126 PTEROPID A. 
See Epomophorus comptus, Allen, Proc. Acad. N. 8. Philad. 1861, 
p. 158, Fur soft reddish fawn, becoming darker on the loins 
and base of arms; under surface with a large ovoid patch of 
dirty white, bounded laterally by longitudinal fawn-coloured 
stripes; face covered with short brown hairs ; small yellow 
tuft at the base of the ears ; chin whitish ; epaulettes faintly 
marked; lips moderate. Hab. West Africa: Gaboon, Du 
Chaillu. Intermediate in size between E. gambianus and 
schoensis. Arm-bone 8 inches; Skull smaller than that of 
E. gambianus, with only two incisors in the upper jaw, which 
are in the centre of the intercanine space, and slightly sepa- 
rated from each other. 
2. Epomophorus gambianus. B.M. 
Brown, middle of the underside whitish. 
Pteropus gambianus, Ogilby, P. Z. S. 1835, p. 100. _ Epomophorus 
ambianus, Gray, Mag. Zool. & Bot. ii. p. 504; Tomes, P. Z. S. 
860, p. 52; 1861, t. 1.f 2 (skull), Pachysoma gambianus, Temm. 
Esq. p. 69, 1853. Pteropus Wahlbergii, Sundevall, K. Vet. Akad. 
Stock, 1846, p. 118. 
Hab. Gambia, Rendall ; Port Natal and Caffraria, Sundevall ; 
? Angola, Monteiro (in spirit); Abyssinia, Verreaus. 
See also 
a. Pteropus Wahlenbergit, Sundevall, V. Akad. Stock, 1846, 
p- 118; Epomophorus crypturus, Peters, Mossamb. Mamm. 
p- 26,t.5 & 13. f. 1 (skull); Tomes, P. Z. 8. 1861, p. 12. 
Hab. Mossambique, Peters; Sundevall ; Tomes. 
b. Pteropus labiatus, Temm. Mon. ii. p. 83, t. 9; Pachysoma la- 
biatum, Temm. Esq. p. 68, 1853; Epomophorus labiatus, 
Tomes, P. Z. 8. 1860, p. 55; 1861, p. 13. Hab. Abyssinia, 
Mus. Leyden. Allied to P. macrocephalus. 
14, EPOMOPS. 
Like Epomophorus, but head ovate. Skull ovate, broad. Face 
moderate, not nearly so long as the brain-case. Zygomatic arches 
convex. Cutting-teeth separate, far apart in the intercanine space. 
Grinders 4, close together. 
Epomophorus, sp., Tomes. 
Epomops Franqueti. 
Brown, the middle of the belly white ; the epaulettes very large, 
white (in spirit); ear-spot white. 
Epomophorus Franqueti, Tomes, P. Z. S. 1860, p. 54, t. 75; 1861, 
t. 1. f. 8, skull. 
Hab. West Africa: Gaboon, Franquet. 
