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Kobus defassa defassa (Riippell)' from Lake Dembea (=Lake 
Tana), Abyssinia (syn., Antilope defassa, var. abyssinica Wagner, 
Schreber’s Saiugth., Suppl., vol. 5, p. 435, 1855); Kobus defassa 
hawashensis Matschie,? from the Hawash River, near boundary line 
between Ankober and the Assobot H lls, Abyssinia; Kobus defassa 
matschiei Neumann,’ from mouth of the Galana River, Lake Abaya, 
Abyssinia; Kobus penricei fromm: Matschie,* from Lake Mkwera, 
west from Lake Rukwa, in southern Ufipa, German East Africa; 
Kobus penricei miinzneri Matschie,> near Mtanga, near Lake Rukwa, 
southwestern German East Africa; and Kobus unctuosa uwwendensis 
Matschie,® from the east shore of Lake Tanganyika, near Isawa, 
German East Africa. 
Genus ONOTRAGUS Gray. 
1872. Onotragus Gray, Cat. Rum. Mamm. Brit. Mus., p. 17. (O. leche.) 
1913. Onototragus HELLER, Smithsonian Misc. Coll., vol. 61, No.7, p.12. July 31. 
(pro Onotragus.) 
Specimens of the Nile species of the lechwe antelope were collected 
by the Smithsonian African Expedition. 
ONOTRAGUS MEGACEROS (Fitzinger). 
1855. Adenota megaceros Firzincer, Sitz.-ber. K. Akad. Wiss., Wien. vol. 17, 
p. 247. (Bahr-el-Abiad, below 7° N., Sudan; type in Vienna Museum.) 
1859. Kobus maria Gray, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 3, vol. 4, p. 296. (Awan, 
Bahr-el-Ghazal, 6° 70’ N., Sudan; type in British Museum.) 
1910. Kobus maria RoosEveE tt, African Game Trails, Amer. ed., p. 475; London 
ed., p. 487. 
1914. Onotragus megaceros RoosEVELT AND HeELiER, Life-Hist. African Game 
Anim., vol. 2, p. 519. 
Specimens.—Four, as follows: 
Supan: Lake No, Bahr-el-Ghazal, 4 (T. Roosevelt, K. Roosevelt). 
One of these specimens is mounted. 
The name Adenota megaceros Fitzinger, 1855, barely escapes classi- 
fication as a nomen nudum; many authors have, indeed, refused to 
accept it as a valid name and have used for the species the name pro- 
posed by Gray in 1859, Kobus maria. It is apparent from a reading 
of Fitzinger’s account that he purposely refrained from describing 
the animal as this was to be done by Heuglin, the collector, who had 
already furnished the species with a name in manuscript, as men- 
tioned by Fitzinger. In Fitzinger’s account of Heuglin’s collection, 
however, he does refer to the new species as a large antelope, distin- 
guished from its close relatives Adenota kob, forfex, and leche, not 
1 Antilope defassa Riippell, Neue Wirb. Abyssin., p. 9, pl. 3, 1835-1840. 
2 Sitz.-ber. Ges. nat. Freunde Berlin, p. 413. 1910. (Powell-Cotton coll.) 
8 Kobus unctuosus matschiei Neumann, Sitz.-ber. Ges. nat. Freunde Berlin, p. 92. March, 1905. 
4 Mitt. Zool. Mus. Berlin, vol. 5, pt. 3, p. 563. June [August], 1911. 
5 Mitt. Zool. Mus. Berlin, vol. 5, pt. 3, p. 567. June [August], 1911. 
6 Mitt. Zool. Mus. Berlin, vol. 5, pt. 3, p. 570. June [August], 1911. 
