18-t rTEUons taxikohexsis. 



22. Pteropus vanikorensis, Q. c|- G. 

 Pteropns kei-audreni (pt.), Dobsoii, Cat. Ohir. B. M. p. 63. 



r Pteropus cliissuniieri, Is. Geoffroy, Diet. Class. tVHist. Nat. xiv. 

 p. 701 (1828 : India ; Amboina) ; J. B. Fischer, Syn. Mamm. 

 p. 85, no. 11 (1829 : India ; Amboina) ; /*•. Geoffroy, in Belanyers 

 Voy. Indes Orient., Zool. p. 98 (1834 : India; Amboina) ; Lesson, 

 Hist. Nat. Mamm. (Com})!. Bvffou) v. p. 48 (1836: India; 

 Amboina): Teinniinck, Mon. Mamm. ii. p. 76 (1837: Indian 

 continent; not Amboina); Gray, Mag. Zool. Sc Bot. ii. p. 503 

 (1838: India; Amboina); Warner, Schrelter's Siiug., Suppl. i. 

 p. 355(1839: India; Amboina); Ogiiby, Madras Journ. Lit. S,- 

 Sci. xii. p. 146 (1840) ; Lesson, N. Tahl. R. Anim., Mamm.^. 13, 

 no. 181 (India); Schinz, Syst. Verz. Sang. i. p. 127 (1844: 

 Indian Peninsula) ; E. Desmarest, Diet. Univ. d'Hist. Nat. xi. 

 p. 248 (1848: India; Amboina); Wagner, Sckrebers Siiug., 

 Suppl. V. p. 601 (1853-55: ? Indian continent; P Amboina); 

 Gervais, Hist. Nat. Mamm. i. p. 188 (1854 : India) ; Giebel, 

 .S'rtvy. p. 988, footnote (1855: India; Amboina); Fitzinger, SB, 

 Akad. Wien, Ix. Abtb. i. p. 442 (1870 : Indian Peninsula). 



Pteropus vanikorensis, Quay iS'- Gaimard, Voy. ' Astrolabe,' Zool. i. 

 p. 77 (specimens, not skull), pi. ix. (animal) (1830: Vanikoro) ; 

 ■r Lesson, Hist. Nat. Mamm. (Compl. Buffon) v. p. 58 (1836: 



Vanikoro) ; TemmincTt, Mon. Mamm. ii. p. 78 (specimens, not 

 skull) (1837: Vanikoro); Wagner, Schreber's Saug., Suppl. i. 

 p. 354 (1839 : Vanikoro) ; E. Desmarest, Diet. Univ. d'Hist. 

 Nat. xi. p. 250 (1848 : Vanikoro) ; Gervais, Hist. Nat. Mamtn. 

 J. p. 188, c. fig. (head) (1854 : Vanikoro); Giebel, Siiug. p. 998, 

 footnote (1855 : Vanikoro). 



Pteropus Tanicorensis, Oken, AlU). Naturg. vii. Abth. ii. p. 990 

 (1838); Schinz. Syst. Verz. Siiug. i. p. 127 (1844: Vanikoro): 

 Wagner, Sc/ireber's Scim/., Suppl. v. p. 601 (1853-55 : Vanikoro) ; 

 Fitzinger, SB. Akad. Wien, Ix. Abth. i. p. 441 (1870: Vanikoro). 



Acerodon vanikorensis (pt.), Lesson, N. Tabl. Ii. Anim., Mamm. 

 p. 14, no. 194 (1842 : Vanikoro). 



Pteropus keraudreni (pt., nee Pt. keraudren, Q. 4- G.), Peters, MB. 

 Akad. Berlin, 1867, p. 331 ; Dob.wn, Cat. Cliir. B. M. p. 63 (1878) ; 

 Trouessart, Rev. <§• Mag. Zool. (3) vi. p. 203 (1879 : Vanikoro) : 

 id., Cat. Mamm. i. p. 82 (1897: Vanikoro). 



Pteropns tonganus (pt., 7ieo Q. Sj- G.), Matschie, Megachir. p. 19 

 (1899 : Vanikoro) ; Trouessart, Cat. Mamm., Stippl. p. 51 (1904 : 

 Vanikoro). 



Diagnosis. — Similar to Pt. mariannns, but with slightly larger 

 skull and relatively much larger orbits. Forearm about 186-137 

 mm. Hah. Sta. Cruz Is. 



Skull and teeth. — Skull averaging rather heavier than in Pt. 

 mariannvs and loocJioi'nsis ; orbital diameter 13 mm., against 11-5- 

 ll'S in the allied species. 



Fur. — As in Pt. fo))ija)ius. 



Colour. — Cotyjie. J ;(d.(Kog. no. A. 58). — Buck and rump dark 

 ?eal-brown, thinly sprinkled Avith greyish-white hairs. — Breast, 

 bcllv. Mild flanks similar, but flanks nither darker th;in cpidre of 



