418 AC'EBOnON MACKI.OTI. 



Colour. — British ]\ru9cum scries, males and females, adult and 

 slio-htly immature: Back and rump deep mars-brown, sometimes 

 approaching vandyck-brown or burnt- umber, generally thinly, some- 

 times (one of two specimens from Luwu, 94.7.4.3) very tliickly, 

 mixed with golden buffy.— Breast, belly, and Hanks glossy yellowish 

 buffy or warm golden buffy, this colour confined to the tips of the 

 hairs ; base of fur vandyck-brown.— Mantle, sides of neck, and fore- 

 neck buffy or golden buify, lighter than breast, shading to nearly 

 cream-^buff on shoulders, occiput, and crown, in the latter place 

 somewhat mixed with dark brown hairs; extreme base of pale- 

 coloured hairs dark brown. Glandular neck-tufts (in males only) 

 rich tawny at base, tips of hairs not much differing from surrounding 



fur. Sides of head mixed huffy and dark brownish, sprinkled with 



long^^r silvery whitish hairs. Chin and throat seal-brown, con- 

 trasting with pale foreneck, and thinly sprinkled with buffy or 

 silvery buffy hairs. 



Mea'snrements. On pp. 424, 425. 



Specimens examined. Nine, in the collections of the Berlin (type ; 

 and 4753, 4754, Sula Mangoli), Leyden (o, 6, with skulls), and 

 British Museums. 



lianqe. Celebes generally (Minahassa : Mnsarang and Tomohon ; 

 Gorontalo ; Luwu ; Macassar) ; Salayer ; Sula Mangoli. 



Tyx^e in the Berlin Museum. 



P'tero/ms ceMensis, Pet. ; 1867.— Type locality, " Celebes " ; 

 type, adult mounted specimen, skull separate (figured in Megachir. 

 Berl. Mus. pi. iv. fig. 7), collected by lloscnberg, acquired from the 

 Leyden Museum, Berl. Mus. 4012. The originals of Megachir. 

 Berl. Mus. pi. vi. fig. C {Pt. mackloti on plate) appear to be two 

 skulls of A. celehensis from Sula Mangoli, Berl. IMus. 4753, 4754. 



liemnrl-s. — This species is readily distinguished from A. maclhli 

 and i/ilvus, which it closely resembles in colour and other external 

 characters, by its smaller skull and much weaker dentition. Ex- 

 ternally all three species show no small resemblance to the pale- 

 coloured phase of Fteropus caniceps. 

 a [21 imni. Tomohon, Mi iiabassa; Drs. Sarasin [G. & E.]. O'J.lO.l.S. 



' 8k. : skull'. Mai-ch, 1894. 



h,c. (S ad., $ Luwu, Celebes. Prof. Max Webei- [C. 94.7.4.2,3. 



ad. al. ; & E.]. 



fZ. J''yg^'ad. Salayei-L; Nov. 1895. A. Everelt [C.]. 97.1.3.2. 



sk. ; skull. 



2. Acerodon mackloti, Temm. 



Plerojms macJdoti (pt.), Pobson, Cat. Chir. B. M. p. 6G. 



(Synonyms under the subspecies.) 



Z)wr/)iosw.— Similar to A. celehensis, but with much larger skull 

 and heavier dentition. External dimensions averaging larger: 

 forearm 139-15H mm. Hah. Timor, Elores, Alor. 



Sl-uJJ and teeth. — Though small individuals of A. maclioti are 



