5G2 NANONYCTERIS VEI.DKAMri. 



EpoYitops. As iilieady mentioned aliove. the four anterior ridges 

 of Nanonycteris are practicall}- similar in position to the four 

 anterior ridges of Epomops frawjueti and, as in that species, the three 

 anterior of these ridges are undivided, the fourth slightlj- divided: the 

 eight or nine posterior ridges of JVauoni/cleris are homologous with 

 the five to seven posterior ridges of E. franqueti ; in ]S\(nonycteris 

 these ridges are peculiarly modified, being thickened and elevated 

 along the middle of the ])alate, depressed and very thin laterally. 

 This is almost exactly the reverse of the type of piilate-ridges 

 exhibited by Micvoptcroinis, in v.hich the soft palate is marked, not 

 ■with a keel, hut with a deep and broad groove along the middle and 

 the ridges reduced to thickened prominences along either side of the 

 groove. Externally the present genus is readily distinguished from 

 Micropteropns by its narrow muzzle. 



1. Nanonycteris veldkampi, Jenfinl: 



Epomopliorus veldlcauipi, Jeuthih, Notes Leyil. Mux. x. p. til (Dec. 



1887 : Buluma, Fisherman Luke, Liberia) ; id., Cat. Si/sf. Mainvi. 



p. V-'8 (1888: tvpe) ; Biittikofer, lieheiild. Liberia, ii. p. 471 



(1890) ; Trowssnrt, Cat. Mamm. i. p. SU, n. 481 (18!;t7). 

 Epomophorus (Nanonycteris) veldkampi, Motschie, Meyuc/u'r. p. oiJ 



(1899: Gold Coast; Togo; Lagos): Twuesmrt. Cat. Mantvi.., 



Suppl. p. bi^, n. 527 (1904). 

 Epomopliorus comptus (nee II. Allen), Jentinic, Cat. Syst. Mamm. 



p. 138, specimen b (1888: Elmina). 

 Epomophorus pusillus {>u-e l\'ters), Maiac/ii'e, Mitth. Geoyr. dex. 



Lubeck, (2) II. vii.-viii. p. l-j-'t (pt.) (1894 : Togo ; LagosJ. 



Fur. — Proximal half of forearm and the Avliole of the tibia 

 clothed above. Length of fur ; back 10, nape of neck 9, belly 

 7 mm. 



Colour. — S !ik, slightly immature, Ashantce : Back light russet 

 (between russet and wood-brown), slightly tinged with pale fawn, 

 underparts nearly cream-buft'. — $ subad. al., South Nigeria : Eack 

 brownish drab, distinctly washed with Prout's brown, lightening 

 to almost typical drab on nape of neck and head ; undcrjjarts light 

 grevish drab. — The former is the lightest, the latter the darkest 

 extrem.e seen ; the other specimens examined (if not faded) are inter- 

 mediate, though generally rather nearer the light-coloured Ashantce 

 .specimen. It would seem Irom this that the extent of individual 

 colour variation is the same as in Epomops, Fpomopilivnis, and 

 Mlcropteropvs. 



Measurements. See pp. 573-575. 



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

 Eerlin (six), and British Musenms, from tlie following localities : — 

 Liberia (type), Gold Coast (Ashantee, Elmina, Accra : three, skull 

 of one), Togo (Bismarckburg, Kradji, Misahohe : four, skull of one), 

 Lagos (one, with skull), Oban, S. ^S'igeria (one, with skull). 



llawje. Thus far only known fi'om the Guinea Coast, from Liberia 

 in the west to South 2vigcria in the cast, ,. ,, „, ■ niijii't- 



