On a new Fruit- Bat from Sierra Leone. 375 



cannot be distinguished externally except by the much shorter 

 hind feet of M. woodwardi. 



Skull much smaller than that of M. tunneyi in all dimen- 

 sions, though of the same general shape. Supraorbital ridges 

 less developed. Anteorbital plate less projected forwards. 

 Palatal foramina less open. Bullae smaller. Molars similar 

 in structure, but both narrower and shorter. 

 Dimensions of the type : — 



Head and body not measured by collector, and evidently 

 stretched ; tail 114 mm.; hind foot 25'5; ear 17. 



Skull : back of interparietal to tip of nasals 31*5 ; zygo- 

 matic breadth 18; nasals ll'5x3"3; interorbital breadth 5 ; 

 greatest divergence of parietal ridges 12 ; palatilar length 

 15'7 ; diastema 9 ; palatal foramina Q'8 ; greatest diameter 

 of bullse 8*3 ; length of upper molar series 6 ; breadth of m l 

 22. 



Ha b. Lagrange Bay, N.W. Australia. 

 Type. Old female. B.M. no. 5. 1. 9. 1. Collected January 

 1899 by J. T. Tunney, and presented by the Perth Museum 

 through Mr. B. H. Woodward, after whom the species is 

 named. Two specimens examined. 



Closely related as it is to M. tunneyi in all essential 

 characters, M. woodwardi is readily distinguishable by its 

 much shorter feet and smaller skull and teeth. 



XLIV. — A new Fruit- Bat from Sierra Leone. 

 By Oldfield Thomas. 



The British Museum owes to Canon F. C. Smith the skin of 

 a Rouset from Sierra Leone clearly differing from any species 

 hitherto described. It may be called 



Rousettus smitliii, sp. n. 



Most nearly allied to R. angolensis, with which it forms a 

 distinct section of the genus, but differing in the following 

 characters : — Size much smaller, the skull also narrower and 

 with less widely expanded zygomata. Fur shorter and more 

 resembling that of ordinary Rousets (that of R. angolensis 

 being unusually long and silky), and not extending so far 

 down the hind limbs, the proximal half only of the tibiae 

 being clothed. Ears narrower. Colour dull brown without 

 rufous suffusion ; neck more greyish. 



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