106 OLDFIELD THOMAS 



The others premolars are in consequence crushed together and 

 twisted round obliquelj% and also those that appear to correspond 

 to p- and /}* are slightly broader and shorter than what I sup- 

 pose to be their fellows of the opposite side. 



2. Pteropus hypomelanus, Temm. 

 a. d". Pulo Dua, July 1891. 



h-c. 9 and young. Kifa-juc, May 1891. 

 d. imm. 9. Malaconni, ,Iune 1891. 



3. Pteropus modiglianii, sp. n. 



a-h, c^. Kifa-juc, May 1891; 9. Bua-Bua, June 1891. 



Of small medium size , black or blackish in both sexes. 



Fur crisp and woolly throughout; that of the neck decidedly 

 more so than that elsewhere ; that on the back scarcely adpressed. 

 Muzzle broad and flat, lips unusually full and distensible. Ears 

 of medium length, about equal to the muzzle; laid forward their 

 tip falls about 5 mm. short of the posterior canthus of the eye ; 

 their inner margin evenly convex; tip pointed but not acutely 

 so; upper third of outer margin flattened, remainder convex. 

 Insertion of wings on back at narrowest point about an inch 

 apart in male co-type, barely half an inch in female; breadth 

 of dorsal fur in same region about two inches in both. Inter- 

 femoral membrane narrow in the centre, partially concealed 

 by the fur. Tipper surface of humerus and forearm almost, and 

 the remainder of the upper surface of the wings wholly, naked. 

 Femur thickly haired above , but tibia quite naked , although , 

 just inward of the latter the proximal half of the interfemoral 

 membrane is well clothed half way to the ankles. Beneath, the 

 wing membrane is more fully haired, there being numerous 

 fine scattered hairs all over the antebrachial membrane , on that 

 between the humerus and femur, and on that outside, the proxi- 

 mal half of the forearm for the breadth of an inch ; on the other 

 hand the interfemoral is entirely naked below. 



Colour. Blackish brown tiiroughout, without any sharp colour 

 contrasts, but while the head and neck are absolutely black, the 

 body becomes gradually a dark chestnut colour which reaches 

 its maximum of brightness on the rump; even there however 



