NEW OR LITTLE-KNOWN HATS 



191 



I have some reason to think that also de Seabra's Rh. ango- 

 lensis , known li*oni one example, in the Lisljon Museum, 

 obtained at Hanha, Angola, is a species of the Rh. lander i type, 

 p^ is stated to i}e in the tooth-series (« denticao conio no Rh. 

 hipposiderus » , in the Portuguese account ; « la petite premo- 

 laire supérieure très pen saillante mais assez large et serrée entre 

 la canine peu developpee et la seconde prémolaire longue et aigiie » , 

 in the French version) ; and judging from tw^o pencil-sketches of 

 the nose-leaves, very kindly sent me by Sr. de Seabra, the con- 

 necting-process is projecting and pointed, and the sella pandurate. 

 These three facts combined seem to exclude all doul^t as to the 

 true affinities of Rh. angolensis. — The fourth metacarpal 

 measures, according to Sea])ra, 32 mm., the first phalanx of tlie 

 fourth digit 7 mm.; in other w^ords, this phalanx show^s the strong 

 shortening so characteristic of the bats of the lander I type. — 

 The other measurements published seem to indicate that Rh. 

 angolensis comes nearest to Rh. lander i in external dimensions, 

 being perhaps a trifle smaller, and with a markedly shorter tii)ia. 

 The skull is unknown. 



If my suggestion as to the affinities of RJi. angolensis is 

 correct, the Rh. lander i type — thus comprising Rh. alcyone , 

 landeri, angolensis, lobatus, and dobsoni — is, roughly speaking, 

 distributed in a broad belt across tropical Africa, fi'om the Gold 

 Coast, Kordotan and Gallaland in the north, to Angola and Lower 

 Zambesi in the south. 



7. I^liiiiol<>]^>li.U!€ smcli-einii , Senna. 



1905. Rhinoloj^hiis aìKlreinìi, Angelo Senna, Archivii^r Zoologico II. pt. 3, 

 p. 256, pi. XVI. fig. 1; pi. XYIII, figs. 7-16 (Sept. 30, 1905). 



cf ad.; preserved in alcohol. Harrar, Gallaland. Collected by Count Salim- 

 lx?ni. ^luseo Civico, Genoa. 



The type (in Dr. Senna's private collection), from Adi Ugri, 

 Erythrea, was hitherto tlie only specimen known. 



{}) A. F. DE Seabr.v, Jorn. Sei. Math. Phys. Nat. Lisboa (2) V. no 20, p. 25() (Dec. 

 1S9S); and (2) VI, no. 22, p. 117 (Aug. 1900). 



