^M riERorrs adeatus. 



foi-eiirui 120, poUcx 58, thinl digit, metacarpal 76, ]st j)h. 63'."), 2ir1 ph. 89, 

 fifth digit, metacarpal 76, Jst ph. ,'58, 2nd ph. 34, tibia 56, foot 43. Resembles, 

 i)obson adds, externally to some extent Ft. anetianvs, " but the very ditfereut 

 form of the teeth at once distinguishes it" ; from Pt. ornaius, "inhabiting the 

 same islands, it is distinguished by the completely difierent colour of the fur 

 [Dobson had before him speeimens of Pt. ornatus for comparison], as well as 

 by the absence of transverse basal ridges in the molars and premolars." 



Type spechneni'. — The type of Pt. vetidus is nor, in the Paris Museum nor, I 

 am informed by Professor L. Corbiere, in the Cherbourg Museum. Dobson's 

 statement, in P. Z. S. 1878, p. 874, that the type [in 1878 or 1879] was in the 

 Paris Museum is erroneous; there is no evidence in the Registers of that 

 Museum that it ever was there ; and his descri))tiou in Cat. Chir. B.M. p. 27, 

 of '■ a female (typs of the species) " is taken from a specimen of Pt. ornarus. — 

 Pt. gcrmaini was based ovi a single specimen in the Paris Museum. I have 

 c."iannned all the specimens in that Museum collected by Germain in New 

 Caledonia; none is labelled Pt. gcrmaivi, and none corresponds to the det^irip- 

 tion and measurements given by Dobson.] 



13. Pteropus auratus, A'. And. 

 Pterojius vetulus (pt.), Pobson, Cat. Chir. B. M. p. 28. 



Pteropus vetulus (pt., nee Jouan), Dohson, I. s. c. (1878: Loyalty Is.) ; 



uL, P. Z. S. Ib78, p. 874 (1879 : Loyalty Is.) ; Trouessart, Rev. 



cV Mai/. Zuol. (3) vi. p. 204 (1879 : Loyalty Is.) ; var., Trouessart, 



Cat. Mamm. i. p. 78 (1897: Loyalty Is.). 

 Pteropus (Spectrum) vetulus (pt.), Matschie, Merjachir. p. 21 (1899 : 



Loyalty Is.); var., Trouessart, Cat. Mamm., Suppl. p. 51 (19()4: 



Loyalty Is.). 

 Pteropus auratus, K. Andersen, Ann. S,- Mag. X. II. (8) iii. p. 2Z'C> 



(1 Feb. 1909: Lifu, Loyalty Is.). 



Diaijnosis. — Similar to Ft. ornatus iu sliull, dentition (though 

 perhaps with slightly smaller cheek-teeth), distribution of fur (tibiii 

 clothed above), and general size, but with larger ears and different 

 colour of the fur. Head, mantle, and underparts golden ochiaceous, 

 back mixed ochraceous-buif and brown. Forearm about 145 mm. 

 Bah. Loyalty Is. 



Teeth. — General character.s as in Pt. ornatus. Id the single 

 known specimen p"*, m\ Pj, p^, and ra^ are distinctly smaller than 

 in three skulls of Pt. ornatus; see measurements p. 158. 



PaJate-ridr/es. — 5 + 6 + 3. First ridge terminating lateralh' at 

 front of canines ; second at back of canines ; third between canines 

 and p' ; fourth at middle of p'' : iifth at front of p^ ; sixth at 

 back of p'' ; seventh at front of m' ; eighth at back of m' ; ninth 

 at back of (or closely behind) nr ; tenth and eleventh behind nr ; 

 twelfth to fourteenth situated at palation border. 



Ears. — Conspicuously longer and broader than in Pt. ornaius ; 

 length from base of orifice 24'5 mm., against 20 in the allied 

 species, greatest breadth (Hattened) 17 mm., against 12. 



C'oZowr (type). — Back vandyck-brown with long golden ochraoeous- 

 buff tips to the hairs, producing the general effect of golden 

 ochraceous clouded with brown. — Breast and belly rich golden 

 ochraceous, palest (golden ochraceous-buff) at base of hairs, shading 

 to tawny on foreneck. sides of neck, and flanks, and to tawny 

 nisset faintly sprinkled with ochraceous on chin, throat, and anal 

 legion. — Mantle rich golden ocliraceous-buff, this colour confined to 

 lips of hairs, middle portion of individual h'lirs buff, extreme base 



