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" I have ascertained that the large Formosa Monkey is identical 

 with the Japanese one, and it will therefore stand as M. speciostts. 

 The small kind, which I am ahout to send you alive, is undoubtedly 

 distinct and probably new. The large are found on the coast, the 

 small in the forests of the interior of the island.* 



Nycticejus (?) Swinhoei, nobis, n. s. I can find no description 

 of a Bat at all applicable to this species ; and can discover in the 

 specimen no trace of upper incisors. It is rather a robustly formed 

 Bat, with the alar membrane continued to the base of the toes ; with 

 unusually short linguiform tragus, and short anti-helix. Fur mostly 

 straight and silky, even glossy above, but a little frizzled on the fore- 

 head and about the neck ; its surface-colour on the upper-parts an 

 umbre-brown with pale tips, below much paler and a little albescent; 

 membranes dark, with numerous transverse stripes of minute hairs 

 on the lower surface of the interfemoral ; the extreme tip of the tail 

 exserted. Head and body about 1\ in. long, the tail \\ in. ; expanse 

 about 12 in. : length of fore-arm 2 in. ; longest finger 2>\ in. ; tarse 

 \\ in. ; hind-foot with claws \ in. ; ears (posteriorly) about -f- in. in 

 the fresh specimen ; tragus barely f in. This with other species not 

 expressly stated to be from Formosa, I conclude are from Amoy. 



Scotophii/us pumiloides, R. F. Tomes, Ann. Mag. N. K., XX. 

 (1857), p. 228. After much consideration, I think this small species 

 is correctly identified. 



Canis (eamiliaris). Skull of a short-faced Dog, from Formosa, 

 minus the lower jaw and wanting several of the upper teeth. 



C. (familiakis). Skull of another short-faced Dog, of smaller 

 size, and similarly imperfect, from Amoy, — most remarkable for pos- 

 sessing no second true molar, nor space for its insertion.f 



* The living monkey lias arrived just as this sheet was going to press. It is a 

 half-grown female, and differs in no respect (that I can perceive) from the common 

 M. Eadiatus of the peninsula of India, except in being a shade or tvro darker iu 

 colouring, with a nigrescent wash on the face and ears. 



+ The Tiger is an occasional visitor in the island of Amoy. In a letter from 

 Mr. Swinhoe, dated Nov. 21st, 1859, he writes — " I have, since my last, met 

 with little of interest except a Royal Tiger of large size in a Chiuese village. I 

 attacked him at close quarters with a fowling-piece and made him bleed ; but to 

 avoid an awkward spring at me, I fell down a precipice and nearly killed myself. 

 No assistance being at hand and the Chinese not daring to come near the beast, 

 I need not tell you that I missed getting his skin. One was killed last year at 

 Amoy, and I once bought a cub out of three that a Chinese had for sale, but I 

 never met the brutes before in my rambles. I was out after specimens, and was 

 not of course provided with ball ; my stock being only shot and cartridges. 



