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neck and Hanks, but the richest-coloured females very closclj- 

 approach the palest-coloured males (compare 9.1.0.119 with 114). 

 Sides of neck, foreneck, aud sides of breast varying from pale 

 tawny-olive, through russet, to a tinge between mars-brown and 

 burnt-umber (light chestnut), in most specimens only slightly con- 

 trasting with centre of breast; bright colour generally not extend- 

 ing so far backward along sides of breast as in males. Centre of 

 breast and the whole of the belly dull drab or broccoli-brown, 

 usually somewhat tinged with tawny-olive or raw-umber. Ears, 

 metacarpals, and phalanges as in males. 



Immature specimens rather similar to C. s. sphinx of correspond- 

 ing age, but on the whole darker : Back uniform dark slate-brown 

 with somewhat paler bases to the hairs ; underparts slate-grey ; 

 sides of neck with (males) or without (females) a slight wash of 

 tawny-olive. 



Measurements. On pp. 634, G37, 640. 



Specimens examined. Sixty-three, in the collections of the Leyden 

 (nineteen, including cotypes of subspecies), Paris (one, ticketed 

 C. diardi), and British Museums, from the following localities : — 

 Sumatra (four: ''Sumatra"; Silago ; Bua), Java (fifty-three: 

 "Java"; Batavia; Buitenzorg; Sukabumi ; Tasikmalaja; Tjilatjap), 

 Lombok (one), Timor (one), uncertain localities (four). 



Range. Java generally, extending west to Sumatra, east to 

 Lombok, perhaps to Timor. The single Timor specimen examined 

 is immature ; in the size of the teeth it agrees with C. s. tlttlia- 

 cheilus. In Java this form occurs together with C. hracliyotis 

 jnvanicus and C. horsfieJdi ; in Sumatra with C. h. anyulatus, C. h. 

 hracliyotis, and G. horsfieldi minor. 



Cotypes. — The original description of Pteropus tittJicecheilus was 

 based on " dcs individus de Sumatra, envoyes de Bencoulen par 

 MM. Diard et Duvaucel, une grande quantite de sujets captures a 

 Buitenzorg dans I'lle de Java, par MM. Kuhl et Van Hassclt, c'lmi 

 individus rapportes de Java par M. HorsHeld et deux individus 

 recus do Sinm."' Diard and Duvaucel's specimens wore presumably 

 in the Paris Museum, the Siam specimens admittedly and Hors- 

 field's specimens probably in the India Museum, London ; all these 

 may be considered at most paratypes (it is uncertain whether any 

 are still in existence), leaving Kuhl and Van Hasselt's specimens 

 from Buitenzorg as the series from which to select the cotypes of 

 the subspecies. Of these, nineteen are now in the Leyden Museum, 

 viz., six mounted specimens (Cat. Syst., C. marr/inatus, h, i,j, k, /, 

 m, all with skulls in situ), one alcoholic {fiq, skull in), eight 

 skeletons (Cat. Ost. 6, c, d, e, f, //, h, i), and four odd skulls {o,j>, 

 q, r). But the mounted specimen I (young) is probably not, m 

 (subadult) certainly not titthcecheilus, the alcoholic specimen qq is 

 not titthcecheilus (probably C. horsjieldl), skeletons h and e are 

 C, horsfieldi, skeleton c indeterminable (young with milk dentition), 

 and skull )• immature. This leaves as the real cotypes the mounted 

 specimens h (forearm 79 mm.), i (SO'5), j (75), A- (81), the skele- 

 tons c? (forearm SQ-o), /(76-5), ^7 (77-5), 7; (82-5), i (77), and the 



