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10/15. Mantle; ochraceous-tawny, becoming bay at the 

 edges. 



Head ; black, rather more frosted than the back. 



Underparts : brownish-black to black, scantly griz- 

 zled with pale hair tips. 



9/15. Mantle ; russet with darker edges. 



Head; Mars-brown tinged with black. 



Underparts; cheeks and throat blackish, chest 

 bay, abdomen from ochraceous-tawny in centre 

 to black on sides. 



84/15. Mantle; warm blackish-brown, chestnut post- 

 eriorly. 



Head; dark Mars-brown. 



Underparts; as 9/15 but darker throughout. 



85/15. Mantle ; ochraceous-orange washed with chestnut 

 on nape and shoulders. 



Head and Underparts as 9/15. 



Females 4 examples : — 



Backs ; light seal-brown sprinkled with a few whitish 

 hairs (one individual, 8/15, is much paler than the others 

 approaching in colour examples of P. h. lepidus, Miller, from 

 the east side of the Peninsula). 



248/09. Mantle, Sanford's brown, paler on posterior 

 edge. 



Three other females : — Mantles as above but much paler 

 throughout. 



Heads; pale Mars-brown, but this colour extending only 

 to the cheeks and just beyond the eyes, crown like the 

 posterior part of mantle or paler. 



Underparts; centres of abdomen pale ochraceous-tawny, 

 becoming seal-brown on throat and sides; no black. 



An immature male resembles the females. 



(For measurements see table p. 248). « 



V^hile visiting Pulau Jarak seven specimens of a hypome- 

 lanus bat were collected. This little islet, which lies 

 towards the middle of the Straits of Malacca about 30 miles 

 west of the Sembilan Islands, is about 500 ft. high, in greater 

 diameter about half a mile and is covered with forest. As is 

 the case of Pulau Paya and the Sembilans the only other 

 mammal met with on it was a form of Epimys rattus. 



A series of seven bats was obtained, having the following 

 characters : — 



I Male: — 



Back; like P. h. robinsoni. 



Mantle; burnt-sienna paling posteriorly, but be- 

 coming dark bay where it meets the back. 



