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1 . Melonycteris melanops, Dobs. 



Mclonycteris melanoj^is, Dobson, Cat. Chir. B. M. p. 97. 



Melonycteris melanops, Dohson, P. Z. S. 1877, p. 119, text-figs. 4-7 

 (muzzle, ear, upper and lower teeth of paratope), pi. xvii. 

 (animal, from type) (1 June, 1877 : Duke of York I.) ; id., Cat. 

 Chir. B. M. p. 97 (1878 : same specimens) ; id.^ P. Z. S. 1878, 

 p. 316 ( $ ad., type localitvj ; Troiiessart, Reo. 8; May. Zool. (3) 

 vi. p. 209, n. 341 (1879'); Peters >^ Doria, Ann. Mus. Civ. 

 Genova, xvi. p. 691 (1881) ; Pagensterher, Jahrb. wiss. Anst. 

 Hamb. ii. pi. — . fig. 2 (palate-ridges ; tongue ; insertion of mem- 

 branes) (1885) ; Jentink, Cut. Syst. Mamm. p. 1.59 (1888: Duke 

 of York I.; New Britain) ; Xoack, Zuol. Jahrb., Syst. iv. p. 212 

 ( 1 889; ; Flo2cer ^y Lydekker, Mamm. p. 655 ( 1891 ) ; Trouessart, 

 Cat. Mamm. i. p. 9U, n. 488 (1897) ; Matachie, Meyachir. p. 93 

 (1899: MacCluer Bay; New Britain; Duke of York I.); 

 Trouessart, Cat. Mamm., Suppl. p. 66, n. 566 (1904) ; Jeyitinh, 

 Notes Leycl. Mus. xxviii. p. 172 (1907) ; Mtller, Fam. ^ Gen. 

 Bats, p. 74, pi. vii. Hg. 4, pi. viii. fig. 4 (teeth : Duke of York I.) 

 (1907) ; El/iot, Cat.^ Mamm. Jbield Col. Mus. p. 496, n. 875 

 (1907: Duke of York I.). 



Pteropus (Cheiropteruges) alboscapulatus, Ramsay, Proa. Linn. 

 Soc. N. S. Wales, ii.' p. 17 (meeting 29 Jan. 1877) (July, 1877 : 

 Duke of York 1.). 



Fur. — Length, back 5 (general mass of hair) and 7 mm. (longest 

 liairs), breast 3 and 5. Forearm almost naked above (but mem- 

 brane on either side distinctly though rather thinly haired); 

 upperside of tibia and adjoining membranes on either side clothed 

 with long but somewhat thinly spread hairs. 



Colour. — Type ( J ad. skin) : General colour of back pale cinna- 

 mon ; individual hairs seal-brown at extreme base (only for a 

 length of a millimetre or less), then light huffy cinnamon, this 

 colour shading at tip into warm golden cinnamon ; a small epaulette 

 of white hair at origin of ante-brachial membrane Q^alboscapu- 

 latus"). Underparts, from throat to interfemoral, seal-brown 

 heavily mixed with light grey ; individual hairs seal-brown for 

 basal half or two-thirds, with light grey tips (these everywhere 

 allowing the seal-brown colour to show through). Hairs of crown 

 seal-brown with short light cinnamon tips, producing a dark brown 

 colour lightened (powdered) with cinnamon ; circumocular region 

 and sides of face seal-brown thinly and finely sprinkled with pale 

 cinnamon (" ntelanops'') ; extremity of hairy muzzle and a narrow 

 streak coutinued backward between eyes light greyish or huffy 

 grey. Forearm and digits (in dried condition) yellowish irregularly 

 blotched with dark brown ; membranes dark brown with some 

 irregular and ill-defined yellow patches between forearm and fifth 

 metacarpal. 



There is probably some individual variation in the tinges. An 

 alcoholic specimen ( $ ad., 86.7.9.2, with colours seemingly well- 

 preserved) is conspicuously richer, almost tawny ochraceous, above, 

 the greyish hair-tips of the underside lighter in tiuge, those of the 

 crown more greyish, the seal-brown colour of the sides of the face 



