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seal-brown mixed with greyish- white hairs. Chin and inter- 

 ramia blackish brown ; sides of neck dull ochraceous bufFy ; 

 abdomen blackish brown, liberally mixed with shining 

 whitish hairs. 



Skull and teeth as in P. tonganus. 



Dimensions of the type : — 



Forearm 142 mm. (otiier specimens 141 and 136). 



Third linger, metacarpus 94 (otiier specimens 98 and 92) ; 

 first phalanx 67, second piialanx 101. 



Skull : greatest length 65*6 ; maxillary tooth-row 24'7 ; 

 diameter of orbit 13'3. 



Hah. Dampier ( = Krakar Island), off the N.E. coast of 

 New Guinea, from which the island is separated bj Basilisk 

 Strait. 



Type. Adult female. B.M. no. 15. 2. 18. 2. Collected 

 20th February, 1914, by A. S. Meek. Presented by Oldfield 

 Thomas. Three specimens. 



Although I provisionally use a binomial name for this bat, 

 to fall in with Dr. Andersen's arrangement of the group, I 

 am inclined to think that, in company with P. vanicorensis, 

 it will later be considered as a local subspecies of P. ton- 

 ganus. From the former, which I have not seen, it would 

 appear to be distinguishable by the paler-coloured head, not 

 sharply contrasted with the colour of the mantle, while from 

 the latter it may be separated by its more ochraceous mantle 

 and its browner back and belly. Its geographical position is 

 a long way off from the Santa Cruz and Tonga groups of 

 islands, the respective localities of the other two forms. 



Pteropus hypomelanus vulcantus, subsp. n. 



Top of head dull buffy, with an intermixture of shining 

 buffy hairs, this colour passing into the darker buffy or 

 ochraceous buffy of the nape. Back abruptly brown, lined 

 and rendered more greyish by an intermixture of light buffy 

 or whitish hairs. Cheeks darker than crown. luterramia 

 smoky brown. Throat dull buffy, browner in the middle 

 line ; sides of neck deep buffy like nape. Chest and belly 

 dark olive-brown, washed with buffy or dull whitish. 



Dimensions of the type : — 



Forearm (c.) 130 mm. 



Tliird finger, metacarpus 90 ; first phalanx 64, second 

 phalanx 99. 



Skull : greatest length Q6. 



Hah. Vulcan ( = Manumudar) Island, N.E. New Guinea. 



Type. Adult male. B.M. no. 15. 2. 18. 4. Collected 29th 



