rTKiiorr-j vami-vris kdims. n.")7 



Pi. fuiicrcus from Timor (Leyden Museum) is iniicli doterioratcd 

 liy c^wposure to li'^ht ; they would seem to have been liithcr unilbrm 

 d.irk above and beneath, perhaps with a slight indication of a 

 maroon-blackish or seal-brown mantle (thus perfectly in accordance 

 with Temminck's description, Mon. Mamm. ii. p. 'G4, under the 

 heading "A" : " D'un noir parfait parlout, cxceple a la niujue oii 

 regne une Icgere tcinte niarron tres fonce "). 



(-) Mantle much brighter than back: 5 juv. skin, Savu I., Aug. 

 (A. Everett); S.7.-;t).4 : Indistinguishable in colour from specimens 

 of the b'-ight-mantled races. 



Measurements. On pp. 3<^il, 3(52. 



!Sjtecim€ns examined. Four, including (lie types of I't. edaUs and 

 Pi. fuiicreus. 



Hinge. Timor; Savu Island. 

 Tl/j)e in the Paris Museum. 



Pteropu!; e<luUs, E. Geotfroy ; ISlo. — Type, an adult female, 

 obtained in Timor by Peron and Lesueur, mounted, skull in situ 

 ("Ancienne Collection," no. 7-15 </ ; new Catalogue no. 17); see 

 above, under " colour." 



Pteropusfanereus, Temminck; 1837. — In 1S37 Temmiiick divided 

 "■ }'t. tdulis" into two species, vi/., a small foim, Pt. fancreu.s, 

 sUfed to inhabit Timor, Amboina, Jiorneo, and Sumatra, and a very 

 large form, believed to be of general distribution in the East Indian 

 Archipelago, and for which he retained the name Pt. edulig. This 

 view was by no means without foundation in fact; broadly speaking, 

 Pt. fnnereus would correspond to the series of smaller races of 

 Pt. vumpi/rns {edidis, natiauc, Innensis, though Philippine specimens 

 were unknown to Temminck), Pt. edulis to the large torms of the 

 species {malarcensis, vampijriis, platon). Ijut Temminck's state- 

 ment as to the habitat of Pt. fnnereus must be modified : first, 

 Amboina must be excluded, as lying far beyond the area inhabited 

 by the Pt. vampi/rus group (it is even doubtful, if Temminck had 

 any specimens from Amboina before him ; now at least there arc 

 no '' Pt. funcreus'' from Amboina in the Leyden Museum; but 

 if he had, they may have been Pt. ch-i/sujjroctus or nielanopo-joa) ; 

 second, the specimens from .Sumatra referred by Temminck to 

 Pt. fnnereus (and examined by the present writer) are individuals 

 of Pt. V. maJaccensis which happen to be more or less below the 

 average size of that race. Fiom a modern point of view, Temminck 

 further made the technical mistake of transferring the name eduUn, 

 which by Geotfroy Mas based on one of the smaller races (the 

 Timor form), to the large form (Java, &c.), and proposing a new 

 name, fanereus, for the smaller races. C)f tlie four islands given bv 

 Temminck as habitat of his Pt. fanereas, Timor may be fixed a'a 

 tho type locality, not only because it is the first named, but also 

 because, of those four islands, it is tho only one inhabited by a 

 truly raelanistic ("/wui'j-chs ") race of this species. I't. funcreus 

 thus becomes a synonym of Pi. edulis, Geoff., and the cotvjies of 

 Junereus, as here restricted, are specimens ".'/"($ ad.) and " A ''* 

 ( J jun.) in Jentink's Cat. Syst. (p. 1-15), both mounted, skull of 

 "_'/'' extracted (Cat. Ost. p. 25'J. p) ; see abuve, under c dour. 



■■'. J juv. sk ; skull. b'avii I ; Aug. 1«!I0. A. Evrroft [C.]. P.T.Llt^.l. 



