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13. EPOMOPHORUS. 



Skull elongate, narrow. Face as long as the brain-case, zygomatic 

 arches flattened. The iipper cutting-teeth close, rather crowded to- 

 gether in the centre of the intercaniuc space. Head large. Muzzle 

 elongate, conical, acute, the lips much dilated behind at the angle of 

 the mouth. Tail rudimentary, only a tubercle. "Wings far back. 

 Neck with a tuft of hair on each side. Lower joint of the thumb 

 nearly half the length of the upper one, which is enclosed in a broad 

 membrane. Teeth 2S. Pack, shoulders, thighs, and lower part of 

 the upper surface of the arm hairy. Dorsal surface of wing near 

 back rather bald. Wing to the base of the toes. Grinders -i, far 

 apart, with a small false grinder in front below. 



Epomophorus, Bennett., Trans. Zool. Soc. ii. p. .38 ; Tomes, P. Z. S. 

 1860, p. 42. Pachysoma, sp., Temm. Esq. p. 64, 1853. 



The teeth are often very imperfect, the grinders sometimes entirely 

 wanting ; the cheek-pouches very large. Eating figs. — Br. Kirk. 



Face very lonr/, much longer from the eyes to the nose than from the 

 eyes to the ears. 



1. Epomophorus macrocephalus. B. M. 



Brown. Male. Underside rufous, middle whiter ; throat rufous ; 

 large tuft on the shoulders, smaller one in front ; base of ears white. 

 Female. Greyer beneath. 



Pteropus macrocephalus, Oyilhy, P. Z. S. 1835, p. 101 ; Peters, Mos- 

 samb. i. p. 30. P. eponiophonis, Bennett, P. Z. S. 1835, p. 149. 

 P. megacepliahis, Siraiiisnn, Lardners Ency. p. 02. Epomophorus 

 whitei, Bennett, Trans. Zool. Soc. ii. p. 38, t. 6. I'l macrocephalus. 

 Tomes, P. Z. S. IStiO, p. 43; 1861, p. 12, t. 1. f. 1, la, & 7. Piicby- 

 soma whitei, Temm. Esq. pp. 65 & 71, 1853. P. macrocephalum, 

 Temm. Esq. pp. 65 & 71, 1853. 



Hah. West xMrica : Gambia, Rendall. 



Malett, from Gambia and Zambesi, have a length, from eye to tip of 

 nose (in spirit), of 1^ inch ; and in i\\Q female the length from eye to 

 tip of nose is 1 inch. In both sexes the gland of shoulder very large, 

 deep, with thickened edges, covered with white hairs. In some fe- 

 males, from Angola and the Gambias, the length from eye to tip of 

 nose is 1 inch, and the gland of shoulder is scarcely marked. 



Yar. nnr/olensis. Pale brown ; head ^vith a dark streak fi-om the 

 nostrils to the front of the lower edge of the eye, and a second rather 

 above and parallel with the upper lip ; chest and beneath whitish ; 

 epaulette pale brown ; forearm 3j inches. Female. B, M. 



Hub. Angola, Monticro (in spirit). 



Var. unicolor. Brown above and below ; epaulet wliitc, rather 

 smaU. B. M. 



Hah. Banks of the Zambesi at Shupanga. Eating figs. Kirk. 



