50(J EPOMOPS DGBSONI. 



Specimens examined. Eight, in the collections of the Leyden and 

 British Museums, viz. six (incl. type) from Liberia, two from Sierra 

 Leone. 



Range. Known with certainty only from Sierra Leone and 

 Liberia, but probably of wider distribution along the Guinea coast. 



Type, in the Leyden Museum, an adult male, preserved in 

 alcohol, collected by Stampfli at SchiefFelinsville, Junk River, 

 Liberia (Cat. Syst. Mamm. p. 137, Ejjomophorus gamhianus, speci- 

 men c) ; total length of skull 59-5 mm., forearm 100"5. The 

 characters given above are entirely different from those on which 

 the species was based by Matschie, who believed it to be a Liberian 

 representative of Epomophorus " macroeeplialas." 



a. 5 ^^- al- ; Bkull. Sierra Leone. Purchased (Stevens). 6G.2.2.1.* 



b. (5 ad. al. ; skull. Sierra Leone. E. Anuy Medical College 9.1.4.4.t 



[P]. 



c. cJ ad. al. ; skull. Grand Bassa, Li- Dr. A. McCloy [P.]. 8.7.27.1. 



beria. 



3. Epomops dobsoni, Socage. 



Epomophorus dobsoni, Socage, J. Sci. Math. Lishoa, (2) i. p. 1, tip:. 1 

 (palate-ridges), p. 14 (March, 1889 : Qiiindumbo) ; Mat.^chie, 

 3Iitth. Geogr. Ges. Liibeck, (2) H. vii.-viii. p. 133 (1894) ; 

 Trouesmrt, Cat. Mamm. i. p. 88, n. 474 (1897) ; Bocaqe, J. Sci. 

 Math. Lisboa, (2) v. p. 136, fig. 2 (palate-ridges) (1898 : Quin- 

 dumbo ; Galanga; Hanha) ; Seabra, t.c. p. 165 (1898) ; Thomas 

 ^ Wroiighton, Ann. Sf Mai). N. II. (7) xvi. p. 170 (1905: 

 Kalonga, Bih(5, 6200') ; MiUcr, Fam. Sf Ge7i. Bats,^. &7 (\Q07). 



Epomophorus (Epomops) dobsoni, Maischie, Megachir. -p. 57 (1899) ; 

 Trouessart, Cat. Mamin., Suppl. p. 58. n. 525 (1904). 



Epomophorus zenkeri (nee Matuchie), Dollman, Ann. 8( Mag. N. II. 

 (8) iii. p. 349 (male, no. 1) (1909 : Kambove, Katanga). 



Cliaracters. — Palate-ridges as described and figured p. 489, 

 fig. 31 C. Cranial characters essentially as in E. huettihoferi ; 

 rostrum and palate very long, skull even narrower across zygomata 

 than in E. hueitikoferi, its zygomatic breadth (in single adult male 

 skull available) not quite equal to half its total length, mandible 

 still weaker, its condyles rather lower down as compared with 

 alveolar line. Teeth relatively smaller, lower canines slanted more 

 conspicuously outward. General size of animal (foreann of male 

 about 88 mm.) smaller than E. buettil-oferi, scarcely exceeding E. f. 

 strepitans, hnt skull nearly equal in length to that of E. buettiJcoferi. 



Colour. — (S ad. skin, teeth almost iinworn, specimen a, infra | 



(fur probablj" considerably bleached during life of specimen) : 

 Upperside approximately wood-brown, palest on nape of neck ; 

 breast and flanks brownish fawn ; colour of centre of breast and 

 belly conspicuously paler but not forming a well-defined abdominal i, 



patch ; epaulettes and tufts at bases of ears whitish. Two immature |] 



* Palate-ridges figured by Dobson (l. c. ; figure in certain respects inaccurate), 

 t Specimen on which Dobson based his auatouiical notes ou " Epumophonis 

 franqueti " (11. cc). 



