GEOGRAPHICAL DISXRIBUTIOX. 



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The number of genera, species, and forms represented in each 

 region and subregiou is as follows : — 



E. Mediterranean subregion ... 



Etiiiopian region 



Malagasy rejiioii 



Iiiflian & Ceyloiiese siibregions , 



ludo-Cliinese subregi<iii 



Inclo-Malaya 



Austro-Malaya 



Auslraljiui coiiUneiit 



Polyuesia 



Genera. 



I 



13 



2 



Species. 



14 



36 

 S'J 

 5 

 20 



Forms. 



I 

 34 

 10 



S 

 15 



93 



S 



•JO 



2. Distrihulioii of specks and suhspecie^. 



The subjoined j^cographical list of the species and stibspecics is 

 based almost eutirel}' on the material examined by the writer 

 during the preparation of this Catalogue. An asterisk after a 

 generic, specific, or subspecific name indicates that the genus, 

 species, or subspecies is not known to occur outside the area dealt 

 with. 



Eastern Mediterranean Subregion. 



Egypt, Syria, Palestine, Cyprus : — IiousctOis at/t/ptiu£HS (also in Ethiopian 

 region). 



Ethiopian Region, 



West African Province (Great West ACrican Forest Tract, south to Daniara- 



lanil, east to Victoria Nyanxa ; one of the forms marked aa autochthonous 



extends a little beyond the eastern limits of the proyiiioe) :^ 

 Eidolon /;cVw(;/J (Ethiopian region generally). 

 lioitsettiis acji/pliactts (N.E. to Egypt. Syria, &c.) ; lanosus* (Ruwenzori) 



aiif/oleiisis * ; soii/hi* (Guinea coast). 

 I'lero/es* aiich/c/ce (Benguela). 

 Eponwps* jrauqufti sirfijifaiis (Gold Coast, Lagos, Ts'igeAa.); fro liquet i 



fraiiqucti (C)ld Calabar to Bukoba); hueitVcoferl {Sierra, Leone, Liberia) ; 



doluvni (Beugiieln, Katanga). 

 Nifpsiffiift/fius * 7>ion.-itro.''i(s (Gambia to Monbuttu). 

 J'jiij/iiiijjhonis wahfhet-gi halih'miuu* (Canieroojis to G. & B. East Africa) ; 



(;n/?(A;Vrw?^< (Senegal to Sennaar and Abyssinia); angulciufis* (Benguela, 



Damaraland); puuaarffuefi * (Upper Shari). 

 Mici-op/erupiis * ptiHllus (Gambia to Victoria Nyanza). 

 y<iiioiii/cferis * veld/iampi (Guinea coast). 

 JSii:f()4ii/cferis * :eiikcri (Cameroo7is, Fernando Po). 

 CiiMini/r/er/s * aryynnis (Can>eroons). 

 Mi/o'ii/cfcris* wrimt/h/oni (Welle district); lepfodon (Sierra I^eone, 



Lil)eria) ; turquata (Lower Congo, Angola) ; braelii/cejtkala (Sau 



Thome). 

 Mi'tjaloglossus * woermanni (Congo to Liberia). 



Eastern side of Continent : — 



Eidolon hclviiiu (Ethiopian region generally). 



liouscitus leachi* (B. East Africa to Cape Colony) ; rP(7.w7V?V?f«(Erylhrra, 

 south-west to Gaboon and Loanda, norlli t(> Egypt, ■Syria, &c.) ; Kcrnpi * 

 (Shoa, B. East Africa). 



