



Mr. W. L. Distant on the Genus Platypleura. ' 173 



The species appears to be distributed in western tropical 

 Africa from Sierra Leone to Calabar. 



I now add the description of an undescribed bat closely 

 allied species. 



Platypleura Rutherfordi, n. sp. (PL II. fig. D.) 

 Head ochraceous ; front with a central subtriangular black 



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spot ; vertex with a — I black mark before the eyes ; area of 



the ocelli and a central basal spot also black. Pronotum 

 greenish ochraceous, with the following black markings : — a 

 central discal black line, dilated on each side anteriorly, not 

 reaching much beyond centre posteriorly, from which two 

 oblique straight lines extend to behind the eyes ; and from 

 near the centre of these a longitudinal black streak is emitted ; 

 | a curved and somewhat dentate line behind the eyes ; a central 



I linear spot ; and the lateral dilated margins are also black. 



Mesonotum with two small obconical black spots on anterior 

 margin, on each side of which is a much larger subobconical 

 spot of the same colour, and a central longitudinal fascia and 

 two small basal spots also black ; basal cruciform elevation 

 pale ochraceous. Abdomen greenish ochraceous, with the 

 basal segmental margins black. Body beneath greenish 

 ochraceous, somewhat spotted with black ; dilated pronotal 

 margins and anterior and intermediate tarsi black. Tegmina 

 pale hyaline ; costal membrane and basal fourth dull ochra- 

 ceous and opaque ; the last with the extreme base, an oblique 

 broad terminal fascia, and claval area pale fuscous ; a spot at 

 the extremity of the radial area anastomoses with some small 

 adjacent spots near extremities of second and third ulnar areas, 

 and a double submarginal series of small spots placed on the 

 apices of the veins fuscous. Wings pale hyaline, with the 

 basal third obliquely fuscous and a small spot at extremity of 

 radial area fuscous. 



The head, including outer margin of eyes, is about equal 

 in width to the anterior margin of the mesonotum ; the lateral 

 margins of the pronotum are amply and subacutely produced ; 

 the rostrum (the apex of which is fuscous) extends to the first 

 abdominal segment; the opercula are short, broad, and 

 rounded. 



Long. <^, 24 millim., exp. tegm. 70 millim. 



Hob. West Africa, Calabar {J). G. Rutherford) ; Isubu. 



