2 ZOOLOGY OF RODRIGUEZ. 



dark für passing backwards from tbe chin along the thorax to the alodomen, wMcli 

 is clothed with dark brown für, of wbich some bairs have greyisb or sbiniug 

 extremities ; für of tbe back bebind tbe slioulders dark brown, tbe extremities of 

 tbe bairs more or less yellowisb. In tbe male tbe extremities of tbe bairs on tbe 

 bead and back are miicb brigbter coloured tban in tbe female. 



Eirst Upper premolar deciduous ; tbe second upper premolar and the second and 

 third lower, also tbe first and second upper molars and tbe first lower, bave eacb a 

 smaU but distinct posterior basal cusp ; even tbe small first lower premolar bas an 

 indication of a posterior basal cusp ; last upper molar very small and circular, not 

 as large as the first lower premolar, last lower molar sligbtly larger tban tbe first 

 lower premolar. 



Length (of an adult c? preserved in alcobol) : bead andbody 7" ; bead 2"-2 ; ear 

 0"-9 ; ear from tip of nostril 2" ; eye from tip of nostril, 0"-8 ; forearm 4"-9 ; 

 tbumb-metacarp, 0"-35 ; pb. and claw, l"-6 ; third finger-metacarp, 3"-3; 1" pb. 

 2"-4!, 2"*pb. 3"-55; fom-tb finger-metacarp, 3"-25; T' pb. 2", 2"" pb. l"-85 ; fifth 

 finger-metacarp, 3"-35, T' pb. l"-5, 2'"i pb. 1"'4.5 ; tibia, 2"-25 ; calcaneum, 0"-6 ; 

 foot, 1"-15. 



Tbis small species resembles Fteropus ruhrlcollis, GeoS'r., from tbe Island of 

 Mauritius, in size only. Tbe ears project by tbeir extremities beyond tbe für of 

 tbe bead, and tbeir margins are quite naked. In Pt. rubricollis tbey are covered 

 by long bairs and quite concealed by tbe für ; tbe für of tbe body is also quite 

 difl'erent in texture, being mucb coarser and not in tbe least d(^gree woolly, and the 

 lower third of the tibia is naked. 



