riEUorrs iiypojiklaxi's xoaiksi. 119 



!(/. Pteropus hypomelanus toinesi, Fet. 



? Pteropus vocifei'us, Peale, U.S. E.vpl. E.vp. viii. Mamm. p. 19, 



text-ti;;. (skull) (1848: Mangsi 1., Balabac Straits); Warner, 



Schrebers Sduij., ib'uppl. v. p. 001 (1853-uo: Mangsi) ; Giehel, 



Sdug. p. 1003, footnote (IHua : Maiio-si) ; Fitzimjer, SB. Akad. 



Wien, Ix. Abth. i. p. 444 (1870: Maugsi). 

 ? Pteropus (Spectrum) hypomelaiiusy. vociferus, Matschic, M((/achir. 



p. 25, c/'. p. 11 (1899: ^langsi). e. vociferus, Trouessart, Cat. 



Mamm.,Siipi)l. p. 52 (1904: Maiigsi). 

 ? Pteropus inacliloti [nee Temm.), Cassin, U.S. Hxpl. Exp. viii. 



(2 ed.) p. 10, text-lig. (skull) (1858: Maagsi); Feters, MB. 



Akad. Berlin, 1867, p. 333 (pt.) ; Dobson, Cat. Chir. B. M. p. 00 



(pt.) (1878) ; Trouessart, Bev. S,- Ma//. Zool. (3j vi. p. 203 (pt.) 



(1879) ; id., Cat. Mamm. i. p. 83 (pt.)"(1897). 

 Pteropus hvpomelanus (iicc Temm. subsp.), Tomes, P. Z. S. 1858, 



p. 536 (1859: Labuau); Dobson. Cat. Chir. B. M. p. 58 (pt.) 



(1878 : IJorneo) ; Trouessart, liev. ^- Maq. Zool. (3j vi. p. 202 



(pt.) (1879: Borneo); Hose, Mamm. Borneo, p. 38 (1893); 



Everett, P. Z. S. 1893, p. 494 (Borneo) ; Trouessart, Cat. Mamm. 



i. p. 82 (pt.) (1897: Borneo); Willink, Nat. Tijd. Nederl. Ind. 



Ixv. p. 274 (pt.) (1905 : Borneo). 

 Pteropus hypomelanus var. toniesi, Peters, MB. Akad. Berlin, 1868, 



p. 620 (Sarawak). 

 Pteropus (Spectrum) hypomelanus c. tomesi, Matschie, Megachir. 



p. 25 (1899: Borneo), d. tomesi, Trouessart, Cat. Mamm., Suppl. 



p. 52 (1904: Sarawak). 

 Pteropus (hypomelanus) tomesi, Kloss, Journ. Fed. Mai. St. Mas. 



ii. no. 3, p. 153 (1908 : Pulo Kampia, Sembilau Is.). 



Diaijnosis. — Similar in size of teeth and external dimensions to 

 Pt. h. annectens, but on the whole much darker ; ajiprosimately seal- 

 hrown thinly sprinkled with greyish, and with mantle, head, and 

 breast varying from dark raaroou-chestnut to ciiiuamon-rufous. 

 Forearm i23-112-5 mm. Ilab, N. Borneo, with adjacent coast 

 islands ; Serabilan Is. 



Skull and teeth. — Teeth as in Pt. h. annectens, but the skull may 

 prove to average a little larger. 



Colour.- — Ordinary phase : breast a pale shade of hazel or 

 cinnamon-rufous, generally washed with orange-bufF (four speci- 

 mens ; ad. skin, teeth slightly worn, April, Mengaluu I., 94.7.2.2: 

 o ad. al., teeth slightly worn, Darvel Bay, 94.7.11.3 ; d ad. skin, 

 teeth much worn, July, Sibutu I., 93.11.2.2; ad. skin, teeth some- 

 what worn, Aug. or Se])t., Lamboyan I., 95.7.30.1). — Back and 

 rump varying from blackish seal-brown to pale seal-brown, slightly 

 or moderately, but never heavily, sprinkled with silvery whitish 

 hairs. — Breast, or at le.ist centre of breast, a pale shade of hazel or 

 cinnamon-rufous, as a rule more or less conspicuously washed with 

 orange-buff; on sides of breast, flanks, and belly the colour 

 gradually, sometimes rather abruptly, darkens to seal-brown or 

 blackish seal-brown with or Avithout a slight admixture of greyiah 

 hairs. — Mantle varying from dark maroon-chestnut to che.stnut 

 cinnamon-rutous or chcstnul-hazcl, becoming gradually darker on 



