1916. ] Thomas: Some Malayan Microchiroptera. 5 



Emballonura amimbensis. Kloss, Journ. F. M. S. Mus. IV, 

 p. 186 (1911). 



25 in al. from various localities, including Aor and 

 Tiornan Is. Skins from Kao Nawng, Bandon (2); Bliah, Pulau 

 Kundur (2); Pulau Tiornan (1); and Kuala Lumpur (1). 



Taphozous melanopogon fretensis, snbsp. nov. 



Taphozous melanopogon, Cantor, Journ. Asiat. Soc. 

 Bengal, 1846 p. 180; Flower P. Z. S., 1900 p. 347. 



5 skins and 9 in al. Terutau Id. Straits of Malacca. 



11 ,, 14 ., Pulau Angsa, Coast of Selangor. 



12 ,, Batu Caves, Selangor. 



Essential characters as in true melanopogon, but colour 

 both of fur and membranes far paler. 



Cieneral colour above pale brown, near " avellaneous " of 

 Ridgway, varying a good deal in intensity, the hairs 

 white for the greater part of their length, avellaneous termin- 

 ally, or with their extreme tips again light. Undersurface 

 "drab grey," the black beard when present contrasting 

 markedly with the general light colour of the underside. In 

 some specimens the brown parts of the upper hairs may be 

 considerably darker, but never or very rarely as dark as in 

 ordinary melanopogon, the average colour of all Peninsular and 

 Straits specimens being conspicuouslv lighter. Membranes 

 pale brown throughout. 



Dimensions of type : — Forearm 60 mm. 



Head and body (measured in flesh) 80; tail 25, ear 17. 

 Skull, greatest length 21 ; condvle to front of canines 20, front 

 of canine to back of m 3 9. 



Habitat. Islands and coast of the Straits of Malacca. 

 Type from Pulau Terutau. 



Type. Adult male. F. M. S. Mus. No. 391/12. Original 

 number 5,163. Collected 1st December. 1912 by native 

 collector. 



The light colour of the fine series of this bat is in 

 striking contrast to its dark hues elsewhere. A large number 

 of specimens are in the British Museum from other parts of 

 the range of T. melanopogon; but none show the peculiar 

 pallor of the present set. The Terutau specimens average on 

 the whole the lightest, then those from Pulau Angsa, and the 

 Batu Caves, Selangor. Other peninsular examples, of which 

 there are few available, appear to average rather darker than 

 in the extreme of fretensis. lighter than in true melanopogon. 



Taphozous leucopleurus albipinnis, Phos. 



Taphozous longimanus albipinnis, Thomas, Ann. and Mag. 

 Nat. Hist. Ser. 7, II, p. 246 (1898). Thomas & Wroughton. 

 Journ. F.M.S. Mus. IV, p. no (1909). 



