206 Mr. O. Thomas on new Bats from 



Leptomerocoris antennatus, Walk. loc. cit. p. 145, = SabeUicus sordidus, 



Walk. 

 Helopeltis braconiformis, Walk. loc. cit. p. 165, = Helopeltis (Dulichius) 



clavifer, Walk. 



To be treated as non-existent. 



Types broken, undeterminable. 



Capsus obscurellus, Walk. Cat. Het. vi. p. 93 (1873). 

 intaminatus, Walk. loc. cit. p. 127. 



Species the types of which are not now to be found in the British Museum. 



Capsus frontifer, Walk. Oat. Het. vi. p. 94 (1873). 



pallescens, Walk. loc. cit. 



niyritulus, Walk. loc. cit. p. 112. 



semiclusus, Walk. loc. cit. p. 118. 



subirroratus, Walk. loc. cit. p. 119. 



marginicollis, Walk. loc. cit. p. 128. 



Leptomerocoris simplex, Walk, loc. cit. p, 145. 

 Monalocoris bipunctipennis, Walk. loc. cit. p. 159. 

 Monalonion ichneumonoides, Walk. loc. cit. p. 162. 



XXII. — New Bats from British Bast Africa collected by Mrs. 

 Hinde, and from the Cameroons by Mr. G. L. Butes. By 

 Oldfield Thomas. 



The British Museum owes to the kindness of Mrs. Hinde, 

 wife of Dr. S. L. Hinde, of Fort Hall, British East Africa, 

 a further collection of bats, and these include three well- 

 marked new forms, which I have described below, in con- 

 junction with two others obtained by Mr. G. L. Bates in 

 West Africa. 



The new Myotis from Fort Hall, which I have named in 

 honour of its captor, is an especially noticeable discovery. 



Pipistrellus crassulus, sp. n. 



A medium-sized species with disproportionally short fore- 

 arms. 



General build thick and heavy. Muzzle broad, swollen. 

 Ears short, laid forward they do not nearly reach to the tip 

 of the muzzle; inner margin straight below, convex above; 

 tip evenly and broadly rounded ; outer margin straight 

 above, slightly convex below ; basal lobe small, rounded. 

 Tragus of medium length, its greatest breadth opposite its 



