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[Vol. II, 



about to be described, of which the two sexes might readily be 

 mistaken at first sight for distinct species. 



Table 



OF 



MEASUREMENTS 



OF 



Pteropus 



melanotus. 









>^ 





















en 









o 















-(-j 



'Sd 



^• 



0) 



a 





 u 

 



u 

 0) 





•n 













'■S 



'So 

 '-S 



-S 



■& 



a 



a 



tM 

 





a 









rQ 



tS 



^ 



'-5 







c 









•t-t 





 





orea: 

 hum 







4J 



TJ 

 M 



3 



M 

 3 







^ 

 «« 



4: 



u 



l-l 









H 



^ 



Mm. 



PI. i H 



c« 



H 



fe 



S 



W 



W 



^ 





Mm. 



Mm. Mm. 



Mm. 



Mm. 



Mm. 



Mm. 



Mm. 



Mm. 



Mm. 



Mm. 



Mm. 



Blyth's type 



266 



65 



46 



13 



148 



65 



no 



278 



215 



189 



28 



23 



15 



(female). 











, 



















Male, Galatea 



273 



77 



52 



14 



163 



72 



116 



280 



225 



190 



30 



25 



18 



River, Gt. Nico- 





























bar. 





























Female, Galatea 



283 



78 



45 



16 



170 



75 



120 



293 



223 



202 



30 



23 



21 



River, Gt. Nico- 





























bar. 





























Pteropus tytleri, sp, nov. 



Pteropus tytleri, Blyth, in litt. 



1873. Pteropus nicoharicus , Dobson. Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 



xlii, pt. 2, p. 198 (partim). 

 1876. Pteropus nicoharicus, Dobson, Monogr. Asiat. Chiropt., p. 17 



1878. Pteropus nicoharicus, Dobson, Cat. Chiropt. B. M., p. 54 



{partim). 

 1891. Pteropus nicoharicus , Blanford, Faiina Brit. Ind. Mamm., p. 



260 {partim). 



Again, quoting from the appendix to Dr. Mouat's Adventures 

 and Researches among the Andaman Islands (1863), p. 353, attention 

 is directed by Blyth to the entire absence of any representative of 

 the genus Pteropus in the Andaman group, although the species, 

 Pteropus melanotus, as we have seen, is frequent on most of the 

 islands comprised in the adjacent Nicobar Archipelago, 



In the year 1864, however, Lieut .-Colonel R, C, T^^tler, the 

 Officiating Governor at the Port Blair Penal Settlement, who con- 

 tributed largely to our knowledge of the fauna of the Archipelago 

 during his term of residence, transmitted to the Museum of the 

 Asiatic Society the first authentic specimens of an Andamanese 

 Pteropus procured in the neighbourhood of the Settlement; and 

 Blyth, who examined the specimens, found he was unable to refer 

 them to any existing species of the genus, and accordingly adopted 

 the MS. and unpublished name of Pteropus tytleri, for the species. 

 The original labels, in Blyth's handwriting, are still attached to 

 the specimens. 



