16 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF [1890. 



The side of the neck with long, coarse, unicolored, reddiish hair, tlie 

 longest of any in the body excepting that of the side of the trunk. 



The front and back of the neck like the side, but the hair is less red 

 and shorter. The hair is blackish at the basal third or fourth. 



2'he side of the trunk about the mamma, with long silky, black uni- 

 colored hair. This tract is continuous with that of the outer side of 

 the leg and wing membranes where it becomes shorter and thinner. 

 The abdomen andihe base of the prebrachliim almost entirely black 

 but with glistening yellowish tips which partially conceal the black 

 color of the shafts. The hair is less silky than at the sides. The base 

 of the prebrachium is of a brighter yellow than is the abdomen. 



Beloiv the anus and on the inner side of the leg the hair is woolly, 

 black with grizzly tips. 



The back is black, hairs short, appressed, becoming longer woolly 

 and grizzly at the sacrum and on the legs. 



The margin of the endopatagium with a faint line of short black 

 hairs. 



Pteropus vulgaris. 



(1) An adult. 



Croivn and nape, and tract, in front of the auricle, dark chestnut- 

 brown. The crown-patch advances beyond the eyes. No separate 

 clump at the base of the auricle. 



Cir^cumpalpebral j)atch is of the same color as the crown and nape. 

 The crown is unicolored ; the nape is bi-colored, the basal fifth be- 

 ing black. 



Face uniformly covered with short, brown hair without distinct 

 cheek-patch. 



Labial hairs brown, w^ell developed. 



Post mental j)atch, black, distinct, and continuous with the hair of 

 the front of the neck. 



Side of the neck with very long silky, black hair. 



Front and back of the neck with hair of the same character but 

 shorter ; that of the front is shorter than that of the back. 



The side of the trunk also with exceedingly long black, silky uni- 

 colored hair. Some of the hairs are lightly tipped with gray. 



The front of the trtuik with short, black, unicolored hair. 



Base of prebrachium black, as in the neck. 



Arm, forearm and wing-membrane brown. 



Beloiv the anus the hair is also brown ; it is woolly in texture. 



