398 PTtROPVS l-OMOCEPHALC'*. 



Lunds Univ. Arsukr. xii. p. 16 & aeq. (1878 : milk-teetli) ; Tivues- 

 sart, liev. 4" Maff. Zool. (8) vi. p. 204 (1879 : E. Australia) ; 

 Moseley, Notes Naturalist ' Challenger,' p. 268 (1879 : N. S. Wales ; 

 habits) ; J. Anderson, Cat. Mamm. Lid. Miis. pt. i. p. 99 (1881 : 

 Australia) ; Ledie, Bronn's Thierr. vi. Abth. 5, Lief. 28. pi. xciv. 

 fi.r. 8 (femur) (1885) ; CoUett, Zool. Jahrb. ii. p. 842 (1887 : 

 IVlacliay, Queen,*land) ; Jentink, Cat. Osteol. Maimn. p. 253 

 (1887: N. S. Wales); id. Cat. Syst. Mamm. p. 139 (1888: 

 Cape York ; N. S. Wales : Tasmania) ; Eiise, Morph. Jahrb. xvi. 

 p. 30 & seq. (1890: anatomy of heart); Ogilby, Cat. Avstr. 

 Mamm. p. 78 (1892: Australia); Lydekker, R. Nat. Hist. i. 

 p. 256 (1893-94 : habits) ; Broom, Proc. Livn. Soc. N. S. Wales 

 (2) X. p. 481 (1895: premaxillas) ; P. L. Sclater, List An. Zool. 

 8oc. bard. 9 ed. p. 102 (1890) ; Trouessart, Cat. Mamm. i. p. 78 

 (1897 : E. & S. Australia ; Tiismania) ; Lucas, Proc. R. Soc. 

 Queensl. xii. p. 51 (1897 : Queensland) ; Matschie, Meyachir. 

 pi. vii. fi^s. \.\a,\b (.skull) (1899 : Sidney) ; Beddard, Mamm. 

 p. 525, fig. 257 (animal) (1902); Miller, Fam. Sc Gen. Bats, 

 pp. 56 (footnote), 58 (1907) ; Elliot, Cat. Mamm. Field Col. Mvs. 

 p. 491 (1907 : Australia). 

 Pteropus (Spectrum) poliocephalus, Matschie, Meyachir. p. 21 



■ (1899: Victoria; N.S.Wales; Trobriand Is.) ; Trouessart, Cut. 



■' Mamtn., Svppl.^. 51 (1904: S.E.Australia; Tasmania; Queens- 



land ; Trobriand Is.). 



" Pteropus edwardsi (nee E. Geoff.), Powell, Zooloyist, (2) v. p. 2135 

 (1870; sudden appearance in large numbers at Sidney, 1858; 

 habits). 



Diagnosis. — Similar to Pt. epularius in skull and dentition, but 

 larger, with much longer and richer fur, and upperside of tibia 

 thickly clothed to ankle. Colour peculiar : head, back, and under- 

 parts olive-buff more or less darkened with brownish, collar tawny. 

 Size above medium : forearm about 160 mm. liab. Eastern Aus- 

 tralian coast-regions. 



SJcuU. On the whole similar to that of Pt. epularius, but con- 

 spicuously larger. Orbits as large as in Pt. epularius, front of orbit 

 above back of p^. Zygomatic arches unusually slender ; sagitta 

 crest low or undeveloped. Coronoid weak, slightly less slojjing 

 than in Pt. epularivs ; coronoid height of mandible much less than 

 c-m , even distinctly less than c-ur ; position of condyles as in 



epularius. 



Teeth. General shape of cheek-teeth as in Pt. epularius, but ra' 



relatively longer. Canines slender, crown in profile nearly straight, 

 cino-ulum narrow. Posterior basal ledges of premolars obsolescent 

 in p'' and p^ (in the young teeth sometimes faintly indicated), 

 entirely absent in p' and p^. ... 



Wuujs. Membranes about 25 mm. apart at origin from sides 



of back. , , - . 



Inierfemoral. — Extremely short or undeveloped in centre. 



j^K,._ Long, dense ; approximate length of hairs at middle of 



back 31 mm. (this measurement taken on the long blackish hairs ; 

 shorter, olive bufiy fur about 16 mm.), middle of mantle 30, 

 middle 'of belly 25 mm. Straight and directed backward, but not 

 closely adpressed on back, slightly frizzly on rump. Fur of back 



