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Show 1896.] MAMMALS OF NYASALAND. 791 11. RHINOLOPHUS LANDERI, Mart. (P. Z. S. 1894, p. 138.) Fort Johnston, April and Dec. 1895 (Br. P. Bendall). 12. RHINOLOPHUS CAPENSIS, Licht. (P. Z. S. 1894, p. 138.) 13. HIPPOSIDERUS CAFFER, Sund. (P. Z. S. 1894, p. 138.) a. In spirit. Fort Johnston, Dec. 1895 (Br. P. Bendall). b. Skin. Fort Johnston, Dec. 1895. Presented by Dr. Kendall. 14. NYCTERIS HISPIDA, Schr. a. In spirit. Fort Johnston, April 25 and 28, 1895 (Br. P. Bendall). b. Skin. Fort Johnston, Sept. 5, 1895. Presented by Dr. Bendall. 15. VESPERUGO (EPTESICUS1) MEGALURUS, Temm. (P. Z. S. 1892, p. 548; 1894, p. 138.) 16. VESPERUGO (EPTESICUS) RENDALLI, Thos. 3 skins. Upper Shire R., July 25, 1895. Presented by Dr. Percy Kendall. " Roosting during the clay on the leaves of a doum palm; caught when the tree was felled. Native name ' Chiputi-puti,'' -P.P. This peculiar white-winged Bat was first discovered by Dr. Percy Rendall on the Gambia, and was described by me in 1889. It is a curious coincidence that its second known capture, in so far distant a country as Nyasaland, is due to the very same naturalist who originally discovered it. There appear to be no differences of any importance between the Gambian and Nyasan examples. 17. VESPERUGO NANUS, Peters. (P.Z.S. 1892, p. 548 ; 1894, p. 138.) a, b. Zomba (A. Whyte). 18. SCOTOPHILUS NIGRITA, Schr. 2. Fort Johnston, Dec. 1895 (Br. P. Bendall). 1 Dr. Harrison Allen (P. Ac. Philad. 1891. p. 466) has shown that the name Vesperus is not tenable in Mammalia owing to preoccupation, and has given the group another name-Adelonycteris. But from his own synonymies (Bats N. Amer. ed. 1, p. 31, and ed. 2, pp. 112 & 184, 1893) it is quite clear that Eptesicus, Baf., dating from 1820, has a valid claim to adoption. Bafinesque's description is fully pertinent if the evident transposition of the words " outside " and " inside" in the description of the upper incisors be allowed for. The typical species, E. melanops, is said to have been already " noticed under the head of Vespertilio phaiops," and this latter name Dr. Allen places as a synonym of " Adelonycteris fuscus." (See also J. A. Allen, Bull. Mus. Harvard Coll. no. 8, p. 208, 1869.) |