FrEROPUS VAMPTltrs VAJIPYFU3. 



Vespertilio vampyrus, L. ; 1758. — Based piiiuarily on Linne's 

 Vespertilio cauda nulla in the seventh edition of the ' Sj'stema 

 NaturEB ' (1748), and this again solely on Saba's Canis volans 

 Ternatanus Onentalis. As pointed out by Mr. Oldfield Thomas 

 (P.Z. S. 1892, p. 315) the original of Seba's pi. Ivii.lig. 2, formerly 

 in the possession of Prof. Th. van Lidth de Jeude, is now in the 

 collection of the British Museum. This specimen, technically the 

 type of V. vampynis, L., is well preserved and easily determinable 

 as to species, but much too young to be determined as subspecies, 

 though so much can be said that it belongs to one of the bright- 

 coloured races of Ft. vampyrus. The locality given by Seba, viz. 

 Ternate, is undoubtedly wrong, if taken literally and not, as it 

 probably ought to be in this case, as synonymous with the East 

 Indian Archipelago generally ; no form of Pt. vampijnis occurs ia 

 the island of Ternate. In the whole area inhabited by the bright- 

 coloured races of Pt. vampyrus, Java would seem to be the most 

 likely place from which Seba's collector acquired this specimen, and 

 that island may therefore be fixed as the type locality of 

 Pt. vamjjyms. 



Vespertilio caninus, Bliimenbach ; 1797. — See p. 220. 



Vespertilio cela>no, Hermann ; 1804. — Type locality, Batavia, 

 Undoubtedly based on a specimen of Pt. vampyrus (with i' missing 

 on both sides, if Hermann's statement is correct). 



Vespertilio nudus, Hermann ; 1804. — " Patria ignota ; Parisiis 

 misstis." Generally put down as a synonym of Pt. vampyrus, but 

 in fact indeterminable from the descrijition. Perhaps the young, 

 with milk dentition, of some species of Pteropus, but the description 

 of the ears ("auriculas ^jan'o? et. simplices") would seem to exchide 

 Pt. vampyrus. 



Pteropus javanicns, Desraarest ; 1820. — In a footnote to his 

 description of Pf. edulis (Ann. Mus. d'Hist. ISTat. xv. p. 91 ; 1810), 

 E. Geoffroy gives an extract of a manuscript of Leschenault de la 

 Tour on the mammals of Java containing a description of a species 

 of Pteropus which Geoffroy identities with edulis. Seeing that 

 Leschenaulfs description of the colour of the Javan bat differed 

 essentially from that of Pt. edulis, as given by Geoffroy, Desmarest 

 separated the former specifically as Pt. javanlcus. That Desmarest 

 based his Pt. javairicus not on actual specimens but solely on the 

 note referred to above, is evident from the fact that his brief 

 dtscription is practically identical with that given by Leschenault. 



Pteropus l-elaarti, Gray ; 1870. — See p. 332. 



Ettnycteris 2)Ji(i'>ops, Gray ; 1870. — In Gray's Catalogue of 1870 

 (I. s. c) this name covers three species of Pteropus, viz. Pt. melano- 

 pogon (four specimens, Burn, Ceram, Goram), Pt. chrysoproctus (one, 

 Watubella I.), and Pt. v. vampyrus (one, Java). The last specimen 

 was, eight years later, by Dobson made the type of Pt. pteronotus. 



Pteropus pteronoius, Bohson ■. 1878. — Type locality, Java ; type 

 in collection. An immature specimen of Ft. v. vampyrus. . 



