316 FTEKOrUS TEMMINCh']. 



extending to llic tips ot the h.iirs, instead of being restricted to 

 their concealed bases). Pt. personatm is the smallest known 

 species of the genus, Pt. capistratus conspicuously larger, Pt. tem- 

 mlncki intermediate. Although occurring in the Moluccas and 

 Bismarck Archipelago, this group is apparently unrepresented in 

 New Guinea. 



Affinities of fjroap. — The known species of this group stand 

 somewhat isolated in the genus : it is scarcely possible to point 

 out, with any degree of probability, their closest relatives among 

 living species. The characters of the skull are mostly those 

 usuallv, in this genus, found in species witli weak or degenerate 

 dentition, those of the dentition rather generalized, except of course 

 in the excessively narrow-toothed Pt. pi'.rsonatus. That the three 

 species are closely interrelated is beyond all doubt, and the group 

 would seem, provisionally at least, to tind its natural place in the 

 vicinity of the other Pteropi witli short rostrum and clothed tibiae. 

 To the strong reduction of the cheek-teeth in Pt. personate there 

 are parallels in certain other groups of the genus (hypomelanas 

 group : Pt. suhniger ; scapulntus group : Pt. scajndatns and wood- 

 fordl), and even in a different genus (Bouseiius lanosus) ; the 

 peculiarity is probably in all cases due to adaptation to a special 

 kind of food. 



01. Pteropus temmincki, Pet. 

 Ptevopus temminchi (pt.), Dobson, Cat. Chir. B. il. p. 40. 



Pteropus griseus (nee E. Geoff.), Temiuinch, Man. Matiini. ii. p. 81 

 (pt.), pi. xxxvi. tizs. 14, 16 (skull) (wee pi. .\xxv. tig. G, pi. xxxvi. 

 tigs. 12, 13) (1837: Samao, nr. Timor: Amboina) ; S. Miiller, in 

 Temminch, Nat. Gesch. Nederl. Overz. Bez., Zoo</d. p. 59 (pt.) 

 (1839-44 : Amboina) ; Schinz, Si/sf. Vciz. Simfl. i. p. 128 (pt.) 

 (1844: Amboina); Gray, ZooL ^ Samaranr/,' Vert. p. 11 (pt.) 

 (1849 : Amboina ; Timor) ; Wnyner, Si-hrebers Siim/., Suppl. x. 

 p. 602 (pt.) (18o3-o5: Amboina); Gervais, liift. Nat. Mamni. 

 i. p. 187 (pt.) (1854: .\mboina); Gerrard, Cat. Bonea Mamm. 

 B. M. p. 57 (1862 : Ceram) ; Finsch, Neu-Gidycen, p. 150 (pt.) 

 (1865 : Amboina) ; Gray, Cat. Monk. S,-c. p. 110 (1870 : Timor) ; 

 Eosetiberff, Malay. Arch. p. 322 (1878: Ceram). 



Pteropu?i temmincki, Peters, MB. Akad. Berlin, 1867 (May), p. 331 

 ( Amboina ; Samao) ; Dobson, Cat. Chir. B. M. p. 40 (1878: CVram ; 

 Timor) ; Troiiessart, Mer. Sr May. Zonl. (.3) vi. p. 205 (pt.) (1879 : 

 Amboina ; Geram) ; Jentink, Cat. Ost. Mamm. p. 254, nos. b-f 

 (1887: Samao; Amboina; Ceram); id.,Cat. Syst. Mumm.^.X^ 

 (pt.) (1888: Amboina; Ceram); Traucssart, Cat. Mamm. i. 

 p. 79 (pt.) (1897: Amboina; Ceram); Mntschie, Mcyachir. 

 pi vi. figs. 4,'4 a, 4 b (skull) (1899 ; Amboina) ; Miller, lutm. i,- 

 Gen. Bats, p. 58 (pt.) (1907). 



Pteropus (Sericonycteris) petersi, Matschie, 3Ieyachir. -p. -M (1899: 

 Amboina I ; Troiiessart, Cat. Mamm., Sappl. p. 54 (1904: Ceram ; 

 Amboina). 



Pteropus petersi, Willink, Nat. Tijd. Nederl. Lid. Ixv. p. 275 (1905 : 

 Ceram ; .Amboina). 



i>(Vr'/»os/.s-.— Skull delicate, orbits unusually large, rostrum short 



