I'TKKorUS KMBALLONURA. 



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Ixttli (yinpiinic 1)()ih>s and posterioi' luilf of right zyj^oiua missinj^'; 

 rioht liiilf of nitiiulit)lo l>rok(Mi into two portions. Skin catalogued 

 July 3(\ 1S«)(); skull, February 2<>, 1900. 



Pteropus vociferus I'ealc. 



r. S. Kxpli)rin>» Expedition, VI H, Maimnalia and Ornitholoiiv, p. 19, 1,S4S. 

 8901. Skill. Adult male. Island of Mangsi, straits of Balabac. 

 Collected by V. S. Exploring Expedition (1838-18-1:2). Original 

 number 7. Catalogued May 81, 1860. 



Specimen once mounted and on exhibition, then packed away in storage, but 

 taken out March 31, 1902. It is in fair condition for an old specimen, evidently 

 bleached. It had no skull inside, nor is there any record of one. 



Peale speaks of but one specimen, a male, and un(iuestionabIy it is No. o9fil, 

 catalogued as PtcropuK mncklotil Temminck from ]\Iangsi. 



Family EMHALLOMURID.E. 



Genus EMBALLONURA. 



Emballonura anambensis Miller. 



Tioc. Wash. Acad. Sci., 11, p. 236, fig. 15, August 20, 1900. 

 lolTlC). Ill alcohol (skull removed). Adult female. Pulo Mobur, 

 Anainba Islands, South China Sea. August !>6, 1899. Collected by 

 Dr. \\. L. Abl)ott. Catalogued January 20, 1900. 

 .Vlcoholic in good condition; skull perfect. 



Emballonura peninsularis MiUcr. 



Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 189S, j.. 323, July 12, 1898. 

 S3575. In alcohol (skull removed). Adult male. Trong(or Tarang), 

 lower Siam. November, 1896. Collected b}- Dr. W. L. Al)bott. 

 Catalogued April 28, 18i^7. 



Posterior portion of the hrain-ca.se largely broken away; skull otherwise com- 

 plete; alcoholic in good condition. 



Vespertilio semicaudatus Peale. 



U. S. Exploring I'-xpedition, VIll, .Mamnialia and Ornitliology, p. 23, Is^s. 

 = Emballonura semicaudata (Peale). See Wagner, Suppl. Sclircher's Saiigcth., 

 V, p. 098, 18.5o. 



3727. Mummy, dried from alcohol. No skull. Sanioan Inlands. 

 Collected by the U. S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-42. Cata- 

 logued December 20, 1859. 



Skin with wings spreail and wing-nienihranes torn in jilaces. Skin of head 

 badly torn and mutilated, probably due to a clumsy extraction of the skull, 

 which has been lost. Right ear missing. 



There is very little doul)t that the above is the type. The de.scription is based 

 upon a single specimen collected by the U. S. Explormg Expedition from the 

 Samoan Islands. 



