ADDENDA AND COEKIGENDA. 82o 



specimens (types and topotypes). The amount of greyish (or 

 perhaps rather drab wood-brown) admixture to the blackish colour 

 of the back varies considerably individually ; in some specimens it 

 is so thin as to make the general colour of the back appear 

 blackish, the pale sprinkling being onlj' noticeable on closer 

 inspection ; in others so thick as to j^roduce the general effect of a 

 dark hair-brown, ifantle varying from light cinnamon to a tinge 

 so dark as to approach burnt-umber. 



Measurements (four adults). — Forearm 160-1G.5, third meta- 

 carpal 1U9-116 ; skull, total length (ti'om lambda) 70-2-75, 

 condylo-basal length 6S-5-72-2, orbit to tip of nasals 2i-'J-2o-o, 

 mandible (from condyle) 55-00, c-ra^ (crowns) 27'5-'JS-7 mm. 



«-/■ 3 J ad., 1 c? subad., Kangeam Is., Java Old deld Thomas, llU.fl.5-lP. 



l$ad., IJsubad. Sea, 4'; 11, 12 Esq, [P.J. 

 sks. ; skulls. ^oy.VMdiGiii/ 

 C. Shor/ridrK). 



Page o 7 9. Pteropus conspicillatus. 

 Line 46, for " Eight " v^ad " Xine.'' 



Page 381. Pteropus ocularis. 



Xotes on eight additional specimens of this rare species, skins 

 with skulls, all males, five adult, three immature, collected at 

 JCayeli, Burn, by AV. Stalker, and presented by the British Xew 

 Guinea Expedition (10.3.3.6-13) : — 



Colour of fur as described p. 381 , with but inconspicuous 

 individual variation. " Spectacles " often occupying the whole of 

 the sides of the head (rather than forming, a ring round ej-es), and 

 varying from russet through mars-brown to a darker tinge of brown 

 (near vandyck-brown). Immature, but nearly fidl-grown, speci- 

 mens arc similar in colour to adults. 



Forearm 129-141, third metacarpal S9'5-95'5, tibia 55-59"5 ; 

 skull, t*otal length (from lambdoid crest) 62-5-6rr5, coudylo-basal 

 length 60-5-64, orbit to tip of nasals 20-5-22-7, mandible (from 

 condyle) 48-5-51-2, c-nr (crowns) 24-25-7 ram. 



Page 385. Pteropus papuanus. 



The dcscriptiffu of Ft^2J(qmanus, as givtm on pp. 385-386, was 

 taken from t'.io single immature aleoholic specimen then in colicctioa 

 (Grange Island, Baxter Bay, S.E. New Guinea). Since then, tiiree 

 skins with skulls from ^limika River, Dutch New Guinea, have 

 been added to- the collection ( J ad., $ ad., $ juv., collected near 

 Wakatimi, by C. H. B. Grant, presented by the .British >>'ew Guinea 

 Expedition). It was not without much hesitation that the writer de- 

 cided provisionally to keep Ft. papuanus (Xew Guinea) sejiaratc from 

 Ft. neohihernicus (Bismarck Archipelago), and (he now available fresh 

 specimens of the former only add strength to the doubt. The only 

 character by which j)ffj)i<(rHM5 was distinguished from neohibernicus, 



