1. EVOMOPUORl'S. 



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elevations on each side and by ill-defined semicircular toothed lines, 

 as in Cynonycteris straminea. The first undivided ridge is straight, 

 and is placed immediately behind the canines ; the second is similar, 

 and corresponds to the first premolars ; the third is represented by 

 a large oval papilla on each side, opposite the middle back tooth ; 

 the fourth, fifth, and sixth by similar but much smaller and less 

 elevated papillae, succeeded by transverse semicircular toothed lines 

 behind (Plate II. fig. 4). 



Upper incisors small, equally distant, the outer incisor on each side 

 falling out in old individuals, so that the dentition then resembles 

 that of -£■. comptus ; lower incisors also small and separated, un- 

 equally trifid ; premolars and molars as in E. gambianus. 



The adult female is considerably smaller than the male ; and 

 the following Table exhibits the relative proportions of an adult 

 male and female respectively : — 



Epomophonis franqueti. 



Length, head and body 



,, head 



,, eye from tip of nostril 



„ ear 



„ forearm 



,,. thvimb 



„ third finger, metacarpal 



„ „ ,, 1st ph 



,, „ ,, 2nd ph 



,, fifth finger, metacarpal 



„ Istph 



,, ,, ,, 2nd ph 



„ tibia 



„ foot 



Hah. West Africa (Sierra Leone, Gold Coast, Lagos, Gaboon). 



This species is easily recognised by the very large size of the 

 shoulder-pouches and remarkable development of the hairs lining 

 them (in the adult male), as weU as by the comparatively wide in- 

 terfemoral membrane, by the total absence of the tail, by the deci- 

 duous upper outer incisors, and by the peculiar form of the palate- 

 ridges. 



a. $ ad., al. 

 h. cJ ad., al. 

 c. $ imm., al. 



Sierra Leone. 

 Gaboon. 



Purchased. 



M. Lidth de Jeude. 



5. Epomophoms comptus. 



Epomophorus comptus, Allen, Pr. Ac. Nat. Sci. Philad. 1861, p. 158. 



Muzzle shorter than in E. gambianus ; in adult females the ear is 

 considerably longer than the muzzle ; outer and inner margins of the 

 ear-conch equally convex in lower two thirds, the tip narrowly 

 rounded off, the upper third of the outer margin slightly concave 



