824 ADDEXIJA AXK C'ORRJCiENDi. 



the apparently darker colour of the back, seems to break down ; 

 the individual variation in colour is in neohiheniicus greater than 

 Usual (see p. 388), and the new material seems to indicate a similar 

 variation in pajjiianns. 11' this is confirmed by a larger series of 

 specimeuSi the name pupuanvs will have definitely to be put down 

 as a mere synonym of neohiheniicus. 



Colour. — rj" ad. (26 Peb. 1911, near Wakatimi, Miraika 11.). 

 Back from shoulders to pelvis practically naked ; rump light buft'y 

 ■\vood-brown at centre and posteriorly, I'rout's brown anteriorly 

 and laterally. Back of neck and occiput (as far as a line between 

 fronts of ears) yellowisli wood-brown, shading on sides of neck 

 rather rapidly into deej) russet, this again on foj'eneck, throat, 

 chest, and middle of belly into deep vandyck-brown sprinkled with 

 huffy and buff-greV hairs. Sides of belly, flanks, and crissum light 

 buff-grey, strongly contrasting with dark brown chest and centre of 

 holly. A narrow line of vandyck-brown separating pale nape 

 of neck from naked back. Crown (in front of ears) and sides of 

 head similar to throat and foreneck ; muzzle practically naked. 



2 ad. (same date and place). Similar to the above described 

 adult male, with the following differences : Dark brown colour of 

 crown confined to a narrow median longitudinal line^ Ko dark 

 brown line bordering palo nape of neck posteriorly. Sides of belly, 

 flanks, and crissum much warmer in colour, approximately wood- 

 brown somewhat washed with pale russet. 



2 juv. (same date and place). Much darker. Back (furred 

 along spinal tract) and rump dark vandyck-brown, Mantle and 

 occiput russet mars-brown, changing to russet vandyck-brown on 

 sides of neck', this again into chestnut seal-brown on foreneck. 

 Crown (in front of ears) and sides of head dark vandyck-brown 

 thinly sprinkled with bnffy hairs. Throat and the whole of the 

 underside of the body, from foreneck to interfemoral, seal-brown 

 thinly sprinkled with pale, shiny hairs. (Judging from other 

 species of Fteropus, there is no reason to suppose that the dark 

 colour of this individual is due to its immaturity ; it is probable 

 that the colour would have remained essentially the same, if the 

 animal had lived to acquire the adult pelage ; but note the nnked- 

 aess of the dorsum of the adults.) 

 JMcasm-ements. On pp. 832-834. 



I'age 40f). Pteropus ScapulatuS. 

 Line 2n, fot " Xineteen " read " Twenty-onei" 



l'ag'». 429. Acerodon jiihatiis jubatUs^ 

 Line 2, lor '• Seventeen " read •' Twenty." 



'■ Vnp^e 460. Dobsonia niinoi'. 



A specimen from Mimika Kiver. South Dutch Xew Guinea (d* 



catalogued belovr) is indistinguishable from the type (Amberbaki. 



