis, nucha et dorso superim'e dare flavescente-castaneis^ 
dorso relupu)^ pectore et ahdondne hrimneo-nigris, pills nonmdlis alhido 
vel palllde cmereo terminatis, and by the fact that it was referred as a 
variet}^ to the ver}^ large Pteropus edulis {=^va)npy7'us). Three flying- 
foxes, therefore, have been taken on Car Nicobar, the large Pteropus 
vampyrus^tYie, medium-sized P, ?iicobaricus, and the small P. faunulus. 
Genus CYNOPTERUS F. Cuvier. 
CYNOPTERUS BRACHYSOMA Dobson. 
1871. Cynopkrus brachysoma Dobson, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, XL, Pt. 2, p. 260. 
(South Andaman Island.) 
The thick-bodied fruitbat is at present known from the tj'^pe speci- 
men onl^-, an adult female obtained by Dr. Stoliczka on South Anda- 
man Island^ in 1871. This, howev^er, is probably the species referred 
to by Bh^th in the appendix to Mouat's Adventures and Researches 
among the Andaman Islanders^ under Oynopterus raarginatus. He 
says: 
The Cynoplerus is the only species of bat as yet received from the Andamans; 
but Colonel Tytler writes word that "there is a great abundance of small bats on the 
island [South Andaman], and I am surprised that you have not received any." 
CYNOPTERUS BRACHYOTIS Miiller. 
1873. Cynoplerus inargiiialiis var. undamanensis Dobson, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Ben- 
gal, XLII, Pt. 2, p. 201, Septembers, 1873. (Andaman Islands.) 
1876. Cynoplerus brachyotus Dobson, Monagr. Asiat. Chiropt., p. 26. 
It is very probable that the specific name andanianensis will eventu- 
ally stand for this species, as the Oynopterus brachyotis of MitUer was 
originally described from Borneo. Beyond the fact that Dobson's 
type specimen was procured among the Andaman Islands nothing is 
known of the status of this bat as a member of the fauna under con- 
sideration. 
'See Blanford, Fauna of British India, I, p. 265, 1891. ''P. 354, 1863. 
