106 PTEROPIDE, 
hairs; fur dark reddish brown, with a few pale hairs intermixed ; 
nape and back of neck pale yellow, redder on the sides; face, 
including orbits, pale grey brown; arm-bone 5 inches. 
“ Pteropus rubricollis, Leiths, Journ. Mém. Soc. Imp. Cherb. Ver- 
reaux,” 
Hab. New Caledonia (said to be half-grown). 
The face is very long; the wings are attached far back towards 
the middle of the back, being about ? of an inch apart on the back. 
10. Pteropus Floresii. B.M. 
Head, nape, and shoulders pale yellowish grey; sides of neck 
darker yellow ; chin, cheeks, and underside of body blackish brown 
from the dark colour of the lower part of the hairs; back with short, 
soft, close-pressed pale-brown hairs ; head large; nose thick ; fore- 
arm 54 inches ; lower false grinders large, truncated, circular ; upper 
wanting. 
Hab. Flores, Wallace. 
Something like P. griseus, but head much larger and thicker. 
11. Pteropus loochoensis. B. M. 
Black, with a few interspersed white hairs; nape and back, and 
the sides of the neck, reddish yellow, paler near the shoulders ; head 
and throat blackish brown ; face and crown brownish-washed ; fore- 
arms and legs bald; hairy part of back narrow. 
Hab. Loochoo, Warwick. 
Var. Black, with more white hairs; nape and neck dirty white ; 
head browner; underpart of the head and temples blackish ; hairy 
part of back narrow. Hab. Loochoo, Warwick. 
The yellow-naped variety is very like P. keraudrenius, but the 
skull is very different. 
Skull. Length 2 inches 4 lines, width 1 inch 5 lines. The hinder 
grinders oblong; the upper rather the larger. Lower false grinders 
moderate,circular; upper rudimentary, conical. Cutting-teeth rather 
broad. 
12. Pteropus argentatus. The Silver Kalong. B. M. 
Black brown ; back minutely grizzled; underside with some 
longer silver-tipped hairs; head slightly yellow-washed, especially 
_on temples and orbits; sides of the forehead, nape, and back of the 
neck bright golden yellow; forearm-bone 43 inches. 
Pteropus argentatus, Gray, List Mamm. B. M. p. 194; Zool, Sulphur, 
p. 30, not Ann. Nat. Hist. 
Hab. Amboyna? Island of Gobie; New Guinea. 
