PTEROPUS VAMPYEUS ViMPYRl'S. 351 



■ teeth), pi. — . (aiiiuial) (lb-'4 : Java ; habits) ; Lesson, Man. 



Mamiii. p. 108, no. 270 (1827 : Java) ; Des7narest, Diet. Sci. JSat. 



xlvi. p. 3o8 (1827 : Java) ; Is. Geoffroy, Diet. Class. d'Hist. Nat. 



xiv. p. 699 (1828: Java) ; Lesson, Hist. Nat. Manim. (Compl. 



Bvffo7i) V. p. 52 (1836: Java) ; Layaid, Cat. S. Afr. Mus. p. 18 



(pt.) (1861 : Java). 

 Eunycteris phaiops (pt , nee Pteropus phaiops, Tennn.), Gray, Cat. 



Monk. Si-c. p. 113 ^1870 : Java). 

 Pteropus lielaarti (pt.), Gray, Cat. Monk. 8fc. p. 104 (skull, not skin) 



(1870). 

 ? Pteropus funereus {nee Temm.), F. Meyer, Zool. Garten, xv. p. 238 



(1874: breeding in confinement). 

 Pteropus pteronotus, Dohson, Cat. Chir. B. M. p. 48 (June, 1878 : 



Java) ; Trouessart, Rev. S: May. Zool. (3) vi. p. 205 (1879 : Java) ; 



Jentiiik, Cat. ISyst. Matnni. p. 144 (1888 : Bezuki, Java) ; Troues- 

 sart, Cat. Mamm. i. p. 80 (1897 : Java). 



Diagnosis. — Similar to Pt. v. malaccensis, but averaging con- 

 siderably larger. Bkull, total length 82-91 mm. Forearm 208- 

 220 mm. Hab. Java. 



Colour, — A series of twenty-two skins, males and females (adult 

 and immature), collected by Mr. Guy C. Shortridge in 1907 and 

 1908 in various places of Western Java shows no appreciable 

 difference in colour from, and very nearly the same amount of 

 individual variation as, Pt. v. malaccensis. In some specimens the 

 back and rump are thinly, iu others very heavily, sprinkled with 

 greyish-white hairs ; the dark element in the colour of the back is 

 in some specimens blackish or blackish seal-brown, in others con- 

 spicuously tinged with, in others again nearly or entirely replaced 

 by, vandyck-brown or dark russet or cinnamon-russet. Head, 

 neck, and underparts varying as in malaccensis. 



A half-grown young male (same collector; 9.1.5.39) has the 

 htad, back, rump, and the whole of the underside from chin to 

 interfemoral deep blackish, with same })ale sprinkling on back and 

 rump, and with the colour of the mantle darkened to seal-brown 

 tinged with chocolate. This is the only melanistic specimen I have 

 seen from Java. A series of adult and immature specimens from 

 the same spot (Tjilatjap) are perfectly normal in colour, as is also 

 a young male from Tasikmalaja, Preanger (9.1.5.45), of apparently 

 quite or very nearly the same age as the melanistic one. There 

 can be little doubt, therefore, that in a large series from Java a 

 small percentage (probably less than 5 per cent.) will prove to 

 be melanistic, this being also in accordance with the geographical 

 habitat of this race, bordered as it is to the west (Sumatra) by 

 the bright-mantled Pt. v. malaccensis, to the east (Eali, Lombok) 

 by the very dark-coloured Pt. v. pluton. 



Measurements. On pp. 354, 355. 



Specimens examined. Twenty-seven, in the collections of the 

 Leyden (one) and British Museums, including one cotype of the 

 species and one of Pt. kelaarti, and the type of Pt. pteronotus. 



Range. Java. 



Cnfype in collection (the other cotype not in existence). 



