EFOMOl'UOKUS CKYPTl'RFS. aST 



Tiipe (b}' selection) an ariull female, preserved in alcohol, skull 

 separate, Eerlin Museum no. 55;3. Skull, total length 47, mandible 

 .'•58, c-m' (crowns) IT'S, forearm 80 mm. Mo.st of the paratypes are 

 immature ; no adult male (Peters's " ausgewachsenes Manncheu " 

 measured op. c. p. 30 is immature). 



lii'Diarks. — Externally E. cryplmnts is very similar, even in size, 

 to E. wnJiJherrfi, with the eastern and south-6astern race (waJdbergi) 

 of whicli it occurs together. A confusion of the two species is, 

 of course, impossible if the skull and palate-ridges are available for 

 examination. Even without these, alcoholic specinjens of crypturus 

 may be distinguished by tlie smaller number of vertical fasciae of 

 the mesopatagium, about 11-18 (or perhaps a little more) as agninst 

 22-33 in waldhenji. Dried skins of the two species, -with closed 

 wings aud without skulls, are scarcely distinguishable (pale 

 abdominal patch occasionally present in crypturus, a])parently never 

 in wahlhenji). The hairing of the femur and tibia is in wahlberyi 

 often a little longer and denser, but tlie difference is sometimes 

 hardly- appreciable, for practical purposes therefore of very little 

 value. — Slightly immature females of crypturus (e. y. specimens 

 h-d in the list below, from Zomba) are sometimes puzzlingly like 

 adult females of anurus, even in tlie size of the skulls and length of 

 tlie tooth-rows, but generally distinguishable by the rather stouter 

 premolars and molars, and by having the front of the orbit verti- 

 cally above or slightly behind the posterior edge of m' (in anvrus 

 above some point of posterior half of m' ). 



<(. 2 ad. sk.; skull. Dik.ilwe E., Rjitaiiga, S. A. Neave.Esq. 7.12.13.2. 

 40U0'; 17 Mar. [C.]. 

 1007. 



/», f. 2 2 ii.uii. al. ; Zomba, Nyasa (A. Sir H. H. John- f 94.1.2r..-.'3. 



skulls. Whi/ie). ' ston [P.j. tti4.6.7.1. 



d. 2 i'uiii. al. ; Zomba; June-.Aug. Sir H. H. John- 'JbA'-.l .2. 

 skull. IHiiO (J. ffhi/ic). ston [P.], 



<•./■. o" j»^.. 2 !"v. 30 mi. above Tetto; Capt. Bovd 99.8.3.1,2. 

 .sks.: skull's. 1.1 Aug. 1898. Alexander [P.]. 



g. 2 jiiv-sk. ;skull. Tette ; 31 Aug. 1907 C. J:). Kudd, Esq. 8.4.3.8. 



(C. H.B. Grant). [P.]. 



A. [c?] ad. skull. Sliupanga. Sir J. Kirk [P.]. 64.1.9.(i. 



i. 2 .vg ad. sk. ; Ganzima, Umfu'i R., G. A. IC. Mar- 9G..5.18.1. 

 skull. Maslionaland, 4200'; .shall, Esq. [P.] 



29 Aug. 1895. 

 J. cJ .yg. ad. sk.; Ma.^euibeti.Beira, 120'; C. D. Kudd, Esq. 7.G.2.10. 

 skull. S:Soy.l\}M(C.H. [P.]. 



B. GrinitK 

 k. cj ad. sk.; skull. Tzaneeii Estate. Zout- Dr. II. Lvster 9.3 2.3. 

 pansberg. 2500' ; Jameson [C. & 



5 June, 1907. E.]. 



