Mr. K. Andersen on new Petalia. r)4'J 



tliird metacarpal 20, ear from base of inner margin 23-23"5, 

 skull (total length) 18"5, maxillary tooth-row (crowns) 

 6-1-6-2. 



Type, ad. (skin), Dialocote, Frencli Gambia, 7 March, 1910, 

 presented by G. Fenwick Owen, Esq., B.M. 11. C. 10. 10. 



JSote. — Gambia is inhabited by two otiier species of 

 Petalia, P. hispida and P. macrotis. 



Tlie following nineteen forms of Petalia are known to the 

 writer: — 



I. P. javanica group : — p4 large, equal in lieiglit to cusp 1 of nii ; tragus 



Ungulate or seniiluuate. 

 A. Indo-Malayan species. 



1. P.7V?(;««7c«, E. Geoff. — Java; Timor. 



2. P. tragata, K. A. — Borneo ; iMalay Peninsula. 



li. Ethiopian species. 



3. P. ff;Y/^, Thos.* — Semliki 11. ; Ituri Forest; Benito B., French 



Congo; Fernando Po ; Canieroons (Efulen ; B. Ja) ; Old 

 Calabar ; Oban, S. Nigeria. 



4. P. nana, K. A. — Benito B., Frencli Conero. 



5. P. major, K. A. — Cameroons (B. Jaj. 



II. P. hispida group : — p4 small ; upper incisors trifid ; tragus falciform 



or semilunate. Ethiopian. 



6. P. Jiispida, Schreber. — From Egypt and Soudan, through British 



East Africa and Uganda, south to Ft. Johnston (Nyasa) and 

 Upper Shire B., west to Angola and the Guinea coast, as far 

 as Gambia. 



7. P. aui-ita, K. A. — British East Africa and Somaliland. 



8. P. yrandis, Pet. — From Zanzibar, west to French Congo and Old 



Calabar. 



III. P. (sthiopica group : — p4 small ; upper incisors bifid ; tragus semi- 



lunate (or nearly so). Ethiopian. 



9. P. cethiopica cethiopica, Dobson. — Kordofixu and Shendy (Upper 



Nile). 



10. P. cfthiopica luteola, Thos.f — Zanzibar; British East Africa; 



Uganda; west to Loauda (Pungo Andongo and Cassualalla ). 



11. P. macrotis X, Dobson. — The Guinea coast representative of 



P. cethiopica : from Nigeria to Gambia. 



IV. P. thebaica group : — p^ small ; upper incisors bifid ; tragus pyriform 



(free portion narrowest at base, its outer and inner margins evenly 

 convex). Ethiopian. 



12. P. thebaica adana, K. A. — Aden. 



13. P. thebaica thebaica, E. Geoft". — Egypt (incl. Sinai). 



* Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) xii. p. 633 (Dec. 1903). 



t Ann. & Mag. Nat. Flist. (7) viii. p. 30 (July 1901). 



X Nytteris geofroyi, Desmarest (Mamra.' p. 127; 1820), may be an 

 earlier name of this species, but, unless the type should have been pre- 

 served, the identification appears rather doubtful. 



