746 JIKG.U.DGhOSSUS ■WOKKJIA^M AXl) ,M.\('Ii08L<JSSUS. 



Specimens e<cuiiiiiud. Kight, viz. those catalogued b';li)W and one 

 adult female from Scliicft'eliiisville, Liberia (Leydeii Museum). 



Mange. The western Ethiopian forest region, from Congo west- 

 ward at least to Liberia. tSo i'ar recorded from : — Lower Congo 

 (Netoiina), Gaboon (Siljange), Spanish Guinea, Cameroons(Ekandu ; 

 Efulen ; Assobam ; liitye), Gold Coast (Kibianaha), and Liberia 

 (Junk It. ; St. Paul's U.). 



Ti/pi', in the Hamburg Museum, 2 ''t^-i Sibange farm, Gaboon, 

 collected by H. Soyaux ; forearm (according to I'agenstecher) 

 45 mm. 



a, b. 2 O ad. -aL ■ EfuWu, Camerouii.-.. (f. L. Kates [C.]. Ci. 2 A. 34,^0. 



skull of no. ••14. 

 «, cZ. cj" siibacl., 5 ad. Efulen. Camerooiis, G. L. B.ttes [G.]. 0.2.4.44,45. 



sks.; skull of 1500-1800': 7, 1 

 no. 45. Jan. 1902. 



e. c( ad. al. Assobam, R. Euniba, G. L. Bnifs [C.]. 11.5.5.5. 



R. Ja, Cameroon s. 

 /: ^ ad.sk. : skull. Bitye, R. Ja, 2000' ; G. L. Bales [C.]. 11.5 5.4. 



15 Dbl: 1909. 

 o. J ad, sk.; skull. Bibianalia, Gold Coast, Dr.H.G. F.Spur- 11.1.22.1. 

 700' ; 26 Dec. 1910. rell [C & I'.J. 



MO. MACROGLOSSUS, F. Cuvicr. 



Macroglossus (pt.), Dobson, Cat. Chir. B. M. p. li.>. 



Type. 



1824. Macroglossu.i, F. Cuvie^v. Dent.s Mamni. p. 248 

 {ncc Macroglossura, 8copoli, 1777, a genus of 

 Lepidoptera) M. ni. niiniuuis. 



1840. Kiodotus, BUjth, Cuvier\% An. Kiiujd. p. ()9, 

 foctnote (to replace tlie "preoccupied " Mncro- 

 (/loasus) ^I. ui. minimus. 



1848. liliynchocyou, Oistel, Natiin/. lliien: p. i.x (ncc 

 lihynclioc\ on, Peters, 1847, a genus of In- 

 sectivora) (to replace the " preoccupied "' 

 Macro(/ln.<tsus) M. m. minimus. 



169 1 . Carponycteris, Lyelehlcer, in Flutcer ^ Lydelliev\<! 

 Metmm. p. 654 (to replace the "preoccupied" 

 Macvoejlitssiis) M. m. mininnis. 



1002. Odontonycteris, Jentink, Notes Leyd. Mvs. \x\\\. 



p. 140 "(J"ly) ^^- 1- lagi'chilus. 



. Pteropus (pt.), E. Geoffmj, Ann. Mus. d'llist. Nat. xv. p. 94 (1810 : 

 genus PterojiiK, part of section **, " lloussettes a queue"); 

 Dexvutrcsf, Miiiiini.i. \^. 110(1820: as F,. Geoffrov) ; Horsfield, 

 Zool. lie.<. Jam, fasc. 3, p. — (1821 : habits) ; Tevmdnck, Mo». 

 Mamni. i. p. 191 (1825: genus Pteropus, second section) ; Gray, 

 (rriffitk's An. Kingd. v. p. 57 (1827 : genus T'esj)ertilwnid(p, 

 subjenus Pteropus, part of second section); J. B. P'iscJwr, 8yn. 

 Matnm. Y>. 88 (1829: genus P^wo^jms, section ttt) ; Blainville, 

 Ost. Mamni., Atl. i. Clieir. pl«. vi., xiii. (1840 : skull and dentition 

 of M. munmns subrinus). 

 r.idolou {])t.), T'ajiiiesrjne, Aiiaf. Nat. p. •'54 (1815: name proposed 

 for E. (ieoHViiy's second section of Pfempns, '■ Ivmssettes a queue " 



