HO Mcssr?. K. Ainlcrsen and l\. C. Wiouiiliton on 



1 h. Laviafrons affiais, sub-?p. n. 



T)i(}(jnosis. — Av(M-aa;e size smaller. 



7>(7(///.s\ — Comparative measurements are given above 

 UUtltT L. frons /rons (p. '\'^9). 



Type. — S a^l' ^k>"- Kaka, White Nile. Collected by 

 E. M. Ilawkcr, Esq. B.^[. no. 1. 8. 8. 3. 



Specimens e.viiniined. — 8 (7 .'^kins) and G skulls, viz. White 

 Kile (5), Lake No (1), Lado (1), Wadelai (1). 



The British ]Museum possesses a somewhat dama2;ed skull 

 without skin from Cape Coast Castle (Gold Coast) wiiicli 

 seems to belong to this race, and j\lillcr^s specimen of 

 " L. frotis" referred to above under L. f. frons (p. 139) 

 appears also to belong to the present race ; so it is possible 

 that the range oi affinis extends westward to the coast. 



V. Cardioderma, Peters. 



1873. Cardioderma^ Peters, MB. Akad. Berlin, p. 488 (23rd June, 

 1873). 



Diagnosis. — See " Key/^ ]). 130. 



Skull. — Frontal shield parallel-sided; the centre longitu- 

 dinally depressed, so as to form a " trough " ; all the angles 

 sharply defined, but not produced into processes as in Lavia. 

 Prenasal notch about as long as in Megaderma (^ total length 

 of skull), flatly rounded posteriorly. 



Teeth. — p^ absent. Cusp 3 of m^ about as in Megaderma. 

 Antero-internal basal cusp of upper canine absent. 



Kose-leaf. — As in Megaderma, but a distinct trace of 

 antero-lateral lobes of the median leaf, as in Lavia ; in 

 Megaderma, Eucheira, and Macroderma these lobes are merely 

 indicated by faint depressions in the margin of the median 

 leaf. 



Tragus. — Both lobes very short ; the inner flatly rounded 

 at tO]) and excavate at the base in front, so that it seems 

 directed inward rather than upward. 



Ilange. — East Africa : Zanzibar, ]\rombasa, Somali. 



Species. — One, C. cor. 



^nomenclature. — Type species of the genus, Megaderma cor. 

 In 1872 Peters described Megaderma cor, and in the following 

 year proposed for this species the subgeneric name Cardio- 

 derma ■without any further characterization. 



