I'TEROPUS CAl'l^ITUATUS. ;J1J» 



■wrongly transfors the name Ft. temmincli from the Amboina species, 

 to which it was given b}' Peters, to the Samao species, i. e. the true 

 Ft. (jriseits, Geoff., and describes the Amboina species as new under 

 the name Ft. petersi. The cotypes of Ft. petersi, in the Berlin 

 Museum, are the very three cotypes of Pt. temmincki ; and the skull 

 ligure in iiatschie's ' Megachiroptera,' pi. vi. fig. 4, which is drawn 

 from one of the cotypes of Ft. temmincl-i(no. 496-i) and on the plate 

 (which was printed off in Peters's time) rightly marked with this 

 name, is in the letterpress (p. 31) by ilatschie referred to as 

 J^t. petersi. 



lienun-JiS. — The unusually pale, silvery colour of the fur, which 

 on spreading shows strongly contrasting seal-brown bases to the 

 hairs, the unstriped head, the delicately built skull with very large 

 orbits, and weak dentition, are tiie most conspicuous diagnostic 

 characters of this species. It has close relatives in the Bismarck 

 Archipelago (Ft. capistratus, head striped) and the Gilolo group 

 (Ft. personatus, head striped, teetli much reduced). Extcrnallj-, in 

 general aspect. Ft. temminclci is rather similar to the small pale- 

 coloured forms of the IH. hypomdanus group (particularly Ft. 

 (/riaeus) ; these latter are readily distinguished by their larger skull, 

 bioader rostrum (lachrymal width greater than orbital diameter), 

 licavier dentition, and naked tibiae. — Of the two Timor specimens 

 catalogued below, one, an adult male (originally mounted), is much 

 faded b}' exposure 1o light (skull like that of Amboina and Ceram 

 specimens, teeth defective), the other is so young as to be scarcely 

 ideiititialile Avith certaintv. 



a. Yg. ad. sk. ; skull. Ceram. Piu-chased (Frank). | 4!^ ^ 3^/.' 



/'. c^ ad. sk. ; skull. Timor. Purchased (Frank). 58.11. 18.2. 



C-. o jiiv. sk. : skull. :E. Timor (Dr. A. B. Tomes Coll. 7.1.1.250. 



JVu/hice). 



62. Pteropus capistratiis, I'et. 

 Fteropns cajristratus, Dobson, Cat. Chir. B. if. p. 30. 



Ptevopus capistratus, Fefe>:% MB. Akad. Jierlhi, ]876, p. ;31G, witii 

 plate (animal) (New Ireland) : Duhi^on. F. Z. S. 1877, p. 110 (Duke 

 of York I.) ; id.. Cat. Chir. B. M. p. .39 (1878 : Duke of York I.) ; 

 id., P. Z. 8. 1878, p. 315 (Duke of York I.) : Trouemirt, Rev. i)- 

 May. Zool. (3) vi. p. 20-5 (1879 : New Ireland ; Duke of York I. : 

 New Britain) ; Peters &: Doria, A nn. Miis. Civ. Gmora. ,\vi. p. ()90 

 (1881: Duke of York I.); Jcntink, Cat. Si/st. Mainm. p. 140 

 ( 1888 : New Britain ) ; binder, Forsckutigsrevie' Gazelle,' iii. p. 244, 

 pi. i. ("animal) (1889) ; Trouessart, Cat. Mamm. i. p. 79 (1897 : 

 New Ireland ; Duke of York I. : New Britain); Matsr/iie,Met/a- 

 </*(>. pi. ii. figs. 1, 2 (animal), pi. iii. tigs. 3 «, :'>/>, 3 r, 3d (.skull) 

 ( 1899: New Ireland): Miller, Fatn. ^(rei/. 7/^/C.y, pp. .5(5 (footnote), 

 ;"^8 (1907); Elliot, Cat. Manvn. Field Col. Mvs. p. 491 (1907- 

 Duke of York I.). 



Fti'ropus (Sericonycteris) capistratiis, Matschie, Mef/achir. p. ."32 

 ( 1899 : New Ireland : Duke of Yorlc I.: New Britain) ; 'J'rfiiegstni , 

 Cat. .Mamm., Suppl. p. 01 (lliOi: New Ir<daii(l ; Dukn of Ycik 1.; 

 New Britain). 



