390 PTEKOPUS MArP.OTIS. 



and relative lengtli the ears recall tlioso of Ft. fjig inteus, vainpi/rxs, 

 and their allies ; the general style ot the colour ot" the fur is similar 

 to that of Pf. mKriannus (and its Polynesian allies), Pt. chnjsauclten, 

 and Pt. cons^ncillatus. 



79. Pteropiis macrotis, Pet. 



Ptero2>us macrotis (pt.), Dobson, Cat. Chir. B. M. p. 43. 



Pteropus macrotis, Peters, MB. AJ.nd. Berlin, 1867 (27 INIay), 

 p. 327 (Biiru, errore) ; Doh^oti, Cat. Chir. B. M. p. 43 (pt.) 

 (1878: Aril Is.); Trouessart, Jier. <$■ Mag. Zool. (3) vi. p. 205 

 (pt.) (1879: Aru); Peters <^- Doria, Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova, xvi. 

 p. 690 (pt.) (1881 : Am) ; Jentink, Cat. Ost. Mamm. p. 254 

 (1887 : Wokiim) ; id.. Cat. Si/st. 3famm. p. 141 (1888 : Wokam) ; 



'■ Trouessarf, Cat. Mamm. i. p. 79 (pt.) (1897 : Am) ; Heller, Ahh. 



■■' Mus. Dresden, vi. no. 8, p. 4 (pt.) (1897 : Aru) ; Willink, Knt. 



Tijd. Xederl. Ind. Ixv. p. 274 (pt.) (1905: Bum, errore; Wokam). 



( Pteropus (Spectrum) macrotis, Matschic, Meyaehir. p. 23, pi. vi. 



, fias. 2, 2rt, ih (skull) (1899: Aru); Trouessart, Cat. Mamm., 



., .SV/;jr7/. p. 52(1904: Aru). 



Pteropus insignis, Rosenberq, Beis. Zuidoostereil. p. 31 (1867 : 

 Wokam); id., Malay. Arch. p. 360 (1878 : Wokam). 



Diagnosis. — Similar to Pt. epidanas, but in every respect smaller. 

 Forearm 121 mm. H<ib. Aru Is, 



Size (type). — Forearm 121 mm., against 136-141 in Pt. cjm- 

 Itirius ; upper tooth-row, c-m-, 19-8 mm., against 21 "7-22. For 

 details see pp. 400 and 401. 



Colour (type). — Considerably faded. The colour Avas described 

 by Peters (1867, I. s. c), when the type had been mounted for not 

 more than two years, as follows : — Back and underparts blackish 

 brown; occiput and mantle line yellow, centre of mantle tinged with 

 orange. Crown dark brown, with a narrow pale stripe above the 

 eyes and two pale spots on forehead. 



Measurements. On p]). 400, 401. 



Specimen examinecl. One, the type of the species and of Pt. 

 insifjnis. 



Bange. Aru Islands (Wokam). 



T)ipe in the Leyden Museum. 



Pt. macrotis, Peters, 1867; and Pt. insvjms, Ilosenberg, 1867. — 

 Type of Pt. mrtcrotis, a mounted adult female, skull sejiarate 

 (posterior portion incomi»lete), obtained in Wokam, 7 April, 1 865, by 

 Rosenberg. Type locality erroneously stated by Peters to be Buru. 

 Peters's measurement of the forearm, viz. 112 mm., must be a 

 slip or misprint ; the actual lengtli is 121. Skull of type figured 

 in ' ilegachiroptera des Berliner Museums' [l. s. r.). — The same 



