MAMMALS COLLIX'TED 15Y DR. W. L. ABHOTT 237 



bital breadth 3.4; zygomatic breadth S.S ; mastoid breadth 7.4; great- 

 est length of braincase 9.6 ; gi^eatest width of braincase above roots of 

 zygomata 7; depth of braincase 5.6; frontopalatal depth (at middle of 

 molar series) i.S; maxillary toothrow (exclusive of incisors) 5.6; 

 mandible 10.3; mandibular toothrow (exclusive of incisors) 5.8. 



Specimens examined. — Four (in alcohol) : two each from Pulo 

 Mobur and Pulo Siantan, Anambas Islands. 



Remarks. — JSmballonura anajnbensis is a member of the group of 

 large species containing E. discolor and E. peninsularis. From 

 both of these it differs in the absence of the whitish bases of the hairs, 

 while from the latter it is further distinguished by the form of the 

 skull. Together with E. peninsularis it differs from E. semicazidata^ 

 the type of which is still extant in the collection of the United States 

 National Museum, in the nearly parallel sides of the tragus. 



I^EROPUS VAMPYRUS Linn^Eus. 



1758, [^Vespertilio] va^npyrus Li'SNMVS, Systema Naturee, i, loth ed., p. 31. 

 (Asia.) 



Eight specimens from Linga Island, July 19, 20, and 21. These 

 appear to differ little if any from a skin secured in Java by Mr. D. G. 

 Fairchild. 



PTEROPUS LEPIDUS sp. nov. 



Type. — Adult female (skin and skull). No. 101670 United States 

 National Museum. From Kaju Ara, or Saddle Island, Tambelan 

 Islands. Collected August 15, 1S99. 



Characters. — Similar to Pteropus condorettsis Peters from Pulo 

 Condor, off the coast of Lower Cochin China, but quite different in 

 color ; the shining light gray back sharply contrasted with the dark 

 reddish brown or blackish brown shoulders and neck. 



Fur. — The fur of the back is silky in texture and closely appressed ; 

 the individual hairs about 12 mm. in length. On rump it becomes 

 slightly woolly, but much less so than on other parts of the body. It 

 _ extends down legs to knee, beyond which a narrow line runs down 

 inner side of tibia to middle. Fur of shoulders, head, neck, and un- 

 derside of body loose and somewhat woolly in texture, not at all ap- 

 pressed, and therefore appearing much longer than that of back, 

 though the individual hairs are only about 14 mm. in length. It ex- 

 tends on lower side of legs to knees, and on humerus nearly to elbow, 

 also sparsely over lower side of propatagium and on wing membrane 

 along basal half of forearm. Upper surface of membranes naked 

 except for a sprinkling of hairs along forearm. 



