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Bulletin American Museum of Natural History. [Vol. XXXVII, 



49. Kerivoula cuprosa Thomas. 

 Text Fig. 8. 



Kerivoula cuprosa Thomas, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. (8), X, p. 41, July, 1912. 

 Bitye, Ja River, southeastern Cameroons. 



Three specimens: Akenge, 2, an adult female and young (the latter 

 found hanging to the mother) in alcohol, Oct. 7, 1913; Medje, 1, adult male, 

 skin and skull, June 7, 1914. 



The collectors' measurements of the Medje specimen are as follows: 



Total length, 90; head and 

 body, 45; tail, 45; foot, 7; ear, 

 14. These measurements are 

 practically identical with the 

 field measurements of the 

 type of the species, as given 

 by Thomas (/. c). 



Measurements of the male 

 in alcohol, from Akenge. 

 Total length, 82; head and 

 body, 42; tail, 40; foot, 5.7; 

 ear (from crown), 9.3, from 

 notch, 10. 



Forearm, 9 34.5, & 34.4; 

 third metacarpal, 9 33.5, d 71 

 32.8. 



Skull, total length, 9 13.5, 

 13.6; zygomatic breadth, 

 9 12.4, c? 12.7; upper tooth- 

 row (c-m 3 ), 9 5.4, cf 5.2; in 

 the type (from Thomas, I. e.), 

 5.1. The only skull measure- 

 ments given of the type are 

 those of the upper and lower 

 too throws. 



In respect to coloration and other external characters these specimens 

 agree closely with the description of the type. 



The species has been previously recorded from Avakubi, near the present 

 localities, by Dollman (Rev. Zoolog. Africaine, IV, p. 76, July, 1914). 



The accompanying figures of the skull are from the female. The two 

 skulls do not differ in any marked way, except that the male has a much 

 more strongly developed sagittal crest. 



Fig. 8. Kerivoula cuprosa Thomas 

 male (No. 49336). f. 



Skull of adult fe- 



