408 EI'OMOrs FJiANQLfETI FHANQrKTI. 



xxili. Afd. iv. 11. ]. p. 1") (1898 : Itdlfi) ; Cnlinrt, Mem. Soc. I!.<p. 



II. iV. i. Mem. i. p. ti (1903) ; Mi//er, Fani. ^- Gen. Bats. p. (iJ 



(1907) : A'. Andersen, Ann. S,- Mai/. N. 11. (S) v. p. 100 (1910 : 



sjiionynious with E. fraiiqueti). 

 Epomopliorus (Epomops) complus (pt.), ATafarhie, Megachir. p. 57 



(1899 : Aqua Town, Victoria, Muniro, Kribi, Yaunde, in Cameroon; 



Uonsfila, Gaboon; M.ilange, Loanda) ; Trovessart, Cat. Mamm., 



Sicppl. p. 58, n. 624 (1904). 

 Epomopliorus gambianus (nee Ogilhy), Peters, MB. Ak. Berlin, 



1876, p. 474 (Dongila, Gaboon). 



Characters. See p. 496, and detailed measurements on pp. 509- 

 513. 



Specimens examined. Twenty-seven, in the collections of the 

 Leyden (one), Berlin (fourteen), Paris (one), and British Museums, 

 from : — Old Calabar (three, with slaills) ; Cameroons (Bitye ; 

 A'ictoria ; Kribi ; Yaunde ; Aqua Town ; Mungo ; Bipindi ; Klein 

 Batanga : twelve, skulls of nine) ; SpanLsh Guinea (Benito R. : 

 one, with skull); Gaboon (Dongila ; Elloby ; ConioR.: four, with 

 skulls, incl. type); Loanda (Malange : one, with skuU) ; Niara- 

 Niam (Seinio ; one, with skull); Tingasi (one, with skull); 

 Seraliki 11. (one, with skull) ; Bukoba (one, with skull) ; uncertain 

 localities (two). 



Range. From Old Calabar (where it probably meets the smaller 

 western race, E. f. sirepitans), south to Loanda (Malange), east 

 to Niam-Niam, Scmliki River, and Bukoba. 



Type, in the Paris Museum, a mounted adult male ; far some- 

 what faded, collected by Franquet in '• Gaboon," register number 

 A 107; skull sejiarate, register number A 6767 (Mus. d'anat. 

 comp.), figured by Tomes (I. c), now less complete than represented 

 in the figure, but all dimensions precisely agree; teeth worn, 

 i^ present on both sides, palate-ridges destroyed. 



Epomo2)horvs comjHus, H. Allen; 1861. — Type locality, " ^V. 

 Africa"; as having been collected by Du Chaillu the specimen is 

 no doubt from Gaboon. Type in the collection of the Academy of 

 Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, an unmounted skin, skull extracted, 

 soft palate destroyed, i^-i" absent, forearms broken. Is the female of 

 tl;e present species (see Ann. & Mag. N, H. (8) v. p. 100). 



a. $ad. al. Lidth de Jeiule 67.4.12.324. 



Coll. 

 /;. Ad. al. W. Africa. A. Murray, Esq. 70.3.29.14. 



[P.]. 

 c-e. c? ad- 2 »'1., rf Old C'Hlabar {TJ): Dr. J. A. Smith 80.7.21.1, 

 pull. al.; skulls Ro/,b). [P.]. 3,4. 



of r, d. 

 /. J ad. sk. ; skull. Bitye, R. Jfl, Ca- G. L. Bates [C.]. 9.10.2.2. 

 nierooiis, 20(10' ; 

 20 June, 19U9. 

 g. 5 juv. al. ; skull. Benito R., Spanish G. L. Bates [C.]. 98.5.4.1D. 

 Guinea; Jan. -Feb. 

 1898. 

 A. 2 f.d. al.; skull, Ellobv, Gaboon. H. F. Ansell, Esq. 7t.l0.6.2. 



