56 DR. J. E. GRAY ON WEST-AFRICAN MAMMALS. [Feb. 9, 
loped as in the adult; indeed the face differs only from the usual 
appearance of a Pteropine Bat in having the end of the nose rather 
broader, more bald, and in there being a deep groove with a slight fold 
of skin on the hinder side of it on each side of the muffle; and the 
front of the lower lip is reflected and bent down, with a slight notch 
in its middle. The nostrils are tubular and rather far apart. The 
upper surface of the nose is rather swollen, convex, with a central 
longitudinal and some transverse wrinkles ; the surface of this large 
swollen part is only covered with short hairs, and is scattered with 
slender, rather short, erect, black bristles. 
Epomophorus whitei, Bennett. 
A white tuft of short soft hairs at the base of the front side of the 
ear; a tuft of white short hairs covering a deep pouch on the side 
of the shoulder. 
Hab. Shupanga, on the Zambesi. 
Dr. Kirk has presented to the Museum two specimens of this 
species ; they are both males. 
‘They eat figs, coming out just for an hour or so in the evening 
and then retiring into dark places.” 
The lips are very thick and rather dependent on the side, forming 
a very large pouch on the side of the mouth. The nostrils are mo- 
derately convolute on the outer side of the muffle, which is divided 
by a deep central notch, which extends down to the edge of the lip. 
In the ‘ Proceedings of the Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh ’ 
for March 28, 1860, Mr. Andrew Murray, under the title of ‘ Con- 
tributions to the Fauna of Old Calabar,” has indicated two new ge- 
nera of Mammalia. He has most kindly transmitted to the British 
Museum the specimens on which these observations were founded. 
I have been enabled, by comparison with other specimens, to deter- 
mine what I consider them to be. The following are Mr. Murray’s 
notes :— 
“« Anahyster (new genus of Otter) calabaricus, Murray,” 1. ec. 
p. dass 
“Its dentition differs from that of our Common Otter (Lutra vul- 
garis) in having one fewer premolar in the upper jaw. Mr. Murray 
had submitted it to Professor Owen, who believes it to be a non- 
