IS KSVU AXDERSEN (ll)0) 



present to leave the question open. — If Rh. dnbsoiti is, even 

 suhspecifieally , inseparable from Rh. lobatus, the species will 

 range from Kordofan and Gallaland in the north to Lower Zambesi 

 in the south. There would he nothing very surprising in this wide 

 distribution. As I have lately pointed out elsewhere (*) , another 

 Ethiopian Horseshoe-bat, viz. Hipposiderus coffer f. typica, covers 

 approximately the same, or, if anything, a still wider area, ranging 

 as it does from Kordofan and Erythrea, through British and German 

 East Africa and Nyasaland, to Transvaal, Natal, and Pondoland. 



Rh. alcyone is by far the most completely differentiated ot 

 the Ethiopian species here under consideration. In all important 

 cranial, dental and external features it is on the same level as 

 lander i and lobatus, but it is so much larger than the other 

 Ethiopian representatives of this type that there can be no doubt 

 as to its specific distinctness. 



Measurements of Rh. alcyone, landeri, lobaius, and dobsoni. 





Rh. alcyone. 



Rh. landeri. 



Rh. lobatus. 



Rh. dobsoni. 



Q ad. 

 Type. 

 (Dr. Jentink, 

 in litfc.) 



■b 



3 



z5 



2 adults, 

 2 skulls. 



6 adults, 

 3 skulls. 



2 adults, 

 1 skull. 













Min. 



Max. 



Min. 



Max. 



Min. 



Max. 





mm. 





mm. 



mm. 



mm. 



mm. 



mm. 



mm. 



mm. 









21 



8 



14.8 



15 



3 



15 





17.5 



16 





16 



» greatest broad th . 







17 



2 



12.5 



12. 



5 



12 



5 



14 



12. 



6 



12.7 



Horse-shoe, breadth . . 







10 



5 



7.4 



7 



4 



7. 



2 



7.8 



7. 



2 



7.3 





51 





52 



5 



43 



43 



5 



45. 



7 



47.2 



44 



2 



44.8 



3rd digit, metacarpal . . 



36 





36 



3 



29 



29 



8 



30 





32 



30. 



2 



31.8 



» 1st phalanx. . 



18 





17 



5 



12.1 



13 



3 



13 





14 



13 





13 



» 2nd phalanx . 



ca. 27 





28. 



2 



21.6 



22 





22. 



5 



24 



21 



8 



24 



4th digit, metacarpal. . 



40 





40 



5 



32.3 



32 



8 



33 



5 



36 



33 



8 



34. 5 



» 1st phalanx 



8 





9 





6 



6 



8 



6 



7 



7.2 



6 



5 





» 2nd phalanx . 







19 





12.2 



11 



1 



14 





16 



14 





15.3 



5th digit, metacarpal. . 



40 





40 



5 



31.7 



32 





32 



8 



36 



32 





33 



» 1st phalanx. . 



11.5 





12 





7.8 



9. 



2 



9. 



5 



10 



9 



5 



9.8 



» 2nd phalanx . 







17 



2 



U.2 



13. 



2 



12 



8 



14.3 



13 



5 



14 



Tail 







24 





18 



20 



8 



22 



5 



28.8 



23 



7 



24 









25 



5 



18 



18 



3 



19 



4 



21.5 



20 





21 



Foot, with claws . . . 







12 





8 



8. 



1 



8. 



5 



9.7 



9 



3 



9.7 



skull, total length to 































22 





23 



2 



17.2 



IS 



2 



19 







18 



8 





Skull, basilar length to 



































19 





13.7 



14 



4 



15 







14. 



8 





Skull, mastoid width . . 



11 





11 



2 



8.3 



'.) 



1 



9. 



3 





9. 



1 





» width of brain-case 







10 





7.5 



8 





8. 



3 





8 







» zygomatic width . 







12 



2 





<) 



2 



10 





10. 1 



9 



4 





» maxillary width . 







8 



8 



6.7 



7 





7 





7.2 



6 



8 





» across cingula of c 







6 



8 



4.7 



4 



9 



5 





5.5 



5 







» width of nasal 































6 





6 



3 



5 



5 



2 



5. 



1 



5.2 



5. 



2 







10 





18 



8 



11.7 



12 



2 



12 



7 



13.1 









Upper teeth 



8 





9 





6.8 



7 





6. 



8 



7.2 



6. 



8 







9 





10 





7.2 



7 



5 



7 



3 



8 



7. 



2 





(M Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (7; XVU. pp. 277, 281 (March i, 1900). 



