22 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF [1890. 



The front and hack of the neck is of the same general character. 

 The contrast between the parts and the side of the neck less notice- 

 able than iu other species examined. 



Base of prebrachuivi black and distinctly differentiated from the 

 fur of the surrounding regions. 



The side of the trunk slightly more fulvous than the rest of the 

 chest and abdomen where the hair is of a uniform gray tint as the 

 head. The arm thickly covered with fur of the same character. 



With the exception of becoming more woolly the hair of the region 

 of anus, that below the anus and on the legs is of the same color. 



The back covered with appressed hair, but unusually long and 

 soft. 



That over the lower sacrum and legs precisely the same as that of 

 the body. 



There is a faint hem of hair on both surfaces of the free margin of 

 the endopatagium. 



Remarks: The confluence of the crown, whisker, face, and region 

 below the lower-jaw — in one color district ; the merging of the side 

 of the neck with the front and back ; the imperfect differentiation of 

 the color of the side of the trunk from that of the chest and abdomen ; 

 the exact resemblance between the front and back of the body and 

 legs, readily distinguishes this species from any examined. With 

 the reduction of the color-regions to three, namely, the head, neck, 

 and body, the retention of the black tuft of hair at the base of the 

 prebrachium is remarkable. 

 Pteropus melanopogon. 



Twenty-four specimens of the skin of this variable form were ex- 

 amined, four of these were identified as male and nine as female. 

 The remainder were undetermined, nine of this remainder were im- 

 mature. 



The specimens will be examined under these heads : — 



(1) Two individuals, male. Crown to a little beyond the eyes 

 unicolored black ; the rest of crown chestnut at tips — the shaft and 

 base being black. 



Nape of the neck unicolored red- yellow. 



" Whisker " unicolored, same color as nape. 



Face wnth tendencies to growth of reddish black hairs with black 

 base on the cheek, lower eyelid and malar bones and along the hor- 

 izontal ramus of the lower jaw. Between these localities the skin 

 is nearly naked. 



