Mr. K. Andersen on new Petalia. 549 



third 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, French Gambia, 7 March, 1910, 

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



jSote. — Gambia is inhabited by two other species of 

 Petalia, P. hispida and P. macrotis. 



The following nineteen forms of Petalia are known to the 

 writer : — 



I. P.javauica group : — pi large, equal in lieight to cusp 1 of nu ; tragus 



Ungulate or semilunate. 



A. Indo-Malayan species. 



1. l\ja)Kmica,¥j. Geoff. — Java; Timor. 



2. P. tragata, K. A. — Borneo; Malay Peninsiila. 



B. Ethiopian species. 



3. P. arge,'i^\\os.* — Semliki R. ; Ituri Fore.««t ; Benito B., French 



Congo; Fernando Po ; Cameroons (P^fulen ; B. Ja) ; Old 

 Calabar ; Oban, S. Nigeria. 



4. P. nana, K. A. — Benito R,, French Coneo. 



5. P. major, K. A. — Cameroons (R. JaJ. 



II. P. hispida f^ou^ : — p4 small; upper incisors trifid ; tragus falcifonu 



or semilunate. Ethiopian. 



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



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

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

 as Gambia. 



7. P. aiirita, K. A. — ^British East Africa and Somaliland. 



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



Calabar. 



III. P. (Bthiopica group : — p^ small ; upper incisors bifid ; tragus semi- 



lunate (or nearly so). Ethiopian. 



9. P. (Bthiopica cethiopica, Dobson. — Kordofan and Shendy ("Upper 



Nile). 



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



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



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



P. cethiopica : from Nigeria to Gambia. 



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



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

 convex). Ethiopian. 



12. P. thehaica adana, K. A. — Aden. 



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



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

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

 X Nycteris geofroyi, Desmarest (Mamm." p. 127; 1820), may be au 

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

 served, the identification appears rather doubtful. 



