HYrsiOXATTirs -MOXSTROSrS. 507 



vi. 11. ,3, p. (1890: Liberia; Cameroon); Li/dcHrr, R. Nat. 



Hist. I. p. 258 (la9.3~94) ; Matschie, Mitth. Gcor/r. Ges. Liiberk, 



('2) 11. vii.-viii. ]). l;5.'i (1894: To^o ; Camerouu ; Gaboon); 



Bocaye, J. Sci. Math. Lisbon, (2 ) iv. p. 4 ( 1 S95 : i\[ongola, Feniaiulo 



Po);' iS/osiedf, K. Sv. Vtt.-Ak. Uandl. xxvii. u. 1, pp. l-'i, 



18, 119 (189.'): Cameroon); id., Mitth. B. ISchidziieh. x. p. 31 



(1897: Bon-e; Biknidi ; N'dian ; Itoki): id., Bih.K.Sv. Vef.- 



Ak. Handl. xxiii. Afd. iv. n. 1, p. 11 (1898 : halnts) ; Bocar/e, 



J. Sci. Math. Lisl>oa, (2) v. p. l:io (1898: Fernando Po); 



Seahra, t. e. p. U>5 (1898: Fernando Po) ; Bocaye, op. cit. (2) 



vii. p. 27 (1903: Fernando Po). 

 Epomophonis (Ilypsignatlius) monstrosus, Thcmas, P. Z. S. 1888, 



pp. 7, 16 (Tinu;asi) ; Poiisaryues, Ami. Sci. Nat. (7) Zoo!, iii. 



p.2oO(189H: 0>;o\ve; Bangui); Trouessart, Cat. Mamm., Siippl. 



p. 6o, n. ,50o (1904). 

 Zyg-aenocepbaliis labro.sns, A. Murray, P. Z. S. 18fi2, pi. i. (wliole 



tig-, of d"; front view of muzzle of d) (June, 1862: Old Calabar). 

 Sphyroceplialus labrosus, A. Murray, P. Z. S. 1862, p. 8 (June, 



1862 : Old Calabar) ; Gi-ay, P. Z. S. 1804, p. 55 (specimen 



64.1.25.1: "W. Africa"). 

 Epomophoru.s macrocephalus (7iec Ogilby), Peters, MB. Ah. Berlin, 



1876, p. 474 (Dongila, Gaboon). 

 Epomoptiorus franqueti (nee Tomes), Sjostedt, K. Sv. Vet.-Ah. 



Uandl. xxvii. n. 1, pp. 15, 119 (1895 : Cameroon). 

 Hvpsignathus haldeniani {nee P^pomophorus haldeniar.i, Haltowell, 



'vide Pehn, Am. Nat. xxxvi. p. 202, 1902), Matschie, SB. Ges. 



nat. Fr. 1899, p. 29, fig. (larynx, byoid bone.-, pharyngeal sacs). 

 Epomophorus (Hypsignatbus) baldemani, Matschie, Meyachir. p. 42, 



pi. X. figs. 1 a-d (skulls) (1899: Togo; Cameroon ; Gfaboon). 



i^u?\— Short, deijse, silky, closely adpressed on bruast and belly; 

 approximate length, back 9-10, belly 6-7 mm. Thro.it so thinly 

 haired as to appear scminaked ; dorsal surface of muzzle and sides 

 of same immediately behind the cutaneous folds covered -with very 

 short and tightly adpressed velvety hair, forming a sharply detiiied 

 area contrasting with ordinary fur of bead. Distribution of fur on 

 forearm and tibia as in Ejjomo^^s. 



Colour. — General aspect rather similar to that of Epowops, but 

 often (particularly in males) of a darker, more plumbeous or slate- 

 brown tinge, with the nape of the neck and foreneek paler, 

 forming a more or less well-defined collar, and with the abdominal 

 patch much less distinct or entirely absent. 



c^ ad. skin, teeth almost unworn, Eenito R., 1-1 April: Eack 

 dark plumbeous brown distinctly tinged with a very dark shade of 

 fuwu and passing posteriorly, on rump, femur, and tibia, gradually 

 into a purer brown ; nape of neck light Isabella, approaching dull 

 wood-brown, much paler thau and somewhat contrastinj;; with 

 back ; crown distinctly darker ; hair-tufts at base of ears whitish ; 

 breast, sides of belly, and flanks very nearly simil.-.r to back ; centre 

 of belly conspicuously washed with light greyish drab, but not 

 marked" ofi' as a sharply defined abdominal patch ; foreneek greyish 

 white, forming a transverse band contrasting with dark breast. 



An adult male from Fernan Vaz, Gaboon (skin, teeth almost 

 un-\\orn, 29 Jan.) is similar in colour, but with a conspicuous 

 admixture of greyish hairs on breast, belly, and flanks, and with 



