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EIDOLON HELVUM (Kerr). 



1792. Vesp[ertilio] vampynis helvus Kerr, Anim. Kingd., p. 91. (Senegal.) 

 1907. Pterocyon helvus Andersen, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, vol. 19, 

 p. 504. June. (Fixes type locality; type-specimen said to have been 

 "originally in Museum Leverianum; has probably been lost.") 



Specimen. — One iii alcohol, from — 

 Zanzibar: Zanzibar (Weddell). 



Genus EPOMOPHORUS Bennett. 



1830. Epomophorus Bennett, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1835, p. 149. February 

 12. (E. gambianus.) 



Three species, of the five known from the limits of this list, are 

 included in the collection. The two desiderata are Epomophorus 

 gambianus and E. lahiatus, both of which have been recorded from 

 Abyssinia, 



EPOMOPHORUS WAHLBERGI HALDEMANI (Hallowell). 



1846. Pteropus haldemani Hallowell, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 3, 

 p. 52. (West Africa; type in Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia.) 



Specimens. — Two, from the following localities: 

 British East Africa: Taita Hills, 1 (Heller). 

 Zanzibar: Zanzibar, 1 in alcohol (Weddell). 



EPOMOPHORUS MINOR Dobson. 



1880. Epomophorus minor Dobson, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1879, p. 715. April. 

 (Zanzibar; type in British Museum.) 



Specimen. — One in alcohol, from — 



Zanzibar: Zanzibar (received from Dr. G. E. Dobson). 



EPOMOPHORUS ANURUS Heufilln. 



1864. Epomophorus anurus Heuglin, Nov. Act. Acad. Caes. Leop., vol. 31, part 7 

 p. 12. (Bongo, Bahr-el-Ghazal, Sudan; cotypes in R. Nat. Hist. Museum, 



Stuttgart.) 



Specimens. — Seventeen, including 8 in alcohol, from — 

 Uganda: Kampala (Loring, Mearns). 



Doctor Mearns's notes show that these specimens were found 

 clinging to the straw roof of the museum building at Kampala. 



Family RHINOPOMID^. 



Genus RHINOPOMA Geoffrey. 



1813. Rhinopoma Geoffroy, Descr. I'Egypte, vol. 2, p. 113. (R. micro phyllum.) 

 1816. Rhinopoma Oken, Lehrb. Nat., 3ter Theil, 2te Abth., p. 926. (/?. micro- 

 phijllum.) 



In this instance, and throughout this list in other cases where there 

 is occasion to cite Geoffroy in volume two of '"Description del'Egypte," 

 I have followed Palmer ^ in dating that work from 1813. Sherborn,' 

 Lyon,^ and others have brought forward considerable evidence to 



I North Amer. Fauna, No. 23, p. 17. January 23, 1904. 



» Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1897, pp. 287-288. 1897. 



3 Proo. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 27, pp. 217-218. Oct. 31, 1914. 



