KOl>;KTTVS .TXJVI'TIACIS. 29 



('■ de Fterofio leacJn tenendum vidptiir, eiim forfasse a praecedente 

 [i.e. Ft. hottnitotto] nou distinctum esse specie"). Owing to 

 a passage in the original description ("ad basin caudae perbrevis 

 eernitur incisura, figurara inversae V pi'ae se ferens ; juxta banc 

 Cauda, quae plane est libera, exoritur "), Ft. hottentottns As-as by 

 subsequent writers ((iray, Waguer, and others) supposed to differ 

 from Ft. leacJii by a V-sliaped eraargination of the interfemoral at 

 the base of the tail, and by having the tail perfectly free from the 

 interfemoral, diB'ercnces which undoubtedly were due to shrinkage 

 of the median part of tlie interfemoral in the mounted, type of 

 Jioltcutoitns. 



a-e. 4 ad., 1 iimn. ]^ear Cape Town Purchased (Leyden 37.4.28.33-34, 

 sk.s.; skulls. (J.Sinuls). Museum). 38,40,67. 



{ Autbentie specimens of I'teropus hottentoiius, Temm.) 



f-h. 2 S "d-. 1 6 Cfipe Town. Trustees of the S. 75.8.9.1-3. 



iuv. al.; skull Africaia Museum 



of./; [P.]. 



/. Ad. skull. Cape Town (5i> .J. H. Ford, Esq. [P.]. 73.12.8.5. 



Smilh). 



(Figured in 111. Zool. S. Afr.) 

 j. $;ul.;il. Cape Town (.Sir .-1. Surg.-Gen. G-. E. 75.11.3.2. 



ISmitli). Dobson [E.]. 



( Cotijpe of species.) 

 k. S j"T- -^k- ; Cape of Good Hope. Purchased (Ver- 43.12.7.21. 

 skull. reaux). 



l-f. 4cJ'ad..4 $ ad. Knvsna. 3 April, C. 1). Rudd, Esq. 5.5.7.5-12. 

 sks.; skulls. iyuo (C. //. .S. [P.]. 



Grant), 



f-v. (S ad., 2 id., Kny.-5nu {C. H. B. C. D. Eudd, Esq. 6.4.3.126-127. 

 $ juv. al. Grant). [P.]. 



w. Ad. St. ; skull. Natal. Purchased (Stock- f 46.6.2.9. 



holm Museum). 149.8.16.3. 



.r. c^ad. al. Natal. Dr. Seem;ni [C.]. 71.4.21.1. 



y. Ad.sk.; skull. S.Africa. Purchased (Brandt). 46.6.18.2. 



2. Rousettus asgyptiacus, E. Geoff. 

 Ctjnonycteris cegypiiaca, Dobson, Cat. Chir. B. M. p. 74. 

 Pteropus ivgyptiacus •*, E. Geoffroy, Ayin. Mus. d'Hist. Nat. xv. 

 p. 90 (ISiO: Lower Egypt); Oken, Lehrh. Natiirgesch. iii. 

 Abth. il. p. 934 (1816) ; G. Cuvier, Begne Anim. i. p. 124 

 (1817); E. Geoffroy, Descr. de rEgypte, Hist. Xaf. n., Manim. 

 p. 134, pi. iii. fit;-. 2 (1818) ; Desmclrcst, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. 

 xxix. p. 513 (1819 : Cairo) ; id., Encycl. Meth., Maimn. i. 

 p. Ill, no. 144 (1820); Gray, Londmi Medical Eqxmtory, xr. 

 p. 299 (1821); Lichfemtein, Verz. Douhl. Mus. Berlin, p. 3t 

 (1823: Egypt); Lesstm, Man. Mamm. p. 112, no. 292 (1827: 

 EgTpt) : Gray, in Griffith's Anim. Kingd. v. p. 57, no. 161 

 (1827 : Egypt) ; De-'^mare.it, Diet. 8ci. Xat. xlvi. p. 367 (1827 : 

 Egypt, " Senegal ") ; J. B. Fischer, Syn. Mamm. pp. 85, 549 

 (1829 : Egypt, " W. coa.<t of Africa") ; E. Geoffroy, Hist. Nat. 

 Mamm., le?. 13, p. 24 (1829 : EgApt) ; A. Smith, S. Afr. Quart. 

 Journ. ii. p. 53 (1833: Egypt); " Waterhouse, Cat. Mamm. 3/j/.s. 

 Zool. Soc. 2nd ed. p. 13, 'no. 104 (1838); Gray, Mag. Zool. 



* Spelt eqyptiacus by Geoffroy in 1810 (original description of the spesies, 

 /. s. c), m 1818 by the same author (Descr. de I'Egypte, I. s. c.) cegyptiacu^ ; the 

 former may tlierefore be considered a slip or mi.sprint corrected by the author 

 himself. " t Spelt Ft. crgiipiiii^. 



