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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. speciosus. 

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

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

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



Nycttcejtjs (?) 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 palé tips, below much paler and a little albescent ; 

 membranes dark, with numerous trans verse stripes of minute hairs 

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

 exserted. Head and body about 2\ in. long, the tail \\ in. ; expanse 

 about 12 in. : length of fore-arm 2 in. ; longest fingerB^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 nob 

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



Scotophiltjs pumilotdes, R. F. Tomes, Ann. Mag. N. H., XX. 

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

 is correctly identified. 



Cants (familiaeis). Skull of a short-faced Dog, from Formosa, 

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



C. (eamiliakis). Skull of another short-faced t>og, of smaller 

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

 sessing no second true molar, ñor space for its insertion.f 



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

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

 M. eadiatus of the península of India, except in being a shade or two darker in 

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



t 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 ni y last, mct 

 witli little of interest except a ííoyal Tiger of large size in a Chinese village. I 

 attackcd him at cióse 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 nced 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 beforc in my rambles. I was out after specimens, and was 

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



