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Skull: length to tip of nasals 42; basal length 37-5; zygomatic breadth 25; 

 breadth of brain-case 17'4; palate length from anterior palatine foramina 19 ; breadth 

 of palatine foramina 3-4; length of upper tooth-row from front of canine 14-5; the 

 same below, 16-2 ; first upper molar 2-3x1 '2. 



Eab. Mubuku Valley, E. Ruwenzori. 13,000 ft. 



Type. Adult male (in spirits). B.M. no. 6.7.1.2. Collected by Mr. R. B. Woosnam. 

 Three specimens obtained. 



This species is allied to B. leachi, but is at once distinguishable from that and every 

 other species by the thick woolly covering of its hind limbs and its remarkably narrow 

 molars. 



The occurrence of a Fruit-Bat at such an altitude as 13,000 ft. is very remarkable. 



It is interesting to note that this and the following species differ from all other 

 members of the genus in having the wing extending to the second toe, while the 

 present form is further differentiated by the obsolescence of the antetragal lobe. 



[This Bat frequented the cliffs and caves on Ruwenzori at 12,000-13,000 ft., but did 

 not appear to spend the night at this altitude, as numbers always flew down the valley 

 in the evening, apparently to feed. There was certainly nothing above 10,000 ft. for 

 such a Bat to feed upon, and nothing above 7000 ft. but Podocarpus berries ; but it is 

 remarkable that only one example of this species was caught in the nets set at 

 6000 ft., while B. angolensis was caught by dozens. Possibly it is very uncommon ; 

 the greatest number seen in an evening at 12,500 ft. was six. The native name for 

 this and all other large Bats in the district is "Bihukusi." — R. B. W.] 



11. ROUSETTUS ANGOLENSIS Bocage. 



d. 110, 111, 117; 112, 113, 118, 119, 120. ?. 96, 277, 278; 97, 100, 101, 

 103, 219. Mubuku Valley, E. Ruwenzori. 5000 ft. 



4 in spirits. Mubuku Valley, E. Ruwenzori. 5000 ft. 



[Very plentiful in the lower valleys of Ruwenzori, but not seen above 6500 ft. 

 Native name "Bihukusi." — R. B. W.] 



12. Epomops franqueti Tomes. 



c? . 167. 30 miles N.W. of Fort Beni, Semliki Valley. 



[xifew seen in the Congo Forest, but not at all common. — R. B. W.] 



13. Epomophorus anurus Heugl. 



Epomophorus sp. inc. Woosnam, antea, pt. i. p. 17 (1909). 

 $ . 109, and ? in spirits. Mubuku Valley, E. Ruwenzori. 5000 ft. 

 d. 150, 151. ?.152. Mokia, S.E. Ruwenzori. 3400ft. 



