1894.] MAMMALS OF NYASA1AND. 137 



novelties. For although there are not a very large number of 

 species altogether represented in the present collection, yet several 

 are new to the locality, one is a rediscovered species described 

 thirty years ago, and two are new to science. 



The Mammal-fauna is therefore evidently far from worked out, 

 and Messrs. Johnston and Whyte should be encouraged to continue 

 their explorations until, after the receipt of five or six more similar 

 collections, we may perhaps be in a position to say that our know- 

 ledge of the Mammals of the district approaches completion. 



1. Cebcopithecus abbigulabis, Sykes. 



a. Ad. sk. <$ . Fort Lister, Milanji, 3500 ft. 16/7/93. 



b. Ad. sk. 2 ■ Milanji Plateau, 6000 ft. 26/4/93. 



For the determination of these two Monkeys I am indebted to 

 Mr. Sclater, who has been recently making a study of this group, 

 and who has kindly furnished me with the following note respect- 

 ing them : — 



" The male is much larger, and shows no rufous on the rump 

 and arms. The smaller female has these parts strongly tinged 

 with rufous. This is probably a sexual distinction, as it was no 

 doubt on a similar specimen that C. eryihrarchus, Peters (which 

 Dr. Matschie has lately pronounced to be=C. albigularis, cf. Sitz.- 

 Ber. nat. Freunde Berk 1893, p. 215), was based. The female 

 specimen agrees well with the figure of C. erytJirarchus in the 

 ' Beise nach Mossambique,' and with a female specimen formerly 

 living in the Zoological Society's Menagerie." 



2. Otogale kieki, Gray. 



a. Ad. sk. Blantyre. 2/93. 



b-cl. 3 do. Shire Highlands. 12/92. 



3. Galago moholi, A. Sm. 

 a. Ad. al. $ . Zomba. 



4. Epomophobus cbypttjbus, Pet. 

 a. Ad. al. $ . Zomba. 

 Porearm 78 mm. 



I entirely agree with Prof. Du Bocage l in considering that 

 E. crypturus of Peters is not synonymous with E. gambianus, as 

 stated by Dobson, but is a valid species intermediate between 

 E. macroceplialus and E. minor. At the time of Dobson's Catalogue 

 there was not a specimen of it in the Museum, while E. gambianus 

 was represented by two examples from the Zambesi, so that he 

 naturally supposed Peters to have got hold of the same form, 

 especially as the latter's very imperfect description of the palate- 

 ridges applies perfectly to those of E. gambianus. 



Sundevall's Pteropus ivahlbergi from Natal appears, by the dimen- 

 sions given, to be really E. gambianus, but E. crypturus also occurs 



1 J. Sci. Lisb. (2) i. p. 3 (1889). 



