624 EroMoruoRus wahlbergi haldeuani. 



Characters. — Skull, teeth, and external dimensions averaging 

 conspicuously smaller ; see p. 522 and detailed measurements 

 pp. 544, 546, 548, 550, 552. 



Specimens examined. Fifty-five, in the collections of the Leyden 

 (one), Berlin (twenty-seven), and British Museums, from the 

 following localities : — 



Cameroons: — One (cJ imrn.). 



Gaboon : — Three, skulls of two. 



Cabinda: — Cbinchoxo : four, including type (with skull) oi E. zenkeri. 



Loanda ; — Duque de Bragan9a : two, with skulls ; Pungo Andongo : four, 



skulls of three; Dondo : six, with skulls; Malange : three; 



" Angola," Monteiro and Welwitsch coll. : four, skulls of two, 



including the specimen (with skull) catalogued by Matschie as 



" E. sjiec. nov. ? " (1. c). 

 Benguela: — Caconda ; one (cJ imm.). 

 Welle E. : — Semio : one. 

 Uritish East Africa: — Kitui : four, skulls of three; Malindi : four, skulls of 



three (all well-pronounced haldemani); Takaungu : ten, skulls 



of two (all haldemani) ; Mombasa : three, with skulls, including 



type of E. neumanni (all haldemani). 

 German East Africa : — Dar-es-Salam : one adult, with skull (in every respect 



a well-pronounced haldemani), one young (too immature for 



allocation to subspecies); Zanzibar: one adult, with skull (iu 



every respect a haldemani). 

 Uncertain localities : — Two, with skulls. 



Range. From the Cameroous south to Benguela, east through 

 the Welle Iliver district (Niara-Niam) to British and Germ;in 

 East Africa (Kitui, Halindi, Takaungu, Mombasa, Dar-es-Sulam, 

 Zanzibar). In British and German East Africa it meets and 

 occurs together with the larger eastern and south-eastern race of 

 the species, E. iv. wahlbenji. [Compare Hipposideros eaffer 

 centralis and coffer, the former ranging from the west coast of 

 Africa through the Congo valley to British and German East 

 Africa, where it meets and occurs together with the dominant race 

 of the eastern side of the continent, H. c. caffer.~] 



Type, in the collection of the Academy of Natural Sciences, 

 Philadeli>hia, Penn., an adult female preserved in alcohol, skull 

 extracted, soft palate intact, ticketed " W. Africa," obtained from 

 " Dr. Goheen, Physician to the American Colonization Society " 

 (from this it might be supposed that the specimen came from 

 Liberia ; there can be little doubt, however, that it was obtained 

 elsewhere in W. Africa ; no form of Epomophorus with the palate- 

 ridoes of the waldhergi type is known to inhabit the Guinea coast 

 west of the Cameroons). Wrongly identified by Matschie (189U), 

 on the basis of the original description, with the female of Hypsi- 

 g>ucthus monstrosus, an error corrected by James A. G. Rehn in 1902 

 {I. c). Ee-examined for the present writer by Ilehn iu 1909 : 

 palate " exactly as in Dobson's figure of E. gambiamis," skull, total 

 length 49, mandible 38, c-m' (crowns) 17'2, forearm 81-5 mm. 

 (in litt.). 



Epomophoi-us zenkeri, Matschie ; 1899. — Lectotype, $ ad. skin, 

 skull extracted, collected by Falkenstein at Chinchoxo, Cabinda, 



