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TAHAN EXPEDITION. 



[One of those specimens was dislodged from beneath a stone in 

 broad daylight and seemed practically blind, and the other was trapped 

 with rice as bait in the bed of a stream. The species seems to have a 

 very wide range in altitude, being also recorded from the Larut Hills 

 at 4,000 ft. (A. L. Butler) and from Biserat which does not exceed 

 300 ft.— H. C. R.] 



!). PTEROPU.S VAMPYRUS (LINK.). 



Vespertilio vampyrus, Linn., Syst. Nat., i., p. 31 (1758). 

 Pteropns edulis, Geojfr., Blanf. Mamm., p. 259 ; Flower, op. cit., 

 p. 339. 



Pteropus vampyrus (Linn.) ; Bonh., op. cit., p. 14. 



a., b. m. Kuala Tembeling, Pahang River. 200 ft. 26th August. 



Local and sporadic, but common wherever and whenever found. 



The collection contains a single specimen of a Bat, which appears 

 to have been hitherto undescribed. It belongs to the scarce genus 

 Ccelops, and I propose for it the name. 



10. CCELOPS ROBINSON I, sp. nov. 



Very similar to* C. frithii, from which it differs chiefly in its smaller 

 size. 



In colour it is dark brown, each hair being rather paler at the tip. 

 The metacarpal bone of the thumb is very long and entirely encased 

 in the wing membrane, but the phalanx, though extremely short and 

 bearing a strong claw, is quite free. Blanf ord's statement (Faun. 

 Brit. Ind. Mamm., p. 291) that in C. frithii " the thumb is included 

 in the membrane to the base of the claw " must have been an oversight 

 as in C. frithii, the terminal phalanx is free, and in this respect does 

 not differ from the species under consideration. 



The nose leaf is in the main similar to that of G. frithii. The 

 sella is fairly broad and slightly narrower at its upper end, whereas in 

 C. frithii it is narrowest at its base, while the lower supplementary 

 leaf let in the present species is also broader and rounder and less 

 acutely pointed. The margin of the posterior leaf is smooth and 

 uniform in outline, except for a bold shield- shaped protuberance in the 

 middle line. The pore behind the leaf, with its pencil of hairs, is well 

 developed. 



Dimensions of the type (in ale). —Head and body, 33 mm. ; ear, 

 14 mm. ; forearm, 37 mm. (the forearm of C. frithii is 41 mm. and of 

 C. bernsteini, 42 mm.). 



Habitat. — G-unong Tahan at 500 ft., Pahang. 



Type. — Ad., collected on G-unong Tahan by Mr. Eobinson. This 

 species is the smallest of the genus, so far known, and its size alone 

 will enable it to be easily recognised from its congener. 



[Captured in the young rolled up leaf of a w r ild banana. — H. C. R.J 



