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13. EPOMOPHORUS. 



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

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

 gether in the centre of the intcrcanine space. Head largo. 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 28. Lack, sliouldcrs, 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 ±, far 

 apart, with a small false grinder in front below. 



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

 18G0, p. 42. Paehysoma, sp., Temm. Esq. p. G4, 1853. 



The teeth arc often very imperfect, the grinders sometimes entirely 

 wanting; the chock-pouches vory largo. Eating figs. — Dr. Kirk. 



Face very long, 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 cars white. 

 Female. Greyer beneath. 



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

 samb. i. p. 30. 1'. epomophorus, Bennett, P. Z. S. 1835, p. 140. 

 P. megacephalus, Swainson, Lardner's Ency. p. 02. Epomophorus 

 whitci, Bennett, Trans. Zool. Soc. ii. p. 38, t. (i. E. macrocephalus, 

 Tomes, P. Z. S. 1800, p. 43 ; 1801, p. 12, t. 1. f. 1, la, & 7. Paehy- 

 soma whitci, Temm. Esq. pp. G5 & 71, 1853. 1'. macrocephalum, 

 Temm. Esq. pp. 05 & 71, 1853. 



ITab. West Africa: Gambia, Kendall. 



Males, from Gambia and Zambesi, havo a length, from eye to tip of 

 nose (in spirit), of 1\ inch ; and in the 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 witli white hairs. In some fe- 

 males, from Angola and the Gain bias, the length from eye to tip of 



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



Var. angolensis. Pale brown; head with a dark streak from the 

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

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

 cpauletto palo brown ; forearm 3,[ inches. Femalo. B. M. 



/lab. Angola, Montiero (in spirit). 



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

 small. B. M. 



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



