•->1S riKKOITS Ti;.MMIXCKri 



concealed dnrk bases ; a similar increase in trie length of the pale- 

 coloured tips is seen on the iinderparts, from the anal region 

 forward. 



Measurements. On pp. 322, 323. 



Specimens examined. The material in the Leyden, Berlin, and 

 British JVfuseUDis, including the cotypes of Pi. temminchi and 

 Ft. petersi. 



Range. Ceram ; Araboina ; Timor. 



Cotypes in the Berlin iruseura. 



Pteropus griseus, Tenim. (nee Geofl'.) ; 1S37. — Ple)'op7is ijriscua, 

 Temm., 1825, is a redescription of Pt. grisexis, Geoff., 1810, accom- 

 panied by a copy of Geotfroy's plate. — Pt. griseus, Temm.. 1837 

 (I. s. c), is a mixture of two very different species, viz. (1) the true 

 Pt. grisetis, Geoff, (see that species, p. 139) : (2) a species later on 

 described by Peters as Pt. temmincl-i : of Teraminck's original material 

 (1837) of this part of his Pt. griseus are now in the Leyden Museum 

 one skeleton from Samao (Cat. Ost. p. 254. Pt.t.emmincli, specimen b), 

 two skulls from Amboina (ibid., t?and/), and one from Ceram 

 (ibid., e) ; skull / is the original of Temminck's figures, Mon. Mamm. 

 ii. pi. xxxvi. figs. 14-15. 



Pteropus temmincki, Pet. : 1867. — Based on three mounted spe- 

 cimens (skulls separate) from Amboina, all acquired by the Berlin 

 Museum from the Leyden Museum, viz. Berl. Mus. nos. 2633 ( cT ad.. 

 iS. MuUer), 3473 ( c?"ad., llosenberg), and 4964 ( S ad., Bernstein ; 

 the sicull of this specimen is the original of Matschie's ' Megachiro- 

 ptera,' pi. vi. fig. 4) : they are all marked by Peters himself as 

 cotypes of Ft. temminchi (by an asterisk after the name on the 

 printed label). I have examined these skins and skulls (skull 2633 

 excepted) and found them in every respect similar to a British 

 Museum specimen from Ceram : this latter, as bought of Frank, is 

 probablj' also a duplicate from the Leyden collection. — On the basis 

 of the three Berlin specimens referred to above Peters wrote (1867, 

 7. 5. <•.) that Temminck's Pt. griseus {1S'S7) is " sehr verschieden von 

 dem Geoffroy'schen Pt. griseus, den Temminck unter dem Xamen 

 Ft. pallidtis beschrieben hat." This statement requires some 

 modification : Peters had only seen Amboina specimens of Tem- 

 minck's " griseus '" (1837), which in fact are different from Geoffrey's 

 griseus, but he had not seen Temminck's Timor (Samao) specimens, 

 some of which are the true griseus, Geoff. ; and Temminck's 

 Ft. 2iallidus is not Geoffrey's Ft. griseus, but a distinct (though 

 .lUied) species. It should be mentioned that Peters refers to 

 Temminck's skull figures in Mon. Mamm. ii. pi. xxxvi. figs. 12-13 

 (which are the true Pt. griseus, Geoff. ) as representing Pt. temmincki ; 

 but this is undoubtedly a slip for figs. 14-15. 



Pteropus petersi. ^Matschie ; 1 89!l.— Accidental renaming of species 

 due to a mistaken identification of Peters "s /-•{. temmincki. Matschie 

 rightly points out that of the four skull figures of " Pt. griseus'' given 

 by Temminck (pi. xxxvi. figs. 12-15), figs. 12-13 (from a Hamao 

 skull) differ markedly from figs. 14-15 (Amboina skull) and uti- 

 doubtedly represent a species different from thi? latter; but he 



