DOBSOXIA MOLUCCKXSrs. ^(5,") 



Dobsonia ]ialiaU (pt.), Jenlinh, Notes Leyd. Mm. xxviii. p. ](i() 



(1906: Euru ; Amboiu-i; Aru). 

 ? Xvf.timene palliatus, Elliot, Uut. Mamm. Field Col. Mui. p. 494, 



11. 870 (1907 : Moluccas). 



IHaanosis. — Allied to D. exoleta (Celebes), but mucli larger, and 

 with relatively much heavier dentition. Eoreann 13:i-5-141 mm. 

 Udh. Amboina group and Aru Islands. 



Dentition. — ^Individual teeth absolutely and relatively much 

 he ivior than in D. exoleta (see measurements p. 481), but scarcely 

 differing in structure. Median surface-ridge absent in p*" (nine 

 skulls examined) ; generally obsolescent (barely detectable on close 

 examination) in m', but sometimes developed as a low ridge along 

 posterior third of surface ; generally absent or (juitc rudimentary 

 in ni|, sometimes represented by a distinct tubercle; generally well 

 developed, though low, in m„ and running through entire length of 

 tooth, rarely reduced to a small central tubercle. 



Colour. — c? ad. sldn. Burn : Back of neck between hair-brown 

 and bistre. Head dark bistre. Entire underside dull drab faintly 

 washed with fawn, and tinged with golden olive-buff on centre of 

 breast and belly and on hairs on underside of membranes. — A 

 young adult individual from Ceram (skin) is similar in colour, 

 though on the whole distinctly paler. 

 Measurements. On pp. 477, 479, 481. 



iSjyecimens examined. iSixteen, in the collections of the Leyden 

 (eleven), Berlin (one), Paris (one), and British Museums, from" the 

 following localities: — Buru (two, skull of one), Amboina (six, 

 skulls of two; including type of species), Ceram (one, with skull), 

 Aru Islands (six, pkulls of four), and uncertain locality (one 

 skull). 



lian<je. Amboina group (Buru ; Amboina; Ceram) and Aru 

 Islands. A mounted adult female in the Leyden Museum ticketed 

 Samao, S. ifiiller ('• Cephalotes peroni" qq, skull in. sitii), is at 

 least externally indistinguishable from D. moliKcen.fis ; if there is 

 no mistake in the locality (S. Miiller collected also in Amboina), 

 the range of this species probably extends to the Timor group. 



7\i/pe, in the Paris Museum, an immature (not quite full-grown) 

 mounted specimen of doubtful sex, skull extracted, fur faded ; 

 recent register number, 118 B ; marked on underside of stand 

 •' //ifpoderma Pera?i/« (Geoff.); Q,uoy et Gaimard, 1 829 ; d'Amboine; 

 no. de Voyage 223 ; figure dans la Zoologie du Voyage de 

 I'Astrolabe." The skull of this specimen appears to be number 

 A 6753 of the Galeries of the Museum d'auatomie comparee ; 

 written on skull (balf efl'aced) " Amboiiie, Quoy et Gaimard," and 

 in a different handwriting (all tlie bracketed characters completely 

 effaced) ^^ II[ypo<le\rm[a] [moluc]ceiise," and perhaps by the same 

 hand " CepJi. Peroni, n. 2." The skull is young, fronto-parietal 

 suture quite distinct, no sagittal crest; occipital region wanting, 

 dentition complete. In tbe ilS. Catalogue of the Galeries this 

 skull is stated to have been figured in Blainville's ' Osteographie,' 

 pL vi., presumably because Blain villa him-seU" says (text. p. 100) 



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