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tho fcy|)e skull only the rostrura and anterior porLioii of the 

 tnitndible, inclu'ling tlie u])per and lower tooth-rows, are jjresorved. 

 Throe topotypes, collected by Botta., viz. a rnoniited adult male 

 (A 110), a mounted adult female (A 111), both with skulls in. situ, 

 and ail odd skull (A 67S0), are in the Paris iluseum ; the skull was 

 figured by Blainville (I. c.) under the name Pteropus marroctphahis. 

 Type locality of species, Seunaar, not " Abyssinia "' as j;iven by 

 Temminek. The British Museum specimens from lloseires are 

 practically ti)])otypc.s. 



Pterojivs schoi'nsis, lUippell ; 1842. — Type, in the collection of 

 tlie Senckenhergische naturforschende (xesellschaft, Frankfort-on-M. 

 (no. 11. A. 13 a of lUippeirs Catalogue), a mounted specimen of 

 doubtful sex. much faded, but otherwise tolerably well preserved, 

 sent to lliijipell from " dem lleiche Sehoa, siidlich von Abyssinien."' 

 The specimen is not tjuite fuUgrown, forearm 57"5 mm. E. scho'eiisis 

 is undoubtedly a synonym of E. lahiatiis ; the dentition of the tyiie 

 is, tooth for tooth, precisely similar to that of the type of lahiatas, 

 to the Sennaar and Let ilarcfia skulls in the Paris ITuseum, and 

 the lloseires skulls in the British Museum, and decidedly difl'crcnt 

 from that of E. minor. The Leyden specimen, E. hihiatusa, o ad., 

 " Abyssinia," Biippell, l)elongs here, and is perhaps even a paratype 

 or topotype of /i". scJioenais. 



(/, f>. Jimm.. cfyg. Rosoires. Ehie Nilo: Egyptian Governnient 8.-1.] 7.'-. 3. 

 ad. al. ; skulls. Sept. lUOT (Coji/. ZooiogioiJ Gardens 



«. .S'. Fhwer). [P.]. 



3. Eponiophorus minor, Dolson. 



J'^.poniophorus minor, Dohsoii, P. Z. 8. 1879, p. Tl;"> >'^Apr. 1880: 

 Zanzibai) : id., Hep. Brit. A.'<soc. 1880, p. 170 : id., P. Z. S. 1881 , 

 p. 39-3 (digastric); id., t. c. p. 690 (pharynx; larynx; hyoid 

 bones) ; id., Proc. R. Soc. 1881, p. ."^l (digastric) ; id., Trans. Linn. 

 Noc. (2) Zool. ii. pt. V. p. 2(50 (1882: digastric); Noack, Zool. 

 Jnhrb. ii. p. 2(58, pi. x. figs. 28-30 (skull) (1887 : (-ionda, Ugunda) ; 

 Monticelli, Ann. Mic. Civ. Gemiva, (2) v. p. o2.3 (pt.) (1887: 

 Farri) ; Jentink, Cat. Syst. Mamm. p. 136 (1888: Shoa) ; 

 Thoma.'s, P. Z. fi>. 1890, p. 440 ( pt.) (Bagamevo) ; ? Noack, Jahrh. 

 Hamh. Wiss. Am/, ix. p. 58 (1891 : Zanzibar) ; Matschi^, Mitth. 

 Geoijr. G-V.<. lAibeck, (2) 11. vii.-viii. p. 133 (1894 : Zanzibar ; 

 Bagamoyo ; Gonda) ; id., Siiug. D. Ost-Afr. p. IH (1895: 

 Zanzibar ; Bagamoyo ; Gonda) ; id., Deutsckl. u. seine Kolon. 

 p. 9 (1887 : (t. E. Africa) : Trouesmrt, Cat. Mu,am. i. p. 88, 

 n. 473 (1897); Boctuie, J. Sci. Linboa, (2) v. p. 137 (1898: 

 Zanzibar, cotype) : Keabra, t. c. p. 16G (1898) ; Matscliic, 

 Jlef/achir. p. 61 (pt.), pi. xi. fig.s. 2 a-e (skull of J ad., Gonda) 

 (1899: Zanzibar; Bagamoyo; Gonda; Ujiji); Thomas, in 

 Jo/iHston's The TJijandu Protectorate, \. p. 421 (1902) : Troiwssart, 

 Cat. Momm., Su'ppl. p. 57, u. 518 (pt.) (1904) ; Miller, Earn. &,■ 

 Gen. Bats, p. 07 (1907); Lonnberg, Kilimandjaro-Meru E.vp. 

 pt. ii. p. 6 (1908 : Moembe, Usambara). 



Diagnosis. — Closely allied to E. lahiatus, but dentition remark- 

 ably weaker. Ila.h. From Shoa in the north to German East Africa 

 in the south. 



