Mr. K. Andersen on African Ptliinoloplii. 453 



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

 mentary state in young ones. 



According to the above, the synonymy of the species under 

 consideration is as follows : — 



Eh. fumigatus, Riippell (1842), cotypes, in the Senckenberg Museum, 



from Shoa. 

 = lih. macrocephahts, v. Heuglin (1877), cotypes, in the Stuttgart 



Museum, from Adowa, Abyssinia. 

 = Rh. Aiitinorii, Dobsou (1885), type, in the Genoa Civic Museum, 



from " Uaimbi, Shoa " *. 



Measurements of Rh. fumigatus, macrocephalus, and Antinorii 



* Probably Dembea, Abyssinia. 



t. Rendered from *' inches " into millimetres. Dobsou's method of 

 measuring the metacarpals was probably slightly different from my own ; 

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

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

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



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

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

 cannot be ascertained in these specimens. 



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