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EXPLANATION OF PLATE XXVIII. 
Phyllium crurifolium. 
The figures represent the adult male and female of the natural size, 
and were photographed from living examples. 
1. Female imago. 
2. Male imago. 
2. The Mammals of Matabeleland. By E. C. Causs, F.Z.S., 
Acting Curator of the Rhodesia Museum. 
[Received December 29, 1908. ] 
The Rhodesia Museum has acquired during the past two years 
sufficient material to give a good idea of the mammalian fauna of 
the Western Province of Southern Rhodesia, and it is upon this 
collection that the present paper is based. For the sake of com- 
pleteness, however, I have included the mounted examples of big 
game that were in the Museum prior to this period, and also 
a few species known to occur in the country, though up to the 
present unrepresented in the Museum. 
The only previous paper dealing with the mammals of this 
area is that of De Winton ™*, being a list of a collection made by 
Selous at Hssexvale. The species therein recorded are also 
incorporated in this list. 
Two interesting Bats, Rhinolophus empusa and Cleotis percivali, 
are now recorded for the first time from South Africa south of 
the Zambezi, hitherto being known only from the type localities, 
Nyasaland and British Hast Africa respectively. 
The probability of the different geological formations supporting 
distinct vertebrate faunas was pointed out to me some time ago 
by my former colleague, Mr. F', P. Mennell, and indeed this seems 
to be borne out in a remarkable way by at least one group among 
* P. Z.S, 1896, p. 798. 
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