Lantinoa Island.— Cue skin with skull ( ;■ -uIm.I. ). S-pt. •;. \\i\u 

 Kuala Lumpur Museum, 2,051. 



Oreat Reuang Island.— Niiif skins witli skulls (four ^ aA , 

 one (^ suhad., two? ad., two? subad.). Au^'. :n-.S'i.f 1. l;»l0: 

 Kuala Lumijur Museum, 2,056-2,060. and B. M. ll.l.:jo. 4-7 



Perhentian Island.— Seven skins with skidls (two rf .id., two rf 

 subad., two $ ad., one ? sul)ad.), Sept. 9-1:3, H»l<> . Kuala [.iinipur 

 Museum, 2,047-2,050, and B.M. 11.1.30. 1-3. 



Tlie nine specimens (P. Tioman, Great Rt'danj;. IVrhentiaii) m th.- 

 possession of the British Museum have l>eeu presented b\- the Govern- 

 ment of the Federated Malay States, throu;:li Messi-s H. C. Kobinw)n 

 and C. B. Kloss. The four from Bij; Tamltelan and Aor Ishind.-i wi-ii- 

 borrowed from the U. S. National Museum, thron^'h Mr. (»«Tnf 

 S. Miller, Jr., diu-ing the preparation of the B.M. Cataio;,Mi«- of 

 Megathiroptera. The remainiuj^ ten speeimeus (P. Tiouiau. Ijiintiujra. 

 Great Kedanir, Perhentian) are tlie property of the Kuala Lumpur 

 Museum and were sent to the British Museum for examination .md 

 identification. 



The Tamlx'lau Islands {iy\Hi ItK-ality of l^f. h. lipKlnx) an- situ.it«d 

 in the S. China Sea, about midway Ix'tween Borneo and the soutlnMii 

 point of the Malay Peninsula. P. Aor and Tioman ilos*' toujether ofT 

 the south-east coast of the Peninsula; P. Lantiu^'a, Great Ketlun-^'. 

 and Perhentian close toji;ether off the east coast of the Peuinhulu (^at 

 Treuggauu), some 200 miles north of P. Tioman. 



COLOUR OF BACK. 

 The darkest* specimens in the series have the kick .seal-brown or 

 blackish brown distinctly sprinkled witli light greyish (silvery-grpy, 

 white-grey) hairs ; though conspicuous, the gn'yish sprinkling im not 

 nearlv strong enough to obliterate the seal-brown e!»-m«'nt «if the 

 coloration, the general imjnvssion of the colour of tli*- lunk l>»Mng a 

 blackish or blackish brown tinge, thinly gri/./led with liu'lit ;,'r.v 



* In ))onit of colour the i-xtrcme cnsteni raws of Pt. Uiffximt' 

 Ft. Ii. luteu;), from New Guinea, ami I't. h. hupomtluu'ii', from tin* (Jilol-. >m.ii|.> 

 are tlic most " ordinary- lookiuh'" forms of tins widely iliHtrilmte«l uml liiK'ily 

 rariublc species— i.e., the colours of the l)aek (approxiiimtely Proul's J>n>»rn). 

 mantle and inider-parts (odiraceous-lmff or sjime n'latc«l tin>f<')«rt< mH inm^ntijilK 

 different from those of many other siK'cies of iVtroj'"". ."^o far «« tlii« c«.l<Miri.'f 

 the fur are concerned, those eastern nicca may thorffon* U« itmoidorwl the K-««t 

 modified forms of the species. Pt. h. hpiilu* exhilnls two ini|.ormnt in.ii!ific«h..ti« 

 of the colours— riz., ( 1 ) a consi)icnoHS, often even excowiive. adniixtnrr of lijfht irrry 

 in the colour of the hack, and (2) a conMidi-rnl.le darkonintf «( tho Jirijrhi culmir ,4 

 the mantle and under-i)arts. h. descrihinjr the individual Mirinlioiw ..f ilio rolcwr 

 of the back in Pt. h. Irpidii^ it therefore ap|H>an« natuml Co i«m from tho d^trUtl. 

 backed specimens (those exhibitinir the thinnest ndmixturr of hVhi jfrry) «o th* 

 pn/f^^backed (stron;,'rst admixture of t'ny); and in describinjr th« T»ri*»iofi» of 

 the mantle and under-jwirts from the lifc'hte«f rxfrrmc (nramt r«fr«#) to the 

 darkest (.'specimens in which the onVinal brijfht oWour of the mmitk and und»r. 

 parts is jiartly or wholly replaced by darker ling»»). 



