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still, perhaps exceptionally only, be found in a very rudi- 

 mentary state in young ones. 



According to the above, the synonynay of the species under 

 consideration is as follows : — 



Bh. fumif/afus, Riippell (1842), cotypes, ia the Senckenberg Museum, 



from Shoti. 

 = Iih. macrocephahis, v. Ileuglin (1877), cotypes, in the Stuttgart 



Maseuni, from Adowa, Abyssinia. 

 = 7M. Anfinorii, Dobson (1885), type, in the Genoa Civic Museum, 



from " Uaimbi, Shoa " *. 



Measurements o/ Rh. fiimigatus, macrocephalus, and Antinorii. 



* Probably Dembea, Abyssinia. 



tt Rendered from " inches " into millimetres. Dobson's method of 

 measuring the metacarpals was probably slightly different from my own ; 

 in his measurement of the 2nd phalanx of the 3rd finger is, perhaps, in- 

 cluded the (so-called) 3rd phalanx. For comparison, I subjoin measure- 

 ments of a specimen of " Rh. Antinorii" in the British Museum. 



X Allowing for a shrinkage of 1 or, at most, 2 mm. in RlippeU's 

 (mounted) types. The exact position of the hinder border of the anus 

 cannot be ascertained in these specimens. 



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