4(i4 DOBSONIA MOLtCCENSIS.' 



point. The male is described as having "a small but diauiict 

 gular sac secretiug a waxy substance"; as no Fruit-bat is known 

 to possess a gular sac, the statement is probably due to some error 

 of observation. The " strong vermiform integumentary fold from 

 over the clavicle to the back of the neck," referred to by De Vis as 

 another distinctive character of this species, is evidently the occipito- 

 pollicalis muscle, a cutaneous muscle which in alcoholic bats, 

 Megachiroptera as well as Microchiroptera, owing to contraction 

 of the integument often shows in strong relief on the sides of the 

 neck. 



liemarks. — Though geographically widely separated, B. exoletn 

 (Celebes) and pannietensis are very closely related. The broad 

 intervening area is occupied by the allied but much larger B, moluc- 

 cetms (Amboina group and Aru Islands) and B. magna (New 

 (luinea). 



R. h. 1 juv., 1 ad. sks. ; Kiriwina ; 15 Feb., A, S. Meek [0.]. 96.11.5.6,7. 



' skulls. 15 May, 1895. 



■ c. 2 ad. al. ; skull. Kiriwina. A. S. Meek [0,1. 96.11.5.8. 



. d. 5 imm. al. ; skull, Fergusscju I. A. 8. Meek [C.I. 95.5.8.4. 



;'<-, Imm. sk.; skull. Fergusson I. A. S. Meek [O.J. 96.11.5,19. 



4. Dobsonia moluccensis, Q. Sf G. 



Cephalotes peroni (pt.), Dobson, Oat. Chir. B. M. p. 91. 



> Ilypodernia moluccense, Qtioi/ ^i" Gaimard, Voy. ' Astrolabe,' Zool. 



i. p. 86, Atl. pi, xi. (auimal ; skull ; e-vterual sexual organs ; 



.stomach) (1830: Ainboioa) ; Lesson, Hist. Nat. Mamin. {Cotnpl. 



Biiffon), V. p. 09 (1836). 



Pteropus moluccensis, Oken, Allg. Natuvg. vii. Abth. ii. p. 990 



(1838). 

 Cephalotes peroni ««»'. moluccensis, Lesson, N. Tabl. R. An.,Mamni. 

 p. 15 (1842). 

 :. ,, Dobsonia moluccensis, K. Andersen, Ann. S)' May. iV. H. (8) iv, 

 I pp. 529, 533 (1009 : characters; affinities), 



Cephalotes peroni (pt., mx JE. Geoff.), Temminck, Mon. Mamm. ii. 

 p. 106, pi. XXXV. iig. 7 (head of specimen g, Amboina, Leyden 

 Mus,) (1837: Amboina); S. MiUler, Tetmninck^s Nat. Gesch. 

 Ned. Oterz. Be&., Zoogd. pp. 20, 22, 59 (1839-44: Amboina; 

 habits) ; Gray, List Ost. Spec. B, M. p. 10 (1847) ; id., Zvol. 

 ' Samarang,' Vert. p. 13 (pt.) (1849) ; Gerrurd, Cat. Bones Mantvi. 

 B. M. p. 59, skull a (1862) ; Fiiisch. Neu-Gidma, p. 150 (1865: 

 Amboina) ; Peters, MB. Akad. Berlin, 1867, p. 871 (Amboina) ; 

 Fitzinger, SB. Akad. Wieii, Ix. Abth, i. p. 647 (1870) ; Bohson, 

 Cat. Chir. B. M. p. 91 ( 1878 : Bum ; Coram) ; Troues.iart, Rev. S,' 

 ' Mag. Zool. (3) vi. p. 208, n. 3.30 (1879) ; Peters ^' Doria, Ann. 



Mus. Civ. Genom,x\'uf. 691 (1881: Aru Is.) ; Jentink, Cat. Ost. 

 Mamm. p. 267 (pt.) (1887; Amboina; Aru); id., Gat. Syst. 

 ilfamm. p. 1.^6 (pt.) (1888: Burn; Amboina; Aru); Trouessart, 

 Cut. Mamm. i. p. 87, n. 470 (1897) ; Heller, Abh. Mas, Dresden, 

 vi. n. 8, p. 4 (1897). 

 Ilypoderma peroni (pt.), Schinz, Syst. Vers, Sday. i. p. 137, n. 1 



(1844) ; Giehel, Sdug. p. 992 (1855). 

 Cephalotes palliatus (pt.), Matschie, Megachir.p,87 (1899; Aru); 

 Trouessart, Cat. Mamm., Snppl. p. 64, n. 55^ (1904) .; Willink, 

 :,.. Nat Tijd. Ned. Ind. )xv. p. 278 (1905). 



