A NEW 



HORSESHOE BAT FROM WEST AFRICA 



Qlover M. ALLEN. 



In continuation of his préviens work in the Cameroons, the 

 Rev. George Schwab has lately forwarded to the Muséum of 

 Comparative Zoôlogy at Cambridge a small séries of bats in 

 alcohol from Sakbayeme, an inland station on tiie North-Eastern 

 part of the Congo basin. 



The collection includes three species of Horseshoe Bats : 

 Hipposideros beatus And., H. fxiliginosus (Temm.), and a third 

 which appears to be hitherto undescribed. The first of thèse, as 

 well as numbers of H . cajfer guinecnsis , Mr. Schwab had 

 already obtained at Metet and Ebolowa to the North-West. The 

 small séries of H . fiiliginosus is of interest in connection with 

 D' Andersen's statement in 1906 that he then knew of but two 

 authentic examples : the type in the Leiden Muséum, and a second 

 spécimen in the British Muséum. 



The new species does not seem closely related to any of 

 the African members of the genus yet known. It may be 

 named : 



