12 KIDOLOX HKLVrM. 



VespertUlo vainjjtjrLits Jielvus, Kerr ; 1792. — The species of Eido- 

 lon described above was well known to the earh' post-Linneari 

 systematists, who put it dowu as a variety of VespertUio (or 

 Pterojnis) vamptjrus, L. The earliest recognizable figure aud 

 description appear to he those given by Pennant, in 1771 (I. s. c), 

 under the name " Lesser Ternate Bat," so called because Pennant 

 considered it a lesser variet)' of Seba's " Canis volans Ternatanus 

 orientalis." Kerr's V. vampyrus Jielvus is based on Pennant's 

 description and figure of this bat. Type originallj' in Museum 

 Leverianum ; no habitat given by Pennant, nor by Kerr. Senegal 

 may be fixed as the type loculity of E. helvmn. 



Pteropus stramineus, Geoff. ; 1803. — Eased on three examples in 

 the collection of the Paris Museum, viz., two specimens (nos. 92 and 

 93) from unknown locality, presented by Professor Fourcroy, and one 

 (no.94)"de la collection du Stathouder," this latter wrongly supposed 

 by Geoffrey to be the original of Seba's description and figure of 

 Canis volans Ternatanus orientalis (Thes. i. pp. 91-92, pi. Ivii. 

 figs. 1, 2). None of the specimens now in the collection of the Paris 

 Museum can bo pointed out, with certainty, as the true cotypes of 

 Ft. stramineus. Four characters in Geoffrey's description of this bat 

 are, however, decisive evidence that his specimens were E. helvum, 

 viz., upper incisors '■ tres-ecartees " ; a short tail (10 mm.) ; total 

 length 150 mm., expanse 640 mm.; colour '• jaunatre."— The 

 " Cat. Mamm. Mus. Xation. d'Hist. Nat." (1803) was suppressed by 

 Geoffroy himself, and the name Pteropus stramineus is therefore 

 usually dated from his well-known paper in Ann. Mus. d'Hist. Nat. 

 XV. (1810). In this latter Geoffroy based Pt. stramineus on two 

 specimens, the one stated to be from Timor (Peron and Lesueur), the 

 other without details (and possibly one of the cotypes from 1803). 

 The error as to the locality of the former of these specimens was 

 pointed out by Temminck (1837, I. s.c). 



Pterocyon paleace^i,s. Pet.; 1861. — Type locality, Africa ; no type. 

 Owing to Geofl^roy's statement that Pteropms stramineus had been 

 obtained in Timor by ]\^ron and Lesueur, and evidently unaware of 

 the fact that this error had been corrected by Temminck, Peters 

 proposed for the African species the name Ptcrocifon paleaceus. 

 Eut Pt. stramineus was in reality not from Timor, but from Africa; 

 and the very species named by Peters ijaleaceus. 



Pteropus mollipiilosus, H. Allen ; 1862. — Type locality : " W. 

 Africa"; as belonging to DuChaillu's collections, the type is no 

 doubt from Gaboon ; type presumably in the Philadelphia Museum. 

 The essence of the original description is this : a very small tail 

 present ; first upper premolar larger than incisors ; third digit 8". 

 Eidolon hdviihi is the only known Afiican bat for which the 

 combination of these characters holds good. 



Pteropus pahnarum, Heugl. ; 1865. — Type locality: "Am mitt- 

 lern und oberu weissen Nil und zwischen Senar und Fazogl Ijings 

 des blauen Flusses"; type not in existence (?) (see Heuglin, Eeise 

 in N.O.-.\frika. ii. p. 15). DiflTers, according to Heuglin, from 

 Pt. f/ranuif'is ■" durch Mangel eines Sohwanzrurjiment? luid mit 



