496 EPOMOPS FRAXQUUXr STTiEPITAXS. 



Victoria Nj-anza, and Semliki lliver, and from Cameroons southward, 

 through Spanish Guinea and Gaboon, to Loanda. 



Sulispecifs. — Two, a smaller western (E. f. strejyitans), ranging 

 from the Gold Coast to Old Calabar, and a larger eastern and southern 

 {E. f. frangueti), ranging from Old Calabar, east to Victoria Mj-anza, 

 and south to Angola. The subspecies differ in size only, and, as 

 shown by the subjoined comparative measurements, this difference 

 is much better pronounced in the skull than in the external dimen- 

 sions, and much better so in the males than in the females ; the 

 latter are sometimes difficult to discriminate : — 



flrcpitan^. franqyeti. strepitmn. franqiicti. 



5 males. 9 males. 2 females. 8 females. 



Skull, total length... 46-8-48 49 -53 41-8-43-5 43 -47 nun. 



Mandible 3fi -39 40 -43 ? - ? 33-8-38 „ 



o-ni', crowns 14-5-16-2 10-5-18 14-5-14-8 14-8-lfl-7„ 



Forearm 88 -895 90-5-96 84-5-85 82 -93 „ 



3rd metacarpal 62-5-65-5 67 -70. 60 -605 60 -66 „ 



Eiir, lengtJi 22 -24 23 -25 21-5- ? 23-5-25-6 „ 



Tibia 31-5-35 33-5-37-5 ? - ? 32 -34-5 „ 



1 a. Epomops franqueti strepitans, K. And. 



Epomophorus i'ranqueti, Peters, MB. Ak. lierltn, 18G7, p. 869 (pt.) 



(Lapos) ; Jcmtink, Cat. Si/st. Mamm. p. 137, specimens a-e, h 



(1888: Gold Coast): MaUchie, Mitth. B. ticlmtztieb. V\. H. iii. 



p. 7 (1893 : Gold Coast ; Lagos; ; id., Mitth. Geoyr. Ges. Liibenk, 



(2) 11. vii.-viii. p. 13."i (1894: Accra; Fauti) ; Trouessart, Cat. 



Mannn. i. p. 89, n.478 (pt.) (1897). 

 EpoiuopUoMis (Epomops) Iraiiqiieti (pt.), Matudiie, Meyuchir. p. 50 



(1899: Accra; 1' anti : Cliristian.-<borg ; Kmdji) ; Troue»s(trt, 



Cat. Mamm., Suppl. p. 58, n. 523 (1904). 

 Epomophorus comptiis (pt.), Matuchie, Mitth. Gengr. Gen. Lilheck, 



(2) II. vii.-viii. p. 132 (1894 : Gold Coast; Lagos) ; Trouesxart, 



Cat. Mamm. i. p. 89, n. 479 (1897). 

 Epomophorus (Ep(miops) eomptus (pt.), Matschie, Meyachir. p. 57 



(189^ : Accra ; Lagosj ; Truuessart, Cat. Mamm., liuppl. p. 58, 



n. 624 (1904). 

 Epomophorus macroceplialiis {nee Oijilbx/), Jentink, Cat. Ost. Mamm. 



'p. 251, .skeleton « (1887 : Gold Coa.st). 

 Epomops franqiieti strepitans, K. Andersen, Ann. ^- Mag. N. H. 



(8) V. p. 10() (3 Jan. 1910: differential characters). 



C7iaraciers. — See above, and detailed measurements on pp. 509- 

 513. 



Sjjecimens eivariived. Nineteen, in the collections of the Leyden 

 (eight), Berlin (four), and British Museums, from the following 

 localities : — Gold Coast (eleven, skulls of four), Togo (one, with 

 skull), Lagos (one, with skull), S. Nigeria (six, with skulls). 



Ecinge. Gold Coast (Accra, Elmina, Fanti) ; Togo (Kradji); 

 Lagos ; 8. Nigeria (Abonnema, Asaba, Oban). In the region of Old 

 Calabar it probably meets the eastern and southern form of the 

 species, E. f. franqueti. 



2'ype in collection. 



