126 l'TEKOI'IDTK. 



See Epomopliorus comptus, Allen, Proc. Acad. N. S. Pliilad. 1861, 

 p. 158. Fur soft reddish fawn, becoming darker on the loins 

 and base of arms ; under surface with a largo ovoid patch of 

 dirty white, bounded laterally by longitudinal fawn-coloured 

 stripes ; faco covered with short brown hairs ; small yellow 

 tuft at tho base of tho oars ; chin whitish ; epaulettes faintly 

 marked ; lips moderate. Ilab. West Africa : Gaboon, Du 

 Ghaillu. Intermediate in size between E. gambianus and 

 schoensis. Arm-bone 3 inches; Skull smaller than that of 

 E. gambianus, with only two incisors in tho upper jaw, which 

 are in tho centre of tho intercanine space, and slightly sepa- 

 rated from each other. 



2. Epoinophorus gambianus. B. M. 



Brown, middle of the underside whitish. 



Fteropus gambianus, Oijilby, P. Z. S. 1835, p. 100. Epomopliorus 

 gambianus, Gray, Mag. Zool. <§• Hot. ii. p. 504; Tomes, P. Z. <S'. 

 1800, p. 52 ; 180i, t. 1. f. 2 (skull). Pachysoma gambianus, Temm. 

 Esq. p. 09, 1853. Pteropus YVaklbergii, Sundevall, K. Vet. Akad. 

 Stock. 1840, p. 118. 



Ilab. Gambia, Kendall ; Port Natal and Caffraria, Sundevall ; 

 ? Angola, Montdro (in spirit) ; Abyssinia, Verreaux. 



Seo also 



a. Pteropus Wahlenbergii, Sundevall, V. Akad. Stock, 184G, 



p. 118 ; Epomopliorus crypturus, Peters, Mossamb. Mamm. 

 p. 26, t. 5 & 13. f. 1 (skull) ; Tomes, P. Z. S. 1861, p. 12. 

 Hah. Mossambique, Peters ; Sundevall ; Tomes. 



b. Pteropus labiatus, Temm. Mon. ii. p. 83, t. 9 ; Pachysoma la- 



biatum, Temm. Esq. p. 68, 1853 ; Epomopliorus labiatus, 

 Tomes, P. Z. S. 1860, p. 55 ; 1861, p. 13. Hub. Abyssinia, 

 Mus. Leyden. Allied to P. maeroceplialus. 



14. EP0M0PS. 



Like Epomopliorus, but head ovate. Skull ovate, broad. Face 

 moderate, not nearly so long as the brain-case. Zygomatic arches 

 convex. Cutting-teeth separate, far apart in the intercanine space. 

 Grinders £, close together. 



Epomopliorus, sp., Tomes. 



Epomops Franqueti. 



Brown, the middle of the belly white ; the epaulettes very large, 

 white (in spirit) ; ear-spot white. 



Epomopliorus Franqueti, Tomes, P. Z. S. 1800, p. 54, t. 75; 1801, 

 t. 1. f. 3, skull. 



Ilab. West Africa : Gaboon, Franquet. 



