EPOMOPS. 4S7 



Measurements. On pp. 510, 512, 513. 



Range. So far known only from Galanga, Benguela. 



Type, in the Lisbon Museum, an adult female, niounfed, skull 

 extracted, obtained by Sr. Anchieta. No other specimen is known 

 to exist in collections (March, 1910). For the loan of the type the 

 ■writer is indebted to Sr. A. F. de Seabra. 



Remarlcs. — Though widely different in skull and dentition this 

 species bears externally much resemblance to Micropternpits piisiUus. 

 It may be safely distinguished from that and any other Epomophorine 

 bat by the narrowness of the lateral interfemoral and the absence 

 (or rudimentary condition) of the calcar ; and the following two 

 characters taken together, viz., absence of a calcar and presence of 

 whitish hair-tufts at the base of the ears, are, quite apart from 

 cranial and dental peculiarities, sufficient to distinguish it from any 

 other known Fruit-bat. 



10. EPOMOPS, Grai/. 



Epomophorus (pt.), Dobson, Cat. Chir. B. M. p. 4. 



Tvpe. 

 1866. F.pomops, Gray, F. Z. S. 18G6, p. 6-5 E. f. franqueti. 



Epomophorus (pt.), Tomes, P. Z. S. 1860. p. 44; Peters, MB. Akad. 



Berlin, 1867, p. 869; Dohson, l.s.c. (1878); Miller, Fa7n. ^ 



Gen. Bats, p. 65 (1907). 

 Epomops, Gray, Cat. Monk. ^r. p. 125 (1870) ; Matschie, Megachir. 



p. 56 (1899: subgenus of Epomophonis') ; K. Andersen, Ann. 8f 



Mag. A\ H. (8) v. p. 99, footnote (1910 : differential characters). 



Summary of characters. — Epomophorine section. Length of 

 rostrum much greater than lachrymal breadth ; rostrum tapering 

 anteriorl)- ; palate broad, never deeply depressed posteriori}-. 

 Incisors ^3| or, i' being often deciduous, ^ ; cheek-teeth | 



(p^ and m^ absent); lower incisors bilobed ; longitudinal ridges of 

 cheek-teeth simple, prominent; interdental conspicuous!)' different 

 from postdental palate-ridges ; thirteen dorsal, four lumbar, two 

 caudal vertebrae. Lips greatly expansible, without prominent 

 cutaneous folds in front ; interfemoral and calcar well-developed ; 

 external tail rudimentary ; vertical fascias of mesopatagium 

 numerous, crowded ; whitish hair-tufts at base of ears. Malea 

 larger than females, with two pairs of pharyngeal sacs, and large 

 shoulder pouches and epaulette-like hair-tufts. Forearm 82— 

 100*5 mm. [Three species, four recognizable forms. Range, the 

 western Ethiopian forest region.] 



Skull (fig. 30). — Palate broader than in Rou^ettus (p. 17, 

 fig. 2), particularly in its postdental portion, but not broadened 

 to the same degree as in Plerotes (p. 484, fig. 28), breadth across 

 outer surfaces of crowns of m'-ra' less than total length of maxillary 

 tooth-row; postdental palate flattened as in Plerotes and Hypsi- 

 gnathxis (and Fruit-bats generally), not deeply hollowed out 



