i)''0 EroMonioRis labiatc?. 



Epomopborus sclioeiisis, Fitziiiger, isB. Ak. H'iett, liv. Abtli. i. 



p. 5U (pt.) (18fir.) ; hI. op. c. Ix. Abth. i. p. 613 (pt.) (1870). 

 ? Epomophorus (Pteiopus) schoeiisis, Marchi, Aiti iSvc. Ifal. Set. 



Nat. XV. p. 518 (1873 : structure of hairs). 

 Epoinoplunus scliovaiius, Heuglin, Heise N.O.-Afr. ii. p. 18 (1877 : 



nom. emend.). 

 Pieropus wliitei (pt., twc Bennett), Hartmann, Zeitsvhr. Ges. Erdk. 



i;('/-/;V;,iii. p. 40(1868). 

 I'pomopliorus minor ("pt., nee Dohson), Monticelli, Ann. 3Ius. Civ. 



Genova, (2) v. p. 523 (1887 : Let Maretia). 



Diagnosis. — Four interdental, two postdental palate- ridgct. 

 Differing from all other species of the genus, except E. minor, by its 

 small size; from E. minor by its heavier dentition. 8kull, total 

 length 'il-'J-'M\-l, mandible 28-31-2, c-m' (crowns) 18-2-15 ; fore- 

 arm 62-GH-5 mm. Hub. Sennaar ; Abyssinia ; Shoa. 



Description. — E,ostrum and palate rather long and narrow, but 

 not lengthened and narrowed to the same degree as in the larger 

 species of the same (the E. gamhianus) section. Median palatal 

 length (incisive foramina to palation) not quite twice the breadth 

 across external surfaces of m^-ni' ; front of orbit above or slightly 

 in front of middle of m'. Dentition heavy for the genus and the 

 feize of the auimal, the individual teeth practically similar in size to 

 those of tlie considerably larger E. anurus. Second palate-ridge 

 between p^-p' ; third between fronts or anterior halves of p''-p'' ; 

 fourth between fronts or anterior halves of m'-m' ; fifth thick, M'ith 

 a lozenge- shaped depression at middle, right and left half of ridge 

 only slightly separated, situated closely behind tooth-rows, a line 

 connecting posterior points of m'-m' touching front of ridge ; sixth 

 thick, very slightly divided at middle, situated at middle of post- 

 dental palate (compare fig. 37 C, ]). 516, palate-ridges of E. minor). 

 Vertical fascias of meso])atagium (those crossing the main internal 

 cutaneous lino) about 14-15. Whitish abdominal patch generally 

 present, sometimes obsolescent. Sexual difference in size none or 

 quite inconspicuous. 



Mensm-ements. On pp. 544, 546, 543, 552. 



Specimens e.vamined. Nine, from the following localities: — 



Sennaar, Butta coll.; — Type of siieiMes, with skull (Lejdou); two mounted 

 specimens (Paris, A 110, A 1 1 1) ; one odd skull (Paris, A 6780). 



Roseires: — Two, with skulls, as catalogued below. 



"Abyssinia," Eiippell Collection :— One (Leyden). 



" Shoa," Eiippell Collection : — 'J'ype, "ith .skull, of Pfcropnsivhoi/igi.^ (Mii.=eiin) 

 Senckenberg i. 



Let Marefia, Shoa, Antinori coll. :— One, with skidl (Paris, 1885, no. 189). 



Type. — Temminck had two specimens " acquis, I'un a Londres 

 sans indications de patiie, I'autre a Paris, provenant des collections 

 de M. Botta." Only the latter specimen is now in the Leyden 

 Museum (E. laointus. Cat. Syst. specimen c, Cat. Ost. skull b). It 

 is a young individual, mounted, much faded, but otherwise tolerably 

 wellpreserved : profile of head figured in Mon. Mamm. ii. pi. xxxix. 

 fig. 3 (originals of figs. 1 and 2 of same plate not identih'ed). Of 



