442 STYLOCTENICJI. 



three-fourths ; distal fourth, metatarsus, and phalanges naked save 

 for some thinly scattered hairs. 



Colour. — Glossy blackish or blackish seal-brown above ; base of 

 fur not differing. Entire underside neaily typical seal-brown (a 

 tinge slightly paler and less glossy than that of back), sprinkled 

 with some longer shiny blackish hairs; no trace of drab on nnder- 

 parts. Individual variation inconspicuous; females not differing 

 appreciably in colour from males, nor immature individuals from 

 adult. 



Measurements. On pp. -140, 441. 



ISpeoimens excunined. Tliose registered below. 



liaiu/e. East Solomon Islands ; as yet only recorded from 

 Guadalcanar. 



Ti/jye in collection. 



a, h. -2 S ad- ^1- ; skull Ada, Guadalcanar. C. M. Woodford, 88.1.5.9. 10. 



of a. E.sq. [C.]. 



(SS.l.o.y : Ti/pe of species.) 

 c-e. 2^'^-' 2 J"^- '^'•> Guadalcanar. C.M.Woodford, 89.4.o.l-ii. 



(5 yg. ud. sk. ; Esq. [C.]. 



j- skuUs. 



- i'^~ o-m' I " •>^ ■... 



a 



I T<; 7. STYLOCTENIUII, Matschie. 



Ptcropiis (pt.), Dobsou, Cat. Chir. B. M. p. 15. ^ 



1899. Styluctenium, Matsckie, Meyachir. p. 33 S. wallacei. 



Ptevopus (pt.), Gray, P. Z. S. 186G, p. (« ; Pefers, MB. Akad. 



Beriin, 18G7, p. 329: Gray, Cat. Monk. ^-c. p. Ill (1870); 



Dobson, I. s. c. (1878). 

 Styloctenium, Miller, Fam. S^ Gen. Bats, p. Q>'2 (1907). 



Diagnosis. — Allied to Pteropus, but i^ and m, wanting, incisors 

 slender, cylindrical, acutely pointed at tips, canines short and thick, 

 and molariform teeth subcircular or oval in outline with low and 

 smoothly rounded ridges and cusps. Cranial and external cliaracters 

 Pteropiue. Size as the smallest species of Pteropus (forearm 90- 

 90 mm.). Apparently confined to Celebes. 



SIcidl (tig. '2'6). — Perfectly Pteropine, differing only in trivial 

 characters from skulls of Pteropus lomhocensis, temminclci, and 

 caiiistralus. Erain-case conspicuously deflected posteriorly, alveolar 

 line projected backward passing througli middle of supraoccipital. 

 nostrum short and broad ; length from front of orbit to tip of 

 nasals less than one-third of total length of skull ; breadth across 

 crowns of canines not much less than across lower edges of lachrymal 

 foramina. Orbits large, diameter subeqnal to lachrymal breadth ; 

 front of orbit above front of m' or diastema p''-m'. Zygoma slender, 

 without postorbital processes ; upper postorbital processes slender, 

 not reaching much more than halfway to zygoma; sagittal crest 

 fully developed but low. Coronoid rather high but narrow antero- 



