PTEnOrUS HYPOilELANrS r.EPlDrS. 11') 



1 e. Pteropus hypomelanus lepidus, Mdler. 



Pteropiis lepidus, 3IiUer, Proc. Wash. Arnd. Sci. ii. p. £37, text-fi?. 



(skull) (20 Aug. 1900 : Saddle I. : BigTambelan I.) ; Trouesmrt, 



Cat. Mamm., Suppl. p. 53 (1904 : Tambelan Group) ; Miller, 



Fam. ^- Gen. Bats, p. 68, fig. 8 (skull) (1907). 

 Pteropus hypomelanus lepidus, Tliomns, Journ. Feci. Mai. St. Mas. 



ii. no. 3, pp. 101, 102 (1908: Juara Eny, P. Tion;an). 

 Pteropus (livpomelanus) lepidus, Kluss, Journ. Fed. Mai. St. 3Ius. 



ii. no. 3, p. 153 (1908: P. Tioman ; Permangil ; Aor). 

 ? Pteropus nicobaricus (nee Zelebor), Bonhote, P. Z. S. 1900, p. 875 



(Apr. 1901: Great Iledang I.); Kloss, Journ. Fed. Mai. St. 



Mus. ii. no. 3, p. 152 (1908 : (treat liedang I.). 



Diagnosis. — Similar to Ft. li. canns, but mantle and head, in tho 

 normal pale-coloured phase, conspicuously darker. Forearm 1!^1- 

 139 mm. Hah. Tambelan group ; P. Aor; P. Tioman. 



Skull and teeth. — As in Ft. li. canns. 



Colour. — (1) Pale phase (six skins). — Light greyish colour of 

 back sometimes nearly without any trace of butfy suffusion (one 

 specimen, J ad., Sept., P. Tioman; 8.2.25.2); generally strongly 

 washed with golden buffy (one, (j" ad., Aug., Big Tambelan I., 

 101649), or irregularly clouded with ])ale cinnaraon-buffy or very 

 pale mars-brown (three; $ ad., Aug., Big Tambelan I., 101650; 

 5 ad., June, P. Aor, 112404; d ad., June, P. Tioman, 8.1.25.2).— 

 Centre of breast golden ochraceous tinged with orange-buff, or rich 

 huffy russet, or chestnut-hazel, passing into dark chestnut on sides 

 of breast and centre of belly ; flanks greyish broccoli-brown or light 

 hair-brown sprinkled with blackish hairs, this grizzled colour some- 

 times extending to sides of belly and anal region. — Mantle sometimes 

 chocolate with paler hair-bases, biit generally more or less clouded 

 with seal-brown, sometimes nearly uniform seal-brown ; sides of neck 

 and head, foreneck, and throat similar or darker. Crown similar 

 to mantle or paler. 



(2) Blackish phase ( J ad., Aug., Big Tambelan I., 101651).— 

 Indistinguishable from corresponding phase of Ft. h. caiias. Tlie 

 only specimen has a faint trace of a brighter colour on the centre of 

 the breast. 



Measurements. On pp. 117, 118. 



Specimens examined. Seven, from the collections of the U.S. 

 National* (three. Big Tambelan T., paratypes ; one, P. Aor), Kuala 

 Lumpur (one, P. Tioman), and British Museums. 



Eancje. Tambelan Islands (Saddle I. ; Big Tambelan I.) ; Pulo 

 Aor ; Pulo Tioman ; probably also Permangil and Great Kedang 

 Island (see references above). 



Type m the U.S. National Museum (no. 101670, Saddle I.). 



Itemarlcs. — The closest known relative of this form is undoubtedly 

 Ft. h. canus ; but in the colour of the back (light greyish generally 

 more or less strongly suffused with huffy or some buffj' shade of 

 pale brownish) it shows leanings towards its eastern neighbour, 

 Ft. h. anneciens, from S. Natunas. 



* X.J3. JU1(149-:.I; 1121114. 



