F.rojiopnoEcs waulef.rgi wahlbkrgi. 527 



ZooJ. Jnhrb., Syst. xiii. p. o8fi (1900 : Mojoui, Zanzibar) ; Troties- 

 sart, Cat. Mmnni., Suppl. p. 57, n. 51(3 (pt.) (1904). 

 Epomopborus neumaiini, ? Neumayin, Zool. Jahrh., Syst. xiii. p. 5.3i) 

 (1900: ]Moshi, Kilimainuro) : ? Lonnberr/, Kilimandjaro-Meni 

 Exp. pt. ii. p. 6 (1908 : >>gare Nairobi, nr. Kibouoto, Kilimanjaro). 



Characters. — Skull, teeth, and external dimensions averaging? 

 conspicuously larger ; see p. 522 and detailed measurements 

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



Specimens examined. Fifty-one, in the colkctions of the Stock- 

 holm (one), Leyden (two), Berlin (twenty-three), and British 

 Museums, from the following localities : — 



Brilish East Africa : — Bit Kenya (Smara and Ft. Hall) : two, with skulls. 

 German East Africa: — Moshi, Kilimanjaro: two, skull of one; Zanzibar: 



six, skulls of two; Dar-es-Salaui : four; Vikindo, Usaramo: 



six, with skulls, including type of E. s/uhlmanni ; Lindi : one, 



witl) skull. 

 Zauibesia : — Zoniba: one; Shupanga : tbree, with skulls, and one odd skull, 



including type of E. vmcrocephaius var. unicolor; Quellimane: 



one; Maseuibeti, Beira : two, with skulls. 

 Lin)popo : — lubambane : two, witb skulls ; Zoutpausberg: one, with skull. 

 E. Cape Colony: — Ngoye forest, Zululand : one, with skull; Natal: seven, 



skulls of three ; Tugela E., Natal : type, with skull, of Pteropus 



wahlbergi ; Ft. St. John, Pondoland : one, witb skull ; Grahanis- 



tnwn : eight, skulls of five. 

 Uncertain locabtv : — One, witb skull, Berlin Museum, specimen no. 3.56, 



skull no. 10084 (" E. gambianus," Matscbie, Megacbir. p. .55, 



pi. s. figs. 2 a-c). 



Range. From British East Africa (Mt. Kenya), south through 

 German East Africa, the Zambesi and Limpopo valleys, to eastern 

 Cape Colony, at least as far as Graham.stown. In the equatorial 

 regions of this area it occurs together with the smaller western 

 and northern race of the species, E. w. haklemani. 



Type (by selection) in the Kiksmuseum, Stockholm, a well- 

 preserved mounted adult male, skull separate (nearly perfect), Tugela 

 liiver. Natal, 27 Xov. 1S43, J. ^\'ahlherg coll., Keg. no. 1040. For- 

 warded for examination by Professor Dr. Einar Lonnherg. Skull, 

 total length 53-8, mandible 43-7, c-m' (crowns) 19, m\ length 4-2, 

 mi, length 4, forearm 88 mm. 



Epomophorvs macrocephalus var. unicolor, Gray ; 1870. — Type 

 ( ? yg- ^■d-) in collection. Skull, total length 49, mandible 39, 

 c-m' (crowns) 17'2, m\ length 4-1, m,, length 4, forearm 84 mm. 



Epomophorus stuhhnanni, Matschie ; 1899. — Lectotype, skin and 

 skull of an adult male, Vikindo, Usaramo, German East Africa, 

 Dr. Stuhlmann coll., Berlin Museum, Reg. nos. 9982 (skin) and 

 9983 (skull). Skull incomplete ; mandible 44-8, c-m' (crowns) 

 19"2, m\ length 4"1, mj, length 3-9, forearms incomplete, third 

 metacarpal 60-5 mm. Stated to differ from E. wahlbergi by its 

 smaller size and "ihre gegen die Korperseiten weisslich iiberflogenen 

 Flughiiute." As to the former character, Matschie himself measures 

 the forearms of males of " wahlbergi " 85-86 mm., of " stuhlmanni" 

 85-87, and a female of " stuhlmanni" in the Berlin Museum from 

 Zanzibar has the forearm 89 mm. ; Matschie measures the fore- 



