STTLOCTKXirir WAT.LACF.T, 445 



1. Styloctenium wallacsi, Gray. 

 Ptcro/ms luaUacci, Dobson, Cat,. Chir. B. M. p. 40. 



Pteropiis wiillacL'i, frrai/, P. Z. S. 18GG, p. 65, fij>'. ] (head) (Macassar, 

 cJ jiiv.) ; /(/., Cat. M<»ik. S,-c. i. p. HI, fig. 21 A (head) (1870: 

 same spocimen) ; l)(>hson, Cut. Cliir. B. At. p. 40 (1S78 : same 

 speciiueii) ; Troucsmrt, liev. tx Mmj. Zool. {'■>} vi. p. 205 (1878) ; 

 Jcntink, Notes Leyd. Mus. v. p. 172 (188.S: Amuraiig, one adult) ; 

 w/., (Jut. Sj/st. Maiuni. p. 140 (1888: same specimen); ? Hicksnn, 

 JSaiitralisf in N. C'clf/jcs, p. 84 (1880: Talisse) ; Trouessart, 

 Cat. Mamm. i. p. 79 (lsi)7) ; A. B. Meyer, AM. Mm. Dremhn, 

 vii. no. 7, p. 5. pi. iv. lig. 1 (col. lip", of animal) (1899: Tomohou). 



Stylojtouiiuu waliacM, Mata-hie, Me.(iiicli.ir. p. o 5, pi. iv. figs. 1-4 

 ■(sliull: 2 yg. aduU, Minaha.ssa) (1899: Lotta ; Mt. Masarang ; 

 Tomohon) ; Trouessart, Cat. Mamni., Sitpy/.]). •')■') (IdOi) ; Wil- 

 linh, Nut. Tijd. Nedrrl. Ind. ixv. p. 275 (1905) ; Miller, Fam. Sf 

 Gen. Bats, p. 62 (1907). 



I'tfi'opu.s persuiiatus (pt., nee Temm.), Peters, MB. Al;ad. Berlin, 

 1867, p. .'329 (type of .species considered the youug of Pt. 

 jjersonatus). 



Forearm about 90-96 mm. 



Ears. — As in Pteropns temmiDclrl and lomliocens'is : moilcrate 

 (nearly reaching eye), exposed, rather broadly rounded o£E above; 

 nuked except at base posteriorly. 



Fur. — Soft and silky; directed posteriorly br.t not closely ad- 

 pressed on back ; everywhere iriters])ersed with conspicuously longer 

 semierect hairs. A.pproxiniato length, back and mantle 7-9 mm. 

 (fur) and 12-13 (longer hairs), belly 7-8 (fur) and 11-12 (longer 

 hairs). Width of furred area of back about ^5-40 mm. (skins). 



Eorearm clothed with rather long adjiressed hairs above nearly 

 to carpal extremity ; tibia densely furred jibove, the hair extending 

 backward in a thin line along upperside of nietatars\is ; shoit 

 scattered hairs on toes ; thinly spread hair on the whole of the 

 lateral membrane between fifth digit and body. Underside of 

 forearm and tibia covered for proximal halt ; hairing on underside 

 oti antebrachial and lateral membranes slightly thicker than iu 

 typical species of Pteropus. 



Cohxr (B. M. series). — General colour of back and rump whitish 

 grey slightly tinged with cream-buff on iorearms and with pale 

 cinnamon on tibiie (lightest extreme : 97.1.2.4); or essentially the 

 same colour but conspicuously washed on the whole of the back, 

 rump, and tibiie with light cinnamon (99.1(t.l,2) ; or nearly uni- 

 form warm cinnamon (darkest extreme : 66.2.13.11). An elongate 

 patch of white hair on each shoulder along antebrachial membrane. 

 Concealed base of fur of upper.side always strongly contrasting seal- 

 brown. — Throat, I'oreneck, breast, belly, and underside of tibice a 

 light tinge of cinnamon (golden buffy cinnamon), generally deepest 

 on median tract of underside, jialest on sides of breast and flanks. 

 Concealed base of lur seal-brown. — Occiput, region round base of 

 ears, mantle, and sides of neck whitish or creamy-white with con- 

 ccided seal-brown bases to the hairs. Head, nearly as far back as 



