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Chiroptera. 

 Pteropodidae. 



Epomophorus wahlbergi Sundevall, 



K. Andeesen: Cat. Chiropt. B. M. 1912, p. 526. 



This Fruit-eating Bat was only observed once viz. at the upper Luazomela river 

 where it flows down to the acaciasteppe one days march north of Meru boma. A 

 small » colony » consisting of a male and three females were found hanging in a large 

 bush with yellow flowers in a grove of big yellow-barked acacias. They were picked 

 down with the specimen gun, and two of the females carried young, measuring about 

 6 cm. from vertex of head to vent the 20*^ of March 1911. 



This species appears to be distributed from South Africa to East Africa as far 

 north as to Mount Kenia. The present locality is thus, as far as is known, its nor- 

 thern limit. Since this was written I have had the pleasure of receiving a paper* 

 from G. M. Allen in which he records »E. neumanni^ from a locality probably very 

 near the one where I collected mine. 



Nycteridae. 



Lavia frons frons (Geopproy) and L. f. affinis Andersen & Wroughton. 



Andersen & Wroughton: Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. Ser. 7, Vol. 19, 1907, p. 138. 



A single male was shot in a patch of thornbush at Lekiundu river, just south 

 of Guaso Nyiri */2 1911. This specimen has a cranial length of 25,8 mm. and the 

 length of the upper tooth row is 9,5 mm. To judge from the measurements of these 

 parts quoted by Andersen and Wroughton (1. c. p. 139) this specimen should 

 belong to the larger race Lavia frons frons (Geopproy). 



North of Guaso Nyiri below Chanler Falls I shot a pair of this kind of bats 

 in the thornbush "/a 1911. The upper tooth rows of these two specimens measure 

 only 8,7 and 8,8 mm. resp. This should according to the authors quoted indicate that 

 these specimens belong to the northern smaller race Lavia frons affinis Andersen 

 Wroughton. The length of the forearm in the female is 56 mm. thus a measure- 

 ment which can be found in both races. In the male the corresponding bones have 

 been broken by the shot. The size of the ear of the specimens from the northern 

 and southern sides of Guaso Nyiri is also different being smaller in the former. The 

 dimensions of the different phalanges of the fingers etc. are also smaller in the spe- 

 cimens from the northern side of Guaso Nyiri than in the one from Lekiundu. 

 Although it is difficult to pass a definite judgement on so little material, it appears 



1 G. M. Allen: Bats from British East Africa. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Vol. LIV N:o 9, p. 322. 



