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secure. My experience of D.frenata is that it does not come 

 to traps, as do other Tv^paiidEe. It runs about on the ground or 

 along the roots of large trees, and being an extremely shy and 

 inconspicuovis little animal, is not easy to see or to shoot. 



Measurements. — Ears of the series, 12-13 mm. For other 

 measurements see table, p. 69. 



12. Pteropus hypomelanus condorexsis Pet. 



1602. 2 f^d- Koh Mak. 19th December, 1914. 



1628. 2 juv. ; 1629. $ subad. ; 1630. $ subad. Koh Mak. 

 20th December, 1914. 



1656. 6 ad.; 1657. 6 ad.; 1658. 6 subad. Koh Rang. 

 21st December, 1914. 



" In the three fully adult specimens, one from Koh Mak and 

 two from Koh Rang, the foreai-m measures 138-142 mm., the 

 skull (total length) 62-67, the lower jaw (condyle to front of 

 incisors) 49"8-53-5, and the maxillary tooth-row (c'-m', crowns) 

 24-25-5. 



" Though not very large, this series beautifully illustrates the 

 individual colour-variations in this bat. I should not be sur- 

 prised if they represent approximately the exti'emes in colour, 

 besides, of course, several intermediate stages. The mantle va.ries 

 from a tinge a little paler than " hazel " (Ridgway, pi. iv. no. 12 * : 

 c? subad,, Koh Rang, 1658), through several darker tinges, to 

 warm glossy seal-brown (pi. iii. no. 1 : 5 ad,, Koh Mak, 1602). 

 The underparts are, in two individuals ( 5 juv., Koh Mak, 1628, 

 and <S ad., Koh Rang, 1656), quite or very nearly uniform dull 

 seal-brown ; in one ( $ ad., Koh Mak, 1602) there is just a faint 

 suggestion of a deep chocolate tinge in the central area of the 

 breast and belly, in others this same area becomes gradually 

 lighter in colour, the extreme being a quite pale shade of russet 

 (considerably paler and more bu fly than Ridgway's pi. iii, no. 16 : 

 $ subad., koh Mak, 1629). The back varies from blackish 

 seal-brown to a tinge almost like ' burnt umber,' and is some- 

 times nearly uniform, but more often thinly, sometimes rather 

 thickly, sprinkled with greyish hairs. 



" The variations as described above are entirely independent 

 of the sex and age of the individuals. 



" These are the first specimens of condorensis I have seen 

 since working out the genus Pteroptts for the British Museum 

 Catalogue of Ohiroptera. My material then was the type in 

 Berlin and the paratypes in Paris, from Pulo Condor (off S.E. 

 Lower Cochin-China), all of which are mounted and faded, and 

 an^ old and much faded skin in the British Museum labelled 

 ' Sia.m ' {Flnlayson). Judging from the present fresh and well^ 

 preserved series, I am inclined to think that condorensis will 

 have to be put down as a synonym of Pt. hypoDielamis tomesi. 



* The colours in my ' Catalogue of Meoracliiroptera ' were named from the old 

 edition of Ridgway's ' Nomenclature of Colours ' (1886). To avoid confusion I use 

 the same book for my description of the colours here. 



