PTEROPirS AEXJENSIS. 241 



(one, the type, Amboina), Leyden (seven, Aml3oina,Ccram, Sapania, 

 viz. mounted specimens <j, h, i, j, I, skeletons a, h), and British 

 Museums (five, Buru, Ceram, Gorara, Timor Laut). 



Range. Amboina group : Burn, Amboina, Ceram, Boano, Saparna, 

 Coram, Manavollia ; Banda Islands ; Timor Laut. The species has 

 been recorded in literature from the Sanghir Islands ; see references, 

 above. 



TyjJ'i in the Berlin Museum. 



Pteropvs n)eIano2Jogon, Peters; 1867. — Type locality, Amboina. 

 Tj'pe, a mounted young adult male, skull in situ, collected by 

 S. Miiller, and acquired from the Leyden Museum ; Beg. no. 2627. 



Remarks. — The broad rostrum, AvcU-markcd posterior ledges of 

 the premolars, broad ears, excessively narrow furred area of the 

 back, and very large size, are the most conspicuous diagnostic 

 characters of Ft. melanopor/on. In the reduction of the fur of the 

 back it is approached by Pt. papuanus and neohibeniims, in which, 

 however, the posterior ledges of the premolars are obsolete ; in 

 size it is surpassed only by the largest races of Pt. vampyriis. 

 The species has rather closely allied representatives in the Aru 

 {^Pt. aruensis) and Key Islands (Pi. Iceyensis). 



Purcbasetl (Baker). 56.10.1.7. 



Dr. A. E. Wallace [0.]. 62.5.24.1, 3. 



Purchased (Verreaux). 52.5.1.5. 

 Dr. A. E. Wallace [C.]. 61.12.11.5. 



British Association [P.]- 83.3.24.1. 



39. Pteropus aruensis, Pd. 

 Pteropus melanopogon (pt.), Dobson, Cat. Chir. B. M. p. 44. 



Pteropua argentatus (nee Gray, 1844), Gray, P. Z. S. 1858, p. 107 

 (Aru Is.) ; id., Cat. Mamm. New Guinea, p. 2 (1859 : Aru Is.) ; 

 Finsch, Neu- Guinea, p. 150 (pt.) (1865: Aru Is.) ; Rosenberg, 

 Reis. Zuidoostereil. p. 31 (pt.) (1867 : Aru Is.) ; id., Malay. Arch. 

 p. 360 (pt.) (1878: Aru Is.). 



Pteropus melanopogou var. aruensis, Peters, MB, Akad, Berlin, 

 1867 (27 May), p. 380 (Aru Is.) ; Peters S) Doria, Ann. Mus. Civ. 

 Genora, xvi. p. 689(1881 : Aru Is.) ; Troiicssarf, Cat. Mamm. i. 

 p. 80 (1897: Aru Is.); Matschie, Meyachir. pi. vi. figs. 3, Za, 

 3 6 (skull) (1899). 



Pteropus aruensis, Jentink, Cat. Ost. Manim. p. 256 (pt.) (1887: 

 Wokam ; Wonumbay) ; id.. Cat. Syst. Mamm. p. 143 (pt.) (1888 : 

 Woliam ; Wonumbay); Matschie, Mf.gachir. p. 14 (1899: Aru 

 Is.); Tronessart, Cat. Mamm., Suppl. p. 49 1 1904: W^okam) ; 

 Willinh, Nat. Tijd. Nederl. Ind. l.vv. p. 274 (1905 : Aru Is.). 



Pteropus melanopogon aruensis (pt.), Heller, Abh. Mus. Dresden, vi. 

 no. 8, p. 4 (1897 : Aru Is.). 



Pteropus rubiginosus, Rosenberg, Reis. Zuidoostereil. p. 31 (1867: 

 Wokam) ; id., Malay. Arch. p. 360 (1878 : Wokam). 



