282 PXEEoros nawatkjjsis. 



Ears. — Short, half exposed. Inner margin convex from base to 

 tip, outer margin convex in lower, almost straight in upper half ; 

 tip rounded ott'. Naked posteriorly, except at base. 



Wings. — Membranes about 26 mm. apart at origin from sides of 

 back. 



Interfemoral. — Extremely short or undeveloped in centre. 



Fur. — Length moderate : about 16 mm. at middle of back, 17 

 at middle of mantle, 18 at middle of belly. Straight and directed 

 backward, but not closely adpressed, on back. Least width of 

 furred area of back about 50 mm. 



A thin line of short adpressed hairs along upi)erside of humerus. 

 Proximal third of forearm covered with short sparse hair above. 

 Tibia densely clothed above with long hairs, quite or almost to ankle. 

 Beneath, antebrachial membrane, lateral membrane along outer 

 side of forearm to some distance from carpal joint, and membrane 

 between humerus and femur, densely covered with woolly hair. 

 Underside of tibia hairy for proximal third. 



Colour. — 9 ad. skin, teeth slightly worn ; Nauai, Fiji, November ; 

 type of species, 56.9.4.2 : — Eack and rump approximately Prout's 

 brown, conspicuously varied with wood-brown, and slightly 

 sprinkled with silvery whitish-grey. Individual hairs (excepting 

 the whitish hairs, which are uniform from base to tip) dark vandyck- 

 brown, almost seal-brown, at base, pale wood-brown at tip ; dark 

 base of fur partly exposed on back, quite or almost concealed on 

 rump. — Breast and belly between vandyck-brown and seal-brown 

 (base of fur), strongly lightened with glossy golden buffy wood- 

 brown tips to the hairs, and somewhat sjirinkled with silvery 

 greyish-wbito hairs. General effect darkest along centre of breast 

 and belly, owing to pale hair-tips being short or absent ; palest, 

 golden buffy wood-brown varied with dark brownish, on flanks, 

 sides of breast, and belly, owing to jialo hair-tips quite or almost 

 concealing dark base of fur. Anal region washed with mars-brown. 

 — Mantle buffy, slightly tinged with ochraceous-buff, shading almost 

 to cream-buff posteriorly, and to ochraceous on sides of neck. 

 Concealed bases of hairs everywhere seal-brown. Foreneck mixed 

 ochraceous and dark brown, not essentially different from sides 

 of breast and belly. — Buffy colour of mantle extending forward 

 on occiput, crown, and interocular space ; all hairs seal-brown at 

 concealed bases. Face and sides of head whitish-grey conspicuously 

 mixed with blackish hairs, extending backward above the eye as an 

 ill-defined superciliary stripe. Chin and throat seal-brown, slightlj- 

 sprinkled with greyish-white hairs. 



cJ ad. skin, teeth slightly worn ; Ovalau, Fiji, August ; type 

 of Pt. vitiensis, Gray, 58.12.27.3 : — Not essentially different from 

 the above, but conspicuously darker, and mantle richer in colour. — 

 Back and rump vandyck-brown, varied with ochraceous wood- 

 brown (approaching golden cinnamon), particularly on sides of back 

 along membranes, and slightly sprinkled with silvery greyish-white 

 hairs. Individual hairs seal-brown at base, ochraceous wood-brown 

 at tip, producing a dark brown varied with ochraceous wood-brown 



