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1. Pterocyon DupreanuSj Sclil. & Poll. 



1866. Pleropus Dupreanus, Sclilegel & Pollen, P. Z. S. p. 419 (N.W. 

 Madagascar). 



Range. — Madaoascar. 

 Coti/pesin the Leiden Museum. 



2. Pterocyon Jielvus, Kerr. 



1771. Lesser Ternate Bat, Pennant, Syn. Quadr. p. 302. uo. 274 B, 



pi. xxxi. fig. 1. 

 1774. Vespertilio Vampyrus (nee L.), var. 0, Schreber, Saugtli. i, 



p. 154. 

 1777. rteropus Vainpyrus, var. y, Erxleben, Syst. Regn. An., Mamm. 



p. 133. 

 1781. Lesser Ternate Bat, Pennant, Hist. Quadr. ii. p. 552, pi. lii. 



fig. 1. 

 1788. Vespertilio Vamjjyrus, var. y, Gmelin, Linu, Syst. Nat. ed. 13, i. 



p. 45. 

 1792. Pteropus Vampyrus, var. y, Donndorff, Zool. Beytr. i. p. Q2. 

 1792. Vesper-tilio Va7nj}yrus helvus, Kerr, Anini. Kingd. i. pt. i. pp. xvii, 



91, no. 108. 

 1810. Pteropus stramineus, E. Geofi"roy, Ann. Mus. d'llist. nat. xv. 



p. 95 (Timor, errore). 

 1861. Pterocyon paleaceus, Peters, MB. Akad. Berlin, p. 423 (Africa). 

 1861. Pteropus mollijnlosus, H. Allen, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Philad. 



p. 159 (Gaboon). 



1865. Pteropus pabnariun, Heuglin, Leopoldina, Heft v. nos. 3-4, p. 34 

 (Middle and Upper Nile). 



1866. Xantharpyia leucomelas, Fitzinger, SB. Akad. Wien, liv. Abth. i, 

 H. 10, p. 544 (Sennaar). 



1881. Leiponyx Bilttikoferi, Jentink, Notes Leyden Mas. iii. p. 59 

 (Liberia). 



Range. — Africa, from Somaliland, Sennaar, and Sene- 

 gambia in the north, to Nyasaland, Maslionaland, and Nama- 

 qualand in tlie soirth. 



Tiji)e not in existence. 



Kerr's Vespertilio Vampyrus heJvus. — The present species 

 was well known to the earlj post-Li nnean systematists, who 

 put it down as a variety of Vespertilio (or Pteropus) vam- 

 ^njrus, L. The earliest recognizable figure and description 

 appear to be those given by Pennant, in 1771 (/. s. c), under 

 the name " Lesser Ternate Bat," so called because Pennant 

 considered it a lesser variety of Seba's " Cams volans 

 Ternatanus orientalis." Kerr's V. Vampyrus helvus was based 

 on Pennant's description and figure of this bat. The type, 

 originally in Museum Leverianum, has probably been lost. 

 No habitat given by Pennant nor by Kerr. Senegal may 

 be fixed as the type locality of Pt. helvus. 



Jentink's Leiponyx Bilttikoferi. — Type locality : St. Paul's 



