reduncinj: 22i 



III. Genus KOBUS. 



Kobus, A. Smith, Illustr. Zool. S. Africa, Mamm. pt. xii, pi. xxviii, 



1840 ; Biitimeyer, Abh. schwein. pal. Ges. vol. iv, p. 60, 1877 ; 



Pocock, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1910, 916. 

 Kolus, Gray, List Mamm. Brit. Mus. p. 159, 1843, (?) errorim. 

 Cobus,* Buckley, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1876, p. 284 ; Sclater and Thomas, 



Book of Antelopes, vol. ii, p. 95, 1896. 

 Eobus, Zittel. Handhuch Palceont. vol. iv, Mamm. pp. 417 and 729, 



1893, errorim. 



Size large or medium ; build generally heavy. Horns of 

 male long, lunate or more or less sublyrate, and heavily 

 ridged for the greater part of their length ; muffle normal ; 

 rudimentary face-glands,t but no bare subauricular patch; 

 tail relatively long, reaching about to the hocks, with a ridge 

 of hair on dorsal surface and a terminal tuft ; foot-glands 

 wanting ; inguinal glands absent, or represented by a single 

 pau- of pouches ; coat usually hairy ; skull massive, with 

 large lachrymal vacuities, large auditory buUte, and the 

 premaxillte reaching the long nasals. 



The distribution is practically the same as that of the 

 subfamily. 



The genus is divisible into the following three subgeneric 

 groups : — 



A. No inguinal glands ; coat grizzled ; hair of back not 



reversed. Size large ; horns sublunate, inclin- 

 ing forwards superiorly ; neck heavily maned . . . Kohus. 



B. A single pair of inguinal pouches ; coat not grizzled ;. 



hair of back usually reversed ; neck not heavily 

 maned. 



a. Size medium ; coat long and rough, horns sublyr- 



ate, vpith a more or less marked double (sig- 

 moid) flexure Onotragus. 



b. Size smaller ; coat typically short and smooth ; 



horns sublyrate, without distinct double 



flexure Adenota. 



* This is undoubtedly the proper Latinised form of the name, 

 which, according to the Strickland code, ought to be employed, 

 t See Pocock, op. cit. p. 916. 



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