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ADDENDA AND CORRIGENDA. 



Jimn/e. Thus far known only from the Sembilaii Islands (Pulo 

 Eumbia), Straits of Malacca, off the western coast of the Malay 

 Peninsula. 



a-d. Ic^ad-.S Pulo Kiimbia, Sembilan Government, Feilerated '' 8.1.25.32. 

 $ ad. eks.; Is. ; 7 Aug. 1906, 5-7 Malay States [P.]. \ 9.11.1.7-9. 

 skulls. March, 1909. (9.11.1.8, $ ad. : J!/j5c of subspecies.) 



Pages 120, 121. Pteropiis hypomelanus tomesi. 



Page 120, line 31, delete "Sembilan Islands (off N.E. Sumatra)." 

 Page 121, delete lines 42-46 (specimen 8.1.2.5.32, which is the 

 recently described Fl. li. rohinsoni). 



Page 140. Pteropus griseiis. 



Add to list of specimens : — 

 (/. cJ jur. sk. ; skull. 'E.Twnor {Dr. A. R. Wallace). Tomes Coll. 7.1.1.250. 



Page 140. 

 Add the following species : — 



5 bis. Pteropus pumilus. Miller. 



Pteropus pumilus, Miller, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mtis. xxxviii. p. 394 

 (19 Aug. 1910: Palmas I.). 



Diagnosis. — Similar to Pt. grisens (Timor, Boncrato, Dyampca), 

 but smaller, and with the back, breast, and belly somewhat darker 

 in colour. Hab. Known only from the type locality, Palmas Island, 

 S.E. of Mindanao, Philippines. 



The following measurements to show the smaller size of Pt. 

 pumilus, as compared with Pt. griseus : forearm about 109 mm. 

 (114-5-118 iw griseus), third metacarpal 70"5 (79-81'5), mandiblo 

 37-5-39-2 (44), c-m= (crowns) 18-2 (21-2). For detailed measure- 

 ments see the tables pp. 832-834. 



Fur. — Distribution, length, and quality as in Pt. griseus. 

 Length, at middle of back about 14 (longest hairs) and 7 mm. 

 (general mass of hair). 



Colour (paratype, $ subad. skin, U.S. N. Mus. 144759).— Very 

 similar to specimen B.M. 97.1.3.4 (Dyampea I.) of Pi. griseus, as 

 described p. 139, but a little darker on back and rather more con- 

 spicuously so on breast and belly. Back hair-brown, rather thickly 

 sprinkled partly with silvery greyish and partly with Avood-brown, 

 the latter predominant on rump, femur, and tibia ; base of fur dark 

 slate. Breast, belly, and flanks pale mars-brown, mixed with 

 shiny wood-brown tips to some of the hairs, particularly on centre 

 of breast; base of fur dark slate. Mantle pale huffy, shading into 

 deeper buff on sides of neck ; hair of foreneck tipped with pale 

 mars-brown (paler than breast) ; base of fur of neck everywhere 

 dark slate. Crown and muzzle light olive-buff, conspicuously miied 



