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cyx pale rufous ; middle of the belly covered with short hair, smooth, 
and dirty white. 
The female, M. Temminck says, does not differ very greatly from 
the male, excepting in wanting the shoulder tufts, and in not having 
the great development of lips. From this it would seem that the 
latter peculiarity is sexual, which appears highly improbable if we 
admit that the greatly developed lips have a determinate function to 
perform, which could scarcely differ much in the two sexes. More- 
over it is further rendered improbable by the facts that in the other 
species of the genus the peculiarity exists equally in both male and 
female. 
Total length (English) .......... 4 4or5 
DOre-arih ppb ae ao Fee es, ho 2 6 
Expanse of wings .............. 16 0 
Hab. Abyssinia. 
My note of the species made in the Leyden Museum is as fol- 
lows :—‘‘ Much smaller than Z. macrocephalus, and with the face 
relatively much shorter ; shoulder tufts as in that species ; size about 
that of Pachysoma amplexicaudatum.” 
5. EpomMorHorws scHoEnsis, Riupp., sp. 
Pteropus schoénsis, Riipp. Mus. Senck. ii. p. 131, 1842; Schinz, 
Synop. Mamm. i. p. 129, 1844. 
Dr. Rippell observes of this species, that he had some doubts 
whether it might not be the young of the Pteropus whitei of Ben- 
nett, the incisor teeth of one of the specimens bearing indications of 
immaturity, but that some disparities in the proportions induced 
him to regard it as distinct. 
At the dispersion of the Museum of the Zoological Society, two 
specimens of a’small species of Frugivorous Bat, labelled “Gambia,” 
fell into my hands, which I had no difficulty in identifying with the 
species described by Dr. Riippell under the above name. Afterwards 
I met with another specimen in the Paris Museum which had been 
received from Gaboon with the specimen of L. franqueti already 
described. These examples have furnished the materials for the 
following description. 
It is a miniature of LZ. gambianus, being the smallest of the Pée- 
ropodide, save the Kiodote, and has a shorter and more rounded 
head and shorter muzzle. These parts are somewhat similar to the 
same parts in Pachysoma brevicaudatum, and indeed the two species 
hold precisely the same position in their respective genera. LZ. 
schoénsis bears pretty closely the same relationship to EZ. franqueti 
as P. brevicaudatum does to P. stramineum and P. egyptiacum. 
As in those already described, this species has the two ear-tufts ; 
the ears too are themselves so similarly proportioned as to need no 
particular description. The fur, like that of #. gambianus, extends 
on to the membranes, and in a perfectly similar manner, and in 
texture and colour agrees so well with that of that species as to re- 
