Bt Smith on a Fruit-Eating Bat of Old Calabar. 363 



specimens to the late Dr W. C. Thomson, who was surgeon 

 to the mission at Old Calabar, and latterly practised at 

 Partick, near Glasgow. A stuffed specimen of a male of the 

 same bat was also presented to the Museum of Science and 

 Art here, a good many years ago, by Dr Archibald Hewan, 

 a former mission surgeon at Old Calabar, now settled in 

 London. 



The specimens in my possession have been for a consider- 



EpomopJwrus comptus^ Male (a.) (natural size). 



able time preserved in spirits, and are now unfortunately, I 

 regret to say, some of them in rather a bad state of preserva- 

 tion. They consist of an adult male («), another adult male {h) 

 slightly smaller in size ; a female, and a young male which 

 she was nursing when captured. 



Comparing these specimens with the detailed account of 

 the bat given in the recently published important " Catalogue 



