834 PTEROPUS OIG,VXTEUS LEOCOCRPHALTJS. 



pp. 2-3(1874: Sibsagar, Assam) ; id., Mon. As. Qhir. pp. 188- 

 189 (1876 : Sibsagar) ; J. Anderson, Cat. Manim. Ind. Mm. pt. i. 

 p. 102 (1881: Sib<ag-ar). 



Pteropu-i rubricoUis {np.c E. Geoff".], [" McClelland, List nf objects of 

 Natural Historij collected in Assam "' ; not found ; ? MS.] ; Ogilby, 

 Madras Journ. Lit. ,^- S-i. xii. no. 28, p. 146* (1840: Akun) 

 (iioni. nud.); Grni/ {e.v McClelland), Cat. Hodgson Coll. p. 3 

 (1846 : in list of .'^ynouyins of "P^. edwardti'"). 



Pteropus edwardsi inec E. Geoff.), Grai/, List Mamm. B. M. p. 36 

 (pt.) (1813: Nepal) ; Bbith, J. A. S. B. xii. p. 176 (pt.) (1843: 

 Nepal); Walker, Calcntta Journ. N. II. iii. p. 2oo (1843: 

 Assam) ; Grai/, Cat. Hodgson Coll. p. 3 (1846 : Tarai) ; id., 

 Lift Ost. Speeim. '^. 10 (pt.) (1847: Nepal); Waijner, Schreber's 

 jSa'<(7.,6WjO/j/. V. p. 595 (pt.) (1853-55 : Nepal; Assam); Gerrard, 

 Cat'. Bones Mamm. B.M. p. 55 (pt.) (1862: Nepal) ; Gray, Cat. 

 Hodgson Cull. 2 ed. p. 2 (1833); Jerdon, Mamm. India, p. IS 

 (pt.) (1867: Burma). 



Pteropus edwardsi vel medius, Sterndale, Mamm. India, p. 37 (pt.) 

 (1884: Burma). 



Pteropus edulis (pt., nee E. Geoff.), Wagner, Schrebers Siiuj., Suppl. 

 V. p. 594 (185.3-55: Assam). 



Pteropus jafiganteus, Glover M. Allen, Bull. Mas. Comp. Znol. Harv. 

 Coll. Iii. no. 3, p. 28, pi. — . figs. 2, 4 (skull) (1908: Kooloo 

 Valley). 



Characters. — Similar to Pt. g. giganteus in skuU, dentition, and 

 external characters (incl. colour of fur), but fur decidsdly longer, 

 softer, and less closely adpressed on back. Loudest hairs, back 

 15-18, mantle 18-21, "belly 16-20 mm. 



Specimens e.vamined. Twelve, in the collection of the Briti.sh 

 Museum, including the cotypes of Pt. leuaocephalus. 



Range. Kooloo ; Nepal ; Assam ; Cacliar ; Manipur ; ? Arrakan ; 

 ? Pegu'. 



Got jj pes in collection. 



Pteropus leiicocephalu^, Hodgson ; 1835. — Type locality, Nepal 

 (Katmandu) Valley. In the colour of the head, neck, and under- 

 parts this race is similar to Pt. g. giganteus (Dobson's statement. 

 Cat. Chir. B. M. p. 52, that Hodgson's cotypes are paler than 

 specimens from the Peninsula, is not borne out by the series in the 

 collection). 



Pteropus assamensis, McClelland ; 1 839. — Based on two specimens 

 collected in Assam by Dr. John McClelland and formerly (see 

 Horsfield"s introductory note to McClellaud's paper, I. s. c.) in the 

 East India Company's Museum at the India House ; the cotypes 

 may have been lost ; they are not among the specimens registered 

 by Horsfield in his ' Catalogue of the Mammals of the India 

 Museum' (1851), nor among tho Mammals transferred from that 

 Museum to the National Collection in 1879. McClelland's descrip- 

 tion admits, however, of no doubt as to the identification of Pt. assam- 

 ensis (similar to " Pt. edulis'' i=gigaateus'] " in habit, distribution 

 of tint, and in the form of tho ears," but fur longer, softer, and 



* Misspelt Pt. riihicalli.<. 



