6 SJOSTEDTS KILIMANDJAKO-MERU EXPEDITION. L'. 



Chiroptera. 



E|iomo|)liorus minor DOBSON. 



Epomophorus minor DOBSON. MATSCHIE, Die Meg'achiroptera, Berlin 1899, p. 51. 



Usambara: A dry specimen from Moe'mbe 17 /e 1906. 



MATSCHIE reports this species only from the zoogeographical district which he 

 calls Malagarasi, that is the land drained to Tanganyika from the east and north and 

 to Nyansa from the south. Moembe lies, however, outside this district and might be 

 counted to the coast district according to MATSCHIE' s divisions. 



H])oni]>lioriis iiciimamii MATSCHIE. 



Epomophorus neumanni MATSCHIE, Die Megachiroptera, Berlin 1899, p. 50. 

 KiUmandjaro: 1 specimen (?) ! '/u 1905, Ngare nairobi near Kibonoto. 



Kousettns leaehi A. SMITH. 

 (= Rousettus collar is auct. ). 



Xantharpyia collar is (!LLIGER). MATSCHIE, Die Megachiroptera, Berlin 1899, 

 p. 66. Rousettus Leaehi A. SM. ANDERSEN, Ann. & Mag. Nat Hist. Ser. 7 Vol. XIX 

 p. 506. 



Usambara: 9 specimens from Tanga 4 /.-, 1905 , all of them rather young. 



This species inhabits in great number the Mkulumusi caves. SJOSTEDT writes 

 about his visit to these caves: The road passed down a slope among cocoa palms and 

 high grass, the trees became more dense and formed a vault over our heads near the steep 

 rocks. The air was hot and damp. Turning round a part of the high vertical wall of 

 rock just above the riverbank we stood suddenly before a high and wide entrance to 

 the cave. We lit our carbid torches and entered. Hardly had our voices reechoed in 

 the dark vaults before a strange sight was made visible in the sharp flickering light of 

 the torches. The whole air resounded with the whizzing of hundreds or perhaps thousands 

 of large bats and the roof in the high and long, dome-shaped although narrow vaults was 

 like a continuous undulating dark mass. Armed with a long soft branch with which I 

 struck back and forth among the swarming bats I entered accompanied by the torch- 

 bearer. Now and then a thud was heard and a bat hit by the branch fell down on the 

 muddy floor where we, sinking down to the ankles, catch our prey and hand it to the negro 

 carriers. 



The smaller insectivorous bats (C oleum, Tricenops, Vespertilio) lived in narrower 

 separate caves where they literally swarmed. 



Koiiisettus lanosus THOMAS. 



Rousettus lanosus THOMAS, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. Ser. 7. Vol. XVIII p. 137. 



KiUmandjaro: 1 specimen from the cultivated zone at Kibonoto 21 /7 1905. 



This species was first discovered on Ruvenzori at an altitude of 5,000 13,000 feet. 

 It is easily recognized from the foregoing species by its longer and denser fur, and narrow 

 molars. 



