"Mw K. Andersen on a new Pteropus. 469 



Sluill : condylo-incisive lengtli^8"5 ; condylo-bapal leno;tli 

 27"7; mastoid bicadtlil2 '5 ; Icnf^tli of upper toot h-.seiies 12'7; 

 breadth between outer corners of ni^ 8'5. 



Ilab. Middle Andaman Island. Ty[)e from the northern 

 end. 



Ti/pe. Adult male. B.M. no. 13. 3. 13. 1. Collected and 

 presented by C G. Rogers, Esq. 



This strikinf^ species is almost or quite unique amonor large 

 shrews by its tail being longer than its head and body and 

 by the semi-spinous cbaracter of its fur, these being the main 

 reasons for distinguishing it from C. nicobarica and anda- 

 wja?/e«5zs. Miller *, with which alone among Eastern Croci- 

 durce it agrees in its comparatively large size. 



In the partially spinous nature of its pelage G. hisju'da is 

 unique in the family, although there is a slight stiffening and 

 thickening of the hairs in many of the larger species of 

 Crocidura and Pachyura. 



P.S. — Since the above was written, Mr. Miller has been 

 good enough to send me samples of the fur of his G. m'coharica 

 and andamanensis for comparison with that of G. Jiispida. 

 In C. andamanensis the hairs are slightly flattened, but not 

 broadened ; in C. nicobarica they are flattened, broadened, 

 and thickened at the edges, somewhat as in C. hispida, but 

 very much less so, the difference in structure representing 

 the difference between merely "crisp" and what might be 

 called " semi-spinous " fur. 



LIT. — A new Pferopus/Vowi the Polynesian Suhregion. 

 By Knud Andeksen. 



Pteropus eotiniis, sp. n. 



Diagnosis. — Similar to Pt. anetianus (known from Anei- 

 teum only, at the southern extremity of the New Hebrides 

 group), but with conspicuously larger skull, heavier dentition, 

 longer wings, much shorter fur, and different coloration. 

 Hab. Aurora Island (Maiwo), one of the northern New 

 Hebrides. 



* rroc. U.S. Xat. Mas. xxiv. pp. 776-7 (1902). 



