rrrKOPUs somtatstus. 2G9 



species is found in (jiay's Catalogue of Monkeys, Lemurs, and 

 Fruit-eating Eats (1S7U, I. s. c); probably misled by a certain 

 similarity in tlie colour of the fur and the size and shape of the ears, 

 (>ray considered it, tliough ■with some doubt, a variety of the -widely 

 different AceroJon mmlloii. Its specific distinctness was pointed out 

 ti few years later by Dobson (1878, I. s. c), who also recognized its 

 affinities to Pt. rayneri. The figure of the ear given by Dobson 

 (pi. iii. fig. 2 ; drawn from a dried skin) is not quite satisfactory in 

 details: the ear is rather too short, the inner margin too straight 

 (not convex enough) in the uTjper half, the flat concavity in the 

 outer margin below the tip not distinctly shown. By Matschie 

 (lyOiJ, I. s. c), who knew this species from literature only, it was 

 wrongly put down as a geographical form of Ft. hypomelanus. 



Plerojnis tricolor, Heude (nee Gray); 1890. — Type localitj-, 

 Fjores ; type presumably in the Zi-ka-wei Museum, near Shanghai. 

 '• Le seul sujet que j'ai de cctte jolie espcce mesure 15 centimetres. 

 La tete osseuse est moitic plus petite que celle de Yechdis. La tete 

 et le menton sont roux clair ; le cou est blanc uu pen teinte de roux : 

 le dos est gris. Les parties correspondantes inferieures ont les 

 niemes teinf es. Pelage doux et soyeux " (Heude, I. s. c). By 

 ^latschie (1. s. c.) considered " eine geograj)hische Abart von Ft. tem- 

 viincl-i,'' evidently owing to the pale colour of the fur; but the 

 teeth (figured by Heude) are very different from those of Ft. tem- 

 mincl-i and in all important characters closely similar to those of 

 Fl. loinhocensis. — The name tricolor, as being preoccupied, was 

 clianged by Matschie into heiuh-i. 



n. Ad. sic. ; '/Loinbok. Di-. A. R. Wallace 57.4.17.1. 



skull. . [C.]. 



/*. S Ktl. sk. ; Loinbuk. Dr. A. E. Wallane f.4.4.12.2. 



skull. [C.].- 



{Type of .species.) 



<■-./• d" Jg- a<b, Lortibok (/>/-. A. 11. Tomes Coll. 7.1.1.246-249. 



3 yg. afl. ]Vidki<-e). 



sks. ; skulls. 



rjT. c? neb al. ; Flores. sea-level ; Nov. A. Everett [C.l. 07.4.18.0. 



skull. 1890. 



49. Pteropus solitarius, A". And. 



Pteropu.s turumiiK-lii {nee Fct.), Jlartcrt, Nov. Zuol. v. p. 4-')6 (1898 : 



AIov). 

 Pteropus solitarius, A'. Anderxen, Ann. 1^- Mckj. X. 11. (8) ii. p. 367 



(1 Oct. 1908 : Alor). 



Diagnosis. — Similar to Ft. lomhocensis, but smaller and paler in 

 colour. Forearm 108-5 mm. If<d>. Alor Island, X. of Timor. 



'■'o/owr. — Type of the species ( J ad. skin, teeth slightly worn; 

 April): Back Front's brown, much lightened with huffy or buify- 

 day tips to the hairs, and becoming gradually ])urer (more un- 

 mi.xed) bufl'y-clay on nimp. Base of fur (partly concealed on 

 back, completely on rump) seal-brown. — Breast, belly, anal region, 



