). For names of islands see [Fig. 2].
Pteropus hypomelanus luteus Andersen
1908. Pteropus hypomelanus luteus Andersen, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, 2:362, October, type from Kiriwini Island, Trobriand Islands; 1912, Andersen, Catalogue of the Chiroptera ... British Museum, 1:128; 1947, Sanborn and Beecher, Jour. Mamm., 28:388, November 19, from Banika Island, Russell Islands.
Specimens examined.—None.
Remarks.—Andersen (1908:362) identified specimens of Pteropus hypomelanus from eastern New Guinea and three nearby islands (Conflict Islands, Trobriand Islands, and Woodlark Island) as P. hypomelanus luteus. Sanborn and Beecher (1947:388) identified a female from Banika Island in the Solomons as of this subspecies although this specimen was darker and had a slightly smaller skull than typical P. hypomelanus luteus. They noted that the pelage of the venter of the female was uniformly dark rather than the typical Ochraceous-Buff to Cream-Buff; the specimen was regarded as a dark phase of the subspecies. Although not recorded previously for luteus, other subspecies of P. hypomelanus were known in dark phase as well as pale and intermediate phases of coloration (Andersen, 1912:122). The reported occurrence of P. h. luteus on Banika Island extended the known geographic range about 450 miles eastward from Woodlark Island.
Pteropus admiralitatum
Three subspecies, all about the same size but differing in coloration, have been described from the Solomon Islands. P. a. goweri is known only from Gower (Ndai) Island, notably removed from the western chain of islands inhabited by P. a. colonus and P. a. solomonis. Only one other subspecies, from the Admiralty Islands, is known.