120 PTEROrTTS nVrOMELANDS TOMtlSI. 



sides of neck, and dark chestnut or seal-brown on forencck. — Crown 

 similar to mantle, or rather brighter, or somewhat clonded with 

 dark brown, indistinctly sprinkled with greyish or buffy hairs, 

 passing througli a darker shade on sides of head, into blackish seal- 

 brown on throat. 



A fifth specimen ( cJ ad, al., teeth slightly worn, Darvel l)ay, 

 1)4.7.14.2) is similar to the above in the colour of the mantle, head, 

 and underparts, but on the sides of the back the number of silvery 

 greyish-whito hairs, washed with buffy, has so greatly increased as 

 to change the general effect of the colour to butfy greyish-white 

 sprinkled with blackish ; rump greyish-white suffused with buffy 

 and russet and slightly sprinkled with blackish. In the colour of the 

 back and rump this specimen comes very near to certain individuals 

 of Pt. h. lepidus, the only noteworthy difference being that the 

 grevish-whitc colour does not extend to the median portion of 

 the back. 



In a sixth specimen (J ad. al., teeth much worn, Darvel Bay, 

 94,7.14.1) the whole of the back is very strongly suffused with 

 russet, darkest on front of back, gradually merging into a paler 

 (more golden ochraceous) shade on rump, and the colour of tlie 

 breast and belly is rather brighter, more washed with ochraceous, 

 ihan usual. In tho whole of the coloration this specimen comes 

 very near to Pt. Ti. annectens. 



The blackish and the grey-bellied phases of this form are as yet 

 unknown. 



Measurements. On pp. 125, 126. 



Sjieclmens examined. Eight, iu the collection of the British 

 Museum. 



E'(i)ge. Sarawak ; Labuan and Mcngalun Islands (off N.W. 

 Borneo) ; Sibutu Island (cff N.E. Borneo) ; Lamboyan (off S. 

 TalaAvan) ; Scmbilan Islands (off N.E. Sumatra). 

 ?'v^)« not in existence (?). 



P^a-op^s )'oc(yVr(;,s, Pealc ; 184S. — T}-pe locality, Mangsi Island, 

 Balabac Straits ; type iu the U.S. National Museum (no. 3961). 

 Ten years later identified by Cassin (l.s.c.) with Pi. [i. e. Acerodon^ 

 macMoti. — The following details about the type-specimen were 

 kindly contributed by l)r. Marcus W. Lyon, Washington : Once 

 mounted and on exhibition, then put away in storage ; no skull 

 found in tho skin, and none in the collection known to belong to it 

 [but must have been examined by Peale, since figured by him] : 

 specimen not full-grown, actual length of forearm 117 mm., of 

 tibia 60 mm. ; furred area of back of normal breadth ; fur so 

 bleached that there is no telling what were the original colours, 

 — Without an examination of the dentition it is impossible to decide 

 whether Pt. vociferus is a Pteropus^ (in which case there can pre- 

 sumably only be question of a form of the hijpomehtnus type) or a 

 small Acerodon. When to this it is added that the specimen is 

 young and the colours unreeognizalile, Pt. vnnfem.s must, for the 

 present at least, be put down as indeterminable. 



Pteropus Injpomelanus var. tomesi, Peters: 1868. — Name proposed 



