Transcriber's Notes Text Emphasis ================ _Text_ - Italics =Text= - Bold Symbolic Representations ============================== [F] Female symbol [M] Male symbol [BC] Circle Black [TW] Circle Top White [RW] Circle Right White [BW] Circle Bottom White [LW] Circle Left White [RTW] Circle Right Third White [LTW] Circle Left Third White UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS PUBLICATIONS MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY Vol. 16, No. 8, pp. 777-837, 17 figures in text December 16, 1968 Systematics of Megachiropteran Bats in the Solomon Islands BY CARLETON J. PHILLIPS UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE 1968 UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS PUBLICATIONS, MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY Editorial Committee: E. Raymond Hall, Chairman; Frank B. Cross, Editor; Henry S. Fitch; J. Knox Jones, Jr. Volume 16, No. 8, pp. 777-837, 17 figs. Published December 16, 1968 UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Lawrence, Kansas PRINTED BY ROBERT R. (BOB) SANDERS, STATE PRINTER TOPEKA, KANSAS 1968 [Illustration] 31-9490 Systematics of Megachiropteran Bats in the Solomon Islands BY CARLETON J. PHILLIPS CONTENTS PAGE INTRODUCTION 781 GAZETTEER 783 METHODS AND MATERIALS 786 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 786 KEY TO GENERA 787 _Rousettus amplexicaudatus hedigeri_ Pohle 788 _Pteralopex atrata atrata_ Thomas 791 _Pteralopex atrata anceps_ Andersen 792 _Pteropus hypomelanus luteus_ Andersen 796 _Pteropus admiralitatum solomonis_ Thomas 796 _Pteropus admiralitatum colonus_ Andersen 796 _Pteropus admiralitatum goweri_ Tate 797 _Pteropus howensis_ Troughton 797 _Pteropus tonganus geddiei_ MacGillivary 798 _Pteropus rayneri rayneri_ Gray 800 _Pteropus rayneri grandis_ Thomas 801 _Pteropus rayneri rubianus_ Andersen 802 _Pteropus rayneri lavellanus_ Andersen 802 _Pteropus rayneri monoensis_ Lawrence 803 _Pteropus rayneri cognatus_ Andersen 803 _Pteropus rayneri rennelli_ Troughton 804 _Pteropus woodfordi_ Thomas 804 _Pteropus mahaganus_ Sanborn 806 _Dobsonia inermis inermis_ Andersen 808 _Dobsonia inermis_ new subspecies 809