8 THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY 



2. — Pteropus funereus, Temm. 

 The Red-naped Kalong. 



The males, as in this sex in the preceding species, have the 

 hair on the nape stiff and unctuous ; the females have not this 

 peculiarity, and the nape band instead of being stiff, compressed, 

 and of a greasy feeling, is soft and rather spreading ; it varies 

 from deep yellowish red to very deep blackish tan-red. 



Average size 14 inches. This species was observed in count- 

 less numbers towards dusk, flying from the mainland to islands 

 in the Straits, and in the early part of the morning, at break of 

 day, they returned on their way to the scrubs. During the month 

 of August, many of the females shot had young of consider- 

 able size attached to the breasts.* 



Localities : Cape York and Bet Island. 



3. — Pteropus (Epomops ?) epularius, sp. n. 



Adult Male. — To all intents this species is a true Pteropus, 

 differing only in having two large unctuous, brush-like tufts of 

 stiff hair on the side of the chest, just above the junction of the wing 

 membrane with the body. Total length, 13*5 inches; forearm, 5 

 inches ; index finger, 1*86 inches ; legs, from knee joint, 3 inches; 

 thumb, first joint small, hidden in the membrane, 0*5 inch ; last 

 joint long, slender, free, 1*4 inches ; its claw 0*7 inch, round the 

 curve 0*85 inch ; femur 3 inches, legbones 3*2 inches ; ears long, 

 pointed, length 1 inch, breadth 065 inch ; skull 26 inch, from 

 nose to eye 0*8 inch, to the base of the ear l'l inch ; breadth 

 across zygomatic arch, 1*3 inches; orbits incomplete^ round; in- 

 ternal diameter, 0*5 inch ; arch behind the orbit very convex, length 

 0*7 inch, greatest width 0*1 5 inch, from anterior margin of the orbit 

 1*2 inches ; the skull is almost flat between the orbits, and in width 

 at this part 0*3 inch ; between the intraorbital foramena, 0*3 inch; 

 the brain case rather elongate, without any ridge, swollen, rounded 

 posteriorly; greatest width, 0'95 inch ; length, about 1'3 inches 

 (base cut away) ; length from the incisor teeth to base of the skull, 



*From Mr. G. Master's notes. 



t In all four specimens examined the orbits arc incomplete, although the animals are 

 apparentlj' fully adult, the space is - 15 inch wide, the diameter of the orbit being- - 5 inch. 



