Epoinophorus sclioeiisis (iieo liiippcll), F'dziiujer, SB. Ak. U'ieii. liv. 



Abtli. i. p. 544 (pt.) (186G : Bellegas It ) ; id., op. c. Ix. Ablli. i. 



]). 613 (pt.) (1870) ; Mafschie, Meyachir. p. 53 (l^'ii'i) : Kiriinba; ; 



Neumann., Zool. Jahrb., Sj/.sf. xiii. p. 536 (1900 : ? Ussoj);)) ; 



Thomas, in JofmstoJi'it The Uganda I'rotectorate, i. p. 421 (1902); 



Trouesmrt, Cat. Mnmni., Snppl. p. 57, n. 519 (1904;; Ffsia, 



Duke of Abriizzi's 11 Ruivenzori. i. p. 75, pi. vi. ligs. 1, 4, 7, 8, 9, 



10 (ski'iUs oi <S and 2 ) (1909; Ruwenzoii). 

 Epoiuoplioi-us labiatus (^nec Temm.), Peters, MB. Ak. Berlin, 1807, 



p. 8G9 (pt.); Dobmn, Cat. Chir. B. M. p. 11 (pt.) (1878); 



'i Mvnticelli, Ann. Mm. Civ. Genova, (2) v. p. 524 (1887 : Ivereii) ; 



JfuUnk, Cat. (M. Mamnt. p. 251, skull a (1887); id., Cat. Si/U. 



Mnmm. p. 137, sper-iincn 6 ('18S8 : " Abv.s.siiiia '') ; Troucssart, 



Cat. Mamnt. i. p. 88, n. 477 (pt.j (1897). " 

 Pteropus (Kpoinophoi'Utj) labiatus, Heuglin, Reifie N.O.-Afr. ii. 



p. 15 (1877 : Jiellegas li. ; babits). 

 Epomophonis minor {nee Dohson), Thomas, P. Z. S. 1890. p. 446 



(pt.) (Kiriamo) ; id., P. Z. 8. 1891, p. 182 (Tunjiiel) ; MutscAie, 



Mi'f/achir. p. 51 (pt.) (1899: Ujiji); Troitessart, Cat. Mainm., 



Sujjpl. p. 57, n. 518 (pt.) (1904). 

 Epoiuophoi'us gambianus (pt., nee Ogilhif), Mntschie, Mitth. Geoijr. 



Ges. Liibeck. (2) II. vii.-viii. p. 133 (1894 : Kiriniba). 

 Epoiiiophorus dorias, Mafschie, Mec/achir. p. 54 (1899: " Bogos "); 



Trouessart, Cat. Afamm., Suppl. p. 57, n. 521 (1904); Senna, 



Arch. Zool. (Napolij ii. p. 356 (1905). 



Diagnosis. — Four interdental, two postdeiital palate-ridges. Skull, 

 total length 46-49 (males) and 40-45 mm. (females), mandible 

 :i(j-8-39 (males) and 3L-5-3G-5 (females), c-m\ crowns l()-17-2 

 (males) and 14"6-16 (females), forearm 71"o-78 (males) and 

 6G'5-74 (females). Ilab. From Er3'threa, Seunaar and Ab3-ssinia, 

 south through Bahr-el-Ghazal, Uganda, and iiritish East Africa, 

 to Massailand and Tanganyika. 



Bescription. — lleadily distinguished from E. u'ahlberffi bv the 

 different arrangement of the palate-ridges (two, not one, postdental 

 ridges), and from E. labiatus and minor \)x its larger siz(! (see 

 '• Remarks " below). Skull heavier than in the two latter species, 

 ■with relatively longer rostrum and palate; median palatal length 

 (incisive foramina to palation) in males slightly more, in females 

 slightly less, than twice the breadth across the external surfaces of 

 ra'-m' ; postdental palate (posterior edge of ni' to postero-extorual 

 corner of bony palate) in males nearly equal to, in females rather 

 more than |, of same breadth ; rostrum (front of orbit to tip of nasals) 

 equal to or more than length of maxillary tooth-row ; front of orbit 

 in males above posterior point, in females above posterior half, of 

 m^ Size of teeth and arrangement of palato-ridges as in E. labiatus. 

 Vertical fasciae of mesopatagium 15-21. Males much larger than 

 females. 



Colour of cT ad. (skin), teeth unworn, liuwenzori S.E., 17 June, 

 6.12.4.9: — Back uniform dark fawn-brown (a tinge between 

 Trout's brown and vandyck-brown, but ^varmer than either, and 

 washed with deep fawn), shading into a rather paler fawn-browa 

 on nape of neck and head. Foreneck and Ranks much paler than 

 back, deep fawn with a tinge of drab. A large •whili>h patch 



