128 PTEROPLS IlYPOilELANUS LUTECS. 



the Leydeu Collection three mounted specimens (Cab. Syst. p. 148, 

 l>, c, d) and two skulls (Cat. Ost. p. 261, a and e). An exami- 

 nation of these specimens has satisfied me that tho original 

 material on which Temminciv founded Ft. liypomelanus consisted 

 of two different species, Ft. hupomelanus and caniceps. The 

 mounted specimen h {S ad.) and tho skull a are caniceps ; the 

 former is, no doubt, the specimen to which Temminck himself 

 called attention as differing in colour from the others (Esquisses, 

 p. Q2). The real cotypes of lujpomelanus are, therefore, the 

 mounted specimens c and d, and the skull e (not full-grown). 

 Cotype c is a 2 imm., not quite full-grown ; cotype d \s a, S yg- ad., 

 quite or nearly full-grown, though with unconsolidated iinger- 

 joiuts. The colour of the fur is in both somewhat bleached, but 

 has undoubtedly been quite similar to that of the British Museum 

 •specimens. 



Fteropus tricolor, Gray ; 1870. — Type locality, Ternate ; typo 

 (skin and skull) in collection. Based on a topotype of Ft. liypo- 

 vielanus. The species called by Gray " Ft. hypomeJas " (Cat. 

 Monk. &c. p. 110 ; 1870) is Ft. araensis, Pet. 



«. 2 imm. sk. ; skull. Ternate. Dr. A. B. Wallace [C.]. fiO.S.-2r..l. 



( 2v//)e of I'f. iricolor, Gray.) 

 b. Imm. st. ; skull. Teniate. Tomes Coll. (Verreaux). Not, reg. 



' 1 1-. Pteropus liypomelanus luteus, A'. And. 



Pteropus hvpouielanns (nee Temm. suhsp.), Dobsnn, Cat. Chi?\ 

 JJ. M. p. 58, specimen j (1878 : S. of Plunn Gulf, New Guniea) ; 

 Trouessart,EeD.^- May. Zool.{^)\'i.^. 20-2 (pt.) (1879: HiioiiGulf) ; 

 Dobnon, P. Z. 8. 1878, p. 875 (1879 : Amberbaki, New Guinea); 

 Peters i^- Doria, Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova, x\i. p. ()90 (1881: New 

 Guinea); Phomas, Nov. Zool. ii. p. 163 (180o : Fergiisson I., 

 D'Entrecasteaux Ciroup) ; id., oj). cit. iii. p. 526 (1896: Kiriwiiia 

 I., Trobriaiul Group) ; id., Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova, (2) xviii. 

 p. 608 (1897 : AVoodlark I.) ; Heller, Ahh. Mus. Dre.^den, vi. 

 no. 8, p. 4 (1897: AmberbaUi ; Iluon Guif ; Trobriand : D'Entre- 

 casteaux) ; Prouessart, Cat. Mamvi. i. p. 82 (pt.) (1897: New 

 Guinea) ; Willink, Nat. Pijd. Kederl. Ind. Ixv. p. 274 (pt.) (1905: 

 New Guinea). 



Pteropus (Spectrum) hvpomelanus, Matiichie, Megachir. p. 24 (pt.) 

 (1899: Mafur, N.W. New Guinea; Woodlark I.) ; Prouessurt, Cat. 

 Mamm., Siippl. p. 52 (pt.l (1904: N.W. New Guinea). 



Spectrum hypomelanum, MatscJiie, in Kriexjer^ Neu-Gninea, p. 77 

 (1899: N. New Guinea); Jentink, Notes Leydcn Mvs. xxviii. 

 pp. 1G4, ^09 (1906). 



Pteropus hvpomelanus luteus, K. A)ulersen, Ann. if Mar/. N. II. (8) 

 ii. p. 362* (1 Oct. 1908: New Guinea; Contlictls. ; Trobriand Is. ; 

 AVoodlark I.). 



Diitf/ywsis. — The palest race of the species: back, rump, and 

 flanks some shade of brown (from nearly seal-brown to mars-brown); 

 head, mantle, throat, forcneck, breast, and belly some shade of 

 ochraeeous-buff, buif, or cream-buff, with or without a brownish 



