240 rxERorus mklaxopogo.v. 



centre and along inner side of femur. Hairing on tmdcrside of 

 membranes as usual. 



Colour. — Skins of two adults, Burn and Ceram (62.5.24.1 and 

 52.5.1.5) : Back glossy blackish seal-brown ; rump slightly mixed 

 with chestnut, inner sides of thighs with chestnut and greyish 

 huffy hairs. — Breast rich glossy golden yellowish-huff, strongly 

 contrasting with chestnut foreneck, shading gradually into glossy 

 golden straw-yellow on belly and crissum, and into orange-ochra- 

 ceous on flanks. Base of fur everywhere nearly straw-yellow. 

 Underside of humerus blackish sprinkled with huffy. — Ifantle rich 

 glossy chestnut mixed with golden orange-buff hairs, lightening 

 ])osteriorly (shoulder-region) to deep golden orange-buff, and passing 

 on sides of neck into dark chestnut, this in turn on foreneck into 

 a slightly brighter golden chestnut. Concealed bases of hairs 

 everywhere paler than tips. — Crown glossy yellowish orange-buff 

 (somewhat paler than shoulders), darkening on sides of head to 

 chestnut sprinkled with orange-buff hairs, this again to blackish on 

 throat and chin. 



A nearly new-born young from Burn (skin, 62.5.24.3 ; hairs not 

 out on centre of breast and throat) is similar in colour to the 

 adults, hut with paler mantle and head. 



An immature female from Goram (skin, 61.12.11.5) is similar to 

 the adult specimens from Burn and Ceram, but with underside of 

 body conspicuously darker. Centre of breast and belly rich glossy 

 golden buff-yellow, gradually shading into tawny ochraceous and 

 tawny on sides of breast and belly, and this tinge again into deep 

 vandyck-brown on flanks and anal region. Underside of humerus 

 blackish. 



An immature male from Timor Laut (al., 83.3.24.1) is perfectly 

 similar in colour to the above described adult specimens from Burn 

 and Ceram. 



The type of the species (Amboina) and five specimens in the 

 Leyden Museum from Amboina, Ceram, and Saparua are on the 

 whole very similar to the British iluseum series from Burn, Ceram, 

 Goram, and Timor Laut, the only noteworthy individual variations 

 being nearly the same as in the British Museum series, viz., the 

 lighter or darker tinge of the colour of the head, mantle, and flanks, 

 and the more or less conspicuous sprinkling of the inner sides of 

 the thighs with chestnut and buffy hairs. The colour of the flanks 

 varies in the whole series from rich orange-ochraceous (brightest 

 extreme) to nearly chestnut seal-brown. 



Seanud differeutiatlon. — Canines noticeably stronger in males 

 than in females. Measurements taken on one male and tbree 

 females : upper canines, vertical extent from alveolar border 

 12 mm. (male) and 10-11 (females), antero-posterior basal diameter 

 6 (male) and 5-2-5'6 (females) ; lower canines, vertical extent 10'5 

 (male) and 8-9 (females), antero-posterior basal diameter 4*5 (male) 

 and 3-8-4 (females). 



Measurements. On pp. 244, 245. 



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