274 Mr. K. Andersen on llipposideins cafter 



principal points in Noaclc's description are these two : — " Au 

 der Seitc hat das Nascnl)hitt drci Falten" ; and "die beiden 

 Seiten der [Schwanz-] Flnghaut siitd statt dcs Schwartzes 

 dwell ein sclnnahs sehniyes .... Band yetrennt, in ivelcliem 

 jede Spur von Schnanzivirbeln fehlt." Also it must be meu- 

 tioned that Noack compares this bat with " PJiyllurhina 

 bicolur, \ar.fulva " and Rhinonycteris anrantla, but not ^ith 

 H. coffer; that the fiornres of th.e skull (fio^s. 14, 15), though 

 stated to be " natiirliehe Grosse/' are considerably larger 

 than the measurements given l)y tiie author (pp. r)87-o.S8) ; 

 and that the forearm is said to measure o'.l mm. — Prof. 

 Matscliie, uho, with customary kindness, consented to 

 re-examine the type, informs me that it has two, not three, 

 supplementary leaflets external to the horseshoe (in giving 

 the number of " Falten^^ Noack probably counted the maigin 

 of the horseshoe together with the lateral leaflets) ; that the 

 proximal tail-vertebrte liave undoul)tedly been extracted by 

 the taxidermist * ; that a few distal vertebrae are still left in 

 the tail-membrane; that all the skull-measurements (with 

 one exception) as given by Noack are too large; that the 

 forearm measures 51 mm.; and that the type is un- 

 questionably a H. coffer. This evidence coincides with the 

 result at which 1 myself had independently arrived 

 by a perusal of Noaek's exceedingly long and detailed 

 description of Ph. rubra. — Some measurements of the skull 

 placed at my disposal by Prof. Matschie enable me to deter- 

 mine still more precisely the aliiniiies of Ph. rubra. The 

 maxillary width, across the antero-external corners of m^, is 

 0*7 mm. ; the width across the cingula of the upper canines 

 4'5 ; the zygomatic width 10*2 ; the length of the maxillar 

 tootli-scrics 6'4, — facts which all prove, conclusively, that the 

 type of Ph. rubra is one of the (apparently rare) mdividuals 

 which are intermediate between coffer typicus and coffer 

 centralis. This result also agrees with the fact that Ph. rubra 

 was obtained in that region of East Africa w^here the arvas 

 of the typical form and c. cenira/is ovcrhip each other. There 

 is a similar individual in the British Museum, from the same 

 region. 



Phyllorhina angolensis, Seabra ; Dec. 1898. — In ]\Iarch 

 1897 Barboza du Bocage f pointed out some differences 

 between the Angola representative of H. coffer and specimens 



* On this particular point see also Matschie, in SB. Ges. naturf. Fr. 

 Berlin, 1894, p. 206, footnote. 



t J. V. Barboza flu Bocage, " Maraiferos .... d'Africa de que existem 

 exemplarrtS typicos no Museu de Lisboa," Jorn. Sci. Math. &c. Lisboa, 

 IL'; iv. no. 10, p. 188; March 1807. 



