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PTER0PU8 IIYPOMELANUS LEPIDUS. MiLLlR. 

 Great Redang Island. 5 c? ; 4 $ . 

 Lantinga Island. 1 ? . 



The series of ten specimens agree, on the whole, with a series 

 of eiglit skins from Tioman Island identified by Thomas* as 

 Fteropu!^ liypoinelanm lepidus, Miller f (type locality, Tamhelan Islands, 

 Soiithern China Sea), and they may be referred to that race which they 

 also approach in size. 



Their colour is variable and ranges from individuals with dark 

 chestnut shoulders, dark smoky-grey l)acks and blackish chestnut 

 under-parts to others with tawny shoulders, pale fulvous -fawn backs 

 (pale burnt umber) and broccoli-brown under-parts. The Lantinga 

 Island example best illustrates most strongly the latter type of 

 colouration. 



One specimen (2059/10 ? ), a tawny-shouldered, brown-backed 

 animal, only differs in colour from P. h. rohinsoni, Andersen ;j: (typo 

 locality, Sembilan Islands, Straits of Malacca), in being slightly paler 

 on the extreme sides of the abdomen and thus stands somewhat apart 

 from the others. 



The only specimen of a Fruit-Bat previously known from Grreat 

 Redang Island was recorded by Bonhote|| under the name of P. 

 nicoharicus, Fitzinger. None of the present s]iecimens can he identi- 

 fied in a,ny way with that species. 



Perlientian Islands. 4 t? : 3 ? . 



On arranging the animals from both this island and Great Redang 

 in a series with those having the darkest shoulders and backs at one 

 extreme and the lightest animals at the other, it is seen that in the one 

 position there will be the bats from the Perhentian Islands and in the 

 other the individuals from Great Redang with the specimen from 

 Lantinga, brighest of all, at the extremity : there is a little over- 

 lapping in the centre. 



Of the Perhentian specimens three are so dark as to approach in 

 colour P. nicoharicus, but are much smaller: three others closely 

 resemble P. h. robini^ovi, but the shoulders and under-parts are a 

 trifle darker and the backs a trifle paler. The final specimen 

 (2049/10 c?) nearly resembles Redang individuals in colour above 

 but has the furry portion of the back greatly reduced in width 

 (average breadth 35nnn.). 



* " Jonraal of the Federated Malay States Museums," vol. ii, September, 1908, 

 p. 102. 



t " Proceeding's oi' tlic Washington Academy of Sciences," vol. ii, August, 1900, 

 p. 237. 



+ " Annals and Mag-azinc of Natural History," Ser. 8, vol. iv, December, 1909, 

 p. 534. 



II "Proceedings of tlie Zoological Society," 1900, p. 875. 



