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Forearm (same specimens), d 1 57.6, (55-58.8), 9 58 (55-61). 

 Skull (same specimens), total length & 25.1 (25-25.3); 9 24.4 (21.3- 

 25.4); zygomatic breadth, cf 14.8 (14.4-15.2), 9 14.9 (14.4-15.2). 



Rhinolophid^:. 



19. Rhinolophus hildebrandti eloquens Andersen. 



Rhinolophus hildebrandti eloquens Andersen, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. (7), XV, 

 p. 74, Jan. 1905. Entebbe, Uganda. 



Three specimens, skins and skulls (1 male, 2 females), Aba, Dec. 15-17, 

 1911. 



Collectors' measurements: Total length, 96.3 (91-100); head and body, 

 67 (65-70); foot, 14.7 (14-17); ear (outer base to tip), 29.3 (29-30). 



Forearm (from skin), 56.2 (55-57.5). Skull, total length, 26.8 (26.8- 

 26.9); zygomatic breadth, 13.2 (12.8-13.7). A minute p 2 present on both 

 sides in two skulls, wholly lacking in the other skull. 



20. Rhinolophus abae sr. nov. 



Type, No. 49113, 9 ad. (skin and skull), Aba, Uele district, Belgian Congo, 

 Dec. 15, 1911; Herbert Lang and James P. Chapin. American Museum Congo 

 Expedition. Orig. No. 1756. 



General coloration drab-brown, a little darker above than below, the middle of 

 the back slightly darker (blackish brown) than the rest of the upperparts, sides of 

 the shoulders a little lighter. Fur almost uniformly colored from base to tip, the 

 median zone being only slightly lighter than the base and tips. 



Ears long and pointed, the anterior border slightly convex (increasingly so 

 apically), the posterior nearly straight (slightly concave toward the apex), the anti- 

 tragus large and high (vertical depth anteriorly 5-6 mm.). Breadth of horseshoe 

 in skins (when not unduly shrunken), 8.5-9.5 mm. Nose-leaf broad at base (about 

 6.5 mm.), acutely pointed, and about 6 mm. in length. Sella about 3 mm. broad at 

 base and 4 in height (as nearly as can be judged in softened skins), slightly concave 

 on anterior face, with a posterior extension of about 3 mm., highest in front with a 

 slight median axial depression. 



Type, collectors' measurements: Total length, 85; head and body, 63; tail, 24; 

 foot, 12; ear, 24. Forearm (from skin), 52.3; tibia, 20; foot, 11. 



Skull (type), total length, 22.9; zygomatic breadth, 11.9; breadth at canines, 

 5.8; maxillary breadth, 8.1; upper toothrow (front of c-m 3 ), 7.8; lower jaw (incisors 

 to condyle), 15.1; lower toothrow (c-m 3 ), 8.8. 



Represented by ten specimens, skins and skulls (2 males, 8 females) all collected 

 at Aba, December 15-17, 1911. 



Collectors' measurements (1 male, 1 7 females, all adult) : 



1 The other male is subadult, and one of the females has measurements that obviously do not belong 



to it. 



