226 CATALOGUE OF UNGULATES 



1. Subgenus KOBUS. 



Large, heavily-built antelopes, with coarse, grizzled coat, 

 not reversed on back, heavily maned neck, and, in the males, 

 long, stout sublunate, forwardly inclined horns. 



The two species are distinguished as follows : — 



A. A white elliptical band on rump K. cUipsiprymnus, 



B. No white rump- band K. defassa. 



Distribution co-extensive, in suitable localities, with that 

 of the genus. 



I. KOBUS ELLIPSIPEYMNUS. 



Antilope elhpsiprymnus, Ogilbij, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1833, p. 47, Penny 

 Encylopoedia, vol. ii, p. 88, 1834 ; Owen, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1836, 

 p. 38 ; Wagner, Schreher's Sdugthiere, Suppl. voL iv, p. 434, 

 1844, vol. V, p. 434, 1855; Peters, Beise nach Mossambique, 

 Sdiigeth. p. 189, 1852. 



Aigoceros elhpsiprymnus, A. Smith, S. African Quart. Journ. vol. ii, 

 p. 186, 1834. 



Aigocerus ellipsiprymnus, Harris, Wild Sports S. Africa, p. 387, 

 1839, ed. 5, p. 351, 1852, Wild Anim. S. Africa, p. 71, pi. xiv, 

 1840. 



Kobus elhpsiprymnus, A. Smith, Illustr. Zool. S. Africa, Mamm. 

 pt. xii, pis. xxviii and xxix, 1840 ; Gray, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 

 ser. 1, vol. xviii, p. 232, 1846, ser. 3, vol. iv, p. 296, 1859, Proc. Zool. 

 Soc. 1850, p. 130, Knoivsley Menagerie, p. 15, 1850, Cat. Tin- 

 gulata Brit. Mus. p. 99, 1852, Cat. Buminants Brit. Mus. p. 15, 

 1872, Hand-List Buminants Brit. Mus. p. 86, 1873; Gerrard, 

 Cat. Bones Mamm. Brit. Mus. p. 239, 1862 ; Sclater, Proc. Zool. 

 Soc. 1864, p. 101 ; Fitzinger, Sitzher k. AJc. Wiss. Wien, vol. lix, 

 pt. 1, p. 176, 1869 ; Drummond, Large Game S. Africa, p. 426, 

 1875 ; Brehm, Thierleben, Sdugethiere, vol. iii, p. 224, 1880 ; 

 Flower and Garson, Cat. Osteol. Mus. B. Coll. Surg. pt. ii, 

 p. 268, 1884 ; Jentink, Cat. Osteol. Leydeii Mus. {Mus. Pays-Bas, 

 vol. ix) p. 131, 1887, Cat. Mamm. Leyden Mus. {ibid. vol. xi) 

 p. 159, 1892, Notes Leyden Mus. vol. ix, p. 172, 1887 ; Nicholls 

 and Eglington, Sportsman in S. Africa, p. 44, 1892 ; True, Proc. 

 U.S. Nat. Mus. vol. xv, p. 471, 1892 ; Pococh, Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 1904, vol. i, p. 4, 1910, p. 916 ; 0. Neumann, Sitzber. Ges. 7iat. 

 Freunde, 1905, p. 93 ; Broun, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1905, vol. ii, p. 296 ; 

 Matschie, Sitzber. Ges. nat. Freunde, 1910, p. 409, Mitt. Zool. 

 Mus. Berlin, vol. v, pt. 3, p. 556, 1911 ; Cabrera, Cat. Met. Mam. 

 Mus. Madrid, p. 126, 1912. 



Antilope ((Egocerus) elhpsiprymnus, Lesson, Nouv. Tabl. Begne 

 Anim., Mamm. p. 180, 1842. 



Kolus ellipsiprymnus, Gray, List Mamm. Brit. Mus. p. 159, 1843. 



