1873.] G. E. DohBOYi—On the FteropidcB of India. 201 



ately long thinly spread hairs, and the wing-membrane is clothed to about 

 the same extent as on the upper surface, the hairs also passing outwards in 

 a narrow band posterior to the forearm. The colour of the fur is extremely 

 variable, dark brovvn, reddish-brown, snuif-brown or olive-brown, sometimes 

 with a bluish tinge throughout. 



The first upper premolar is minute, and in the centre of the space be- 

 tween the canine and second premolar ; the second premolar is about equal 

 to the lower canine in vertical extent. 



CrifOPTEErs MAEarsTATrs, var. andamai^insis. PI. XIV, Fig. 5. 



This is, I believe, a permanent variety of C. marginatus. It is readily 

 distinguished by the small size of the ears which are similarly margined with 

 white. The relative size is very well shown in the accompanying illustra- 

 tion. 



Specimens of young individuals of C. marginatus from Bengal with fore- 

 arm bones nearly half an inch shorter than specimens of adult animals of 

 this variety from the Andamans have considerably larger ears. 



Ct]s-opteeus sheezeei. pi. XIV, Fig. 6. 



Pacliysoma sherzeri, Fitzinger, Sitzungs. Wien. Akad., 1860, p. 389, (nom. nudum). 

 Cynopterus marginatus f var. Pacliysoma Sherzeri, Zelebor, Reise der Oester. Freg. 

 * Novara,' SangetMere, p. 11, 1868. 



This species, like Pteropus nicoharicus, was named but not described by 

 Fitzinger, and Zelebor regards it as a variety only of C. marginatus. It is 

 at once distinguished from that species by its small and narrow ears which 

 are also not margined with white. When adult specimens of C. marginatus 

 and of this species are compared together, the difference in the size and shape 

 of the ears is very striking. 



The muzzle is thicker, and the colour of the fur much darker than in 

 any specimen of C. marginatus. 



Zelebor mentions that the ears of the specimens obtained at Car-Nico- 

 bar are margined with white, but I have been unable to detect even the 

 slightest trace of a white border in the ears of several specimens exa- 

 mined by me. Therefore, either Zelebor has been mistaken, or the white 

 bordering of the ears is not a constant character in this species, or I have 

 wrongly identified the species here described with C. slierzeri. But al- 

 though it is quite impossible to identify the species here described with that 

 obtained during the Novara Expedition at Car-Nicobar Island from Zele- 

 bor's description (whicli consists merely of some unimportant remarks on 

 the colours of the fur, wing-membrane, and eyes), yet as the animals which 

 furnished the above description were taken not only at the same island — 

 Car-Nicobar — but also from the same place on that island, namely, from 

 the leaves of the cocoa-nut palms, I think it highly pi-obable that they 

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