540 Ki'OMoniouns gajibianus. 



Externally very similar to E. crypturus, but couspieuouyly larger. 

 Vertical fasciie of iiiesopatagium of adults varying individually 

 between lo and 24 («. ;/. in three adults from Freetown, Sierra 

 Leone, respectively i;^, 19, and 24). Hairing of tibia distinctly 

 shorter and thinner than in E. wahlhergi and cnjpturus. 



Colour of fur of npperside generally some tinge of cafe-au-lait, or 

 inclining to wood-brown, but varying individually within the same 

 limits as in E. ivaklben/i and crypturus, the darkest and lightest 

 extremes being sometimes represented in specimens from the same 

 locality and season ; abdominal patch in adults sometimes present 

 and rather well-defined, though scarcelj- as sharply marked off as 

 in many E. annrus, often obsolescent, indicated only by a rather 

 greyer tinge of the centre of the underparts, ofren again entirely 

 absent. Of a series of six skins from Thies, Senegal, all collected 

 in June or July, one has the back a very light tinge of wood-brown 

 ( luift'y wond-brown), underparts similar, but a little duller, and 

 with an ill-defined lighter area on belly ; in a second the back is 

 much darker, dark wood-brown, tinged with pale cinnamon, breast 

 and flanks light greyish hnir-brown with middle of belly rather 

 sharply defined greyish-white ; in a third the back is an iudefinire 

 tinge of brownish, somewhat approaching Proufs brown, though 

 distinctly washed with hair-brown, underparts much lighter ; the 

 three others are more or less intermediate. Most of the Togo 

 specimens seen (all alcoholic) are similar to the first of the above 

 described specimens from Thies, but one is still conspicuously 

 ])aler (approaching cream-butty above), while another is as dark as 

 the darkest specimen from Thies. 



Measurements. On pp. 545, 547, 549, 55 1 , 553. 



Specimens examined. Fifty, in the collections of the Leyden (two), 

 Berlin (twenty-one), Fraukfort-on-Main (two), Lisbon (one), and 

 British Museums, from : — 



Senegal : — Thies : six, skulls of four. 



Gambia: — Nine, skulls of eiyht, iucluding the type and four parat_ypes (ail 

 with skulls) of the species, and the type of Ptcivpus epomophorus 

 and wJiiiei. 



Portuguese Guinea: — Bolama : type of E. (juiucensis. 



Sierra Leone : —Freetown : tl]ree, with skulls. 



Gold Caast : — "Gold Coast," Pel coll.: three; Accra: three, skidl of one; 

 Ganibaga, N. Territory : three, with skulls. 



ToD-o: — "Togo": two; Kradji: five, skull of one: Kunjuruma: lln-eo, in- 

 cluding type (with skull) of E. zechi ; Grand Popo : one. 



Zvigeria: — Lagos: three, skull of one; Benin; one, with skull; Jebba : one, 

 with skull ; Gombe : two. 



Sennaar (Riippell Colleetion):— Two, skull of one. 



South Abyssinia (Omo R.) :— Djiren, Djimma, 7^ 40' N.. 37° E., O. Neumann 

 coll. : one, with skull ; Djala, G-.fa, (P 20' N., 36° .50' E., O. Neu- 



■j; mann coll.: one, with skull. — Tbe skulls and skins of the Sennaar 



and Omo River specimens have been compared directly with 

 western specimens and found identic.d ; palate-ridges as in these, 

 not as in E. pousargucsi. 



Earliest technical names. — .i series of specimens collected by 

 Lieutenant Eendall at Gambia were brought to London by his brother 



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