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15. ttliiuoloplnifS luuiig'M.tu.-i i*iiiiiig-a.( iia», Rijpp. 



1842. Rhinolophus fumigalus, Riippell, Mus. Senck. III. pp. 132, 155. — 

 Tj^pc locality: Shoa. (Types examined.) Frankfurt Museum. 



1877. Wnnolophus macrocephalus , Heuglin, Keise in Nordost-Afi-ika II. 



pp. 22-23. — Type locality: Adowa, Abyssinia. (Type examined.) 

 Stuttgart Museum. 



1878. Rhinolophus ferrum-equinum (partim, not Schreb.), Dobson, Cat. 



Chir. Brit. Mus. p. 119. 

 1885. Rhinolophus antinorii, Dobson, Ann. J^Ius. Civ. Genova (2) II. pp. 16-17. 

 — Type locality: « Daimbi, Shoa ». Genoa Museum. 



1904. Rhinolophus fumigatus, Rlipp., Knud Andersen, Ann. & Mag. N. H. 



(7) XIV. pp. 451-53 (1 Dec. 1904.) — Rh. macrocephalus and anti- 

 norii shown to be synonyms of Rh. fumigatus. 



1905. Rhinolophus aelhiops (not Peters), Senna, Archivio Zoologico (Napoli) 



li. pt. 3, pp. 267-71; pi. XVUI. figs. 28-39. — Erythrea. 



a. 9 ad. (in ale.) Asmara, Erythrea; Oct. 1892. Collected by Dr. V. Ragazzi. 

 Genoa Museum. — Skull extracted. 



Rh. fumigata?, belongs to a small group of Ethiopian species, 

 allied to Rh. macroth, Hodgs. (Himalayas] to Sumatra), and Rh. 

 hirsutas, K. And. (Philippines), but on a much higher level of 

 evolution than the Oriental species; in these latter p.^ is always 

 present, p- always comparatively well developed and always 

 situated in the tooth-row, and the wing-structure is quite primi- 

 tive; in the Ethiopian species pg and p^ are rudimentary, pushed 

 out to the external side of the tooth-row, or completely lost, and 

 the wing-structure is modified. 



The Ethiopian representatives of this group are these four: — 

 (1) Rh. aeihiops, Pet., known fi-om Damaraland and Angola, 

 and characterised (as compared with Rh. fumigatus, the only 

 species with which it can be confused) by having, as a rule, a 

 rudimentary P3 and p^; further by its rather broader cranial 

 rostrum, Ijroader liorse-shoe, and slightly longer tail. — (2) Rh. 

 fumigatus fumigatus, Riipp. , from Somaliland, Abyssinia, and 

 Erythrea, characterised by having, as a rule, completely lost pg 

 and p"-; further by its rather narrower cranial rostrum, narrower 

 liorse-shoe , and slightly shorter tail. In British East Africa this 

 form is replaced Ijy the smaller RJi. fumigatus exsul, K. And. 

 It is of some importance to notice that the small p^ is not 



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