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which, however, no doubt will prove to be subject to a 

 certain amount of individual variation). Hinder border of 

 interfemoral, between tips of calcars, almost square. 



Colour (of spirit-specimen). — Light brown above, greyish 

 beneath. Sides of face yellowish white, with a strongly 

 marked dark brown patcli under each eye. Membranes dark 

 brown ; free margin of plagiopatagiura very narrowly 

 bordered with whitish. Forearm, metacarpals, and finger- 

 joints yellowish. 



Skull. — Essential characters as in Rh. Blasii, but parietal 

 region of skull still more globular; frontal region con- 

 siderably less constricted. Extreme width of brain-case 

 slightly greater tlian zygomatic width. Median anterior 

 point of palatal bridge opjDosite front of m^ ; median posterior 

 point drawn out into a tootli-like projection. Upper margin 

 of mandible from condyle to base of coronoid process almost 

 straight. Coronoid process very small, projecting only a 

 trifle beyond the highest cusp of mi. 



Dentition. — Small anterior upper premolar (p^) placed in 

 the tooth-row. Upper canine and posterior premolar (/?^) 

 widely separated. Cusp of p* three fourths the height of 

 the canine. Middle lower premolar (p-i) extremely small, 

 hut placed entirely in the tootk-row, separating />2 '<^^^ /^^ f rom 

 each other; p^ one third the height of the canine. Cusp of 

 lower p^ not quite as high as the antero-exterior cusp of mi. 



Type. — ? ad. Zomba, Nyasa, collected by Mr. A. 

 Whvte, Jan. 189-'i, presented by Sir Harry Johnston. 

 B.M. no. 93. 7. i). 33. 



Distribution. — Only one specimen, the type, examined. 



Remarks. -Lt\\\& fine species stands quite alone among the 

 African Rhinolupki, being the only hitherto known species 

 with a wedge-tormed sellaj Its nearest ally is the South 

 European Rh. Blasii. In dentition Rh. empusa occupies a 

 slightly more primitive position than Rh. Blasii: in the 

 former the lower ^>3 is still entirely in the tooth-row, in the 

 latter it is just on the point of being driven out on the 

 exterior side of the tooth-row. 



Measurements of the type. 



Nose-leaves : niui. 



Front of horseshoe to posterior point of hxncet .... 13'8 



Extreme width of horseshoe 9 



Vertical height of sella 3*i 



Width of sella at base 2-3 



Ears : 



Base of lower margin to tip 15*2 



Notch on outer margin to tip ITS 



Extreme width 13"2 



