rTEROPTTs ociTi.Anis. 331^ 



'''. c^ ad. sk. ; Cooktown.N.K. Queens- 1[. C. Kobinson, Esq. 5 SO 1 

 fikull. liind ; 8 July, 1899. [P ] i ■ ■ . . 



t. cJad. sk.; Fitzroy I.. >-.E. Queens- Vny. H.M.S. -Rattle- / 60.7 L'O 56 

 ''«""• land ; June, 1848, snake.' | :,0.9!6.16. ' 



( Ti/pe of species.) 



75. Pteropns ocularis, Fet. 

 Pleropns alecto (pt.), Dobson, Cat. Chir. B. M. p. 56. 

 Pteropus ocularis, id., op. cit. p, 62. 



Pteropus ocularis, Peterg, MB. Akad. Berlin, 1867 (27 Mav) n S^r 

 (Ceram); Dohson Cat. Chir. B. M. p. 62 (1878: Ceram); 

 Trouessart Her^. ^ May Zool. (3) vi. p. 203 (1879: Ceram) 

 Thomas, 1. f '^. 1888, p. 471, footnote (remarks on tvpe 

 rroue^mr, Cat. Mamm i p. 82 (1897: Ceram); Maischie, 

 Megachir pi. iv. figs, o, 6 (skull) (1899 : Ceram). 



■o']"/iSr''n"™\^'-^P°™^'*'°''' ^- o^^Jaris, Matr.chie, Megachir. 

 P' rt ^/lom ' ^'''■*™)- "■ ocularis 7/mm«;V, C«<. Jf «,«,«., ,%»»/. 

 p. .).i(i904: Ceram). ^' 



^^nQ^A'" "^y'^"^e"sis mr. cerameiLsis, ft-«y, r«^ il/o«^. &■<:. p. 105 

 (lo/O: Ceram). ^ ^ 



Pteropus alecto (pt., nee Temm.), Dohson, Cat. Chir B M xs bl 

 specimen g (1878 : Ceram) ; Trouessart, Rev. ^ Mag. ZooL (3) 

 VI. p. 202 (18/9: Cerain): id., Cat. MammX p. 82 (1897- 

 Ceram). ^ \ ^t . 



Pteropus chrysauchen (pt., ,uc Pet.), Willinlc, Nat. Tiid Nederl 

 Ind. Ixv. p. 273 (190o : Ceram). •' ^^^'^'■'^• 



Diarjmsis. -Similar to Pt. consplcillatus, but much smaller, and 

 with relatively somewhat smaller ears. General colour blackish 

 above and beneath, with ochraceous-buff mantle and sides of neck 

 and broad ciimamon or cinnamon-rufous spectacles. Forearm 

 13o mm. Hah. Ceram. 



SlcuH and teUh.—SimW&T in general shape to those of Pt. con- 

 spiaUatus, but much smaller. See measurements p 38.3 

 ^ars.- Comparatively smaller than in the allied species Pt 

 chrysauchen and conspicillatus, and tip more rounded off 



/W.—Length, back about 13, mantle 13, bellv 11 mm. Closelv 

 adpressed on back. Distribution of fur as in 'the allied species"; 

 forearm and tibia naked; a narrow line of hairs on upper side of 

 lutertemoral along proximal half of tibia. 



CVom;- (type adult male).-Back and rump uniform seal- 

 brown. Chin, throat, foreneck, breast, belly, and flanks blackish 

 seal-brown (darker than back), slightly and r"ather inconspicuouslv 

 sprinkled with glo.ssy silvery white or buffv hairs.— Mantle rich 

 ochraceous-buff approaching orange-buff, passing into buff on sides 

 ot neck, shoulder region, and occiput, whore it is mixed with 

 cinnamon.— A broad ring of cinnamon round eyes. Vertex 

 blackish seal-brown, forming a transverse band in "front of ears 

 continued forward in a narrow median line to muzzle, and down- 

 ward over temporal region to throat, where it merges into the 

 general seal-brown colour of underparts. 



.\n immature male in the British ^fuseum (tvpp of Pt m,,sohnsi< 



