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Show 138 MR. O. THOMAS ON T H E [Feb. 20, there, as is shown by a specimen from that country presented the Museum by Capt. Shelley in 1881. 5. EHINOLOPHUS HILDEBRANDTI, Pet. a. Ad. al. 3 . Zomba. Forearm 65 mm.; ear, length 36 ; nose-leaf 25 x 13-5. This fine Bat I had at first supposed to be new, owing to the fact that Peters had only re-softened skins to describe, and these scarcely showed its most remarkable characteristics, namely the great size of the ears and nose-leaf, and the development of a distinct crenulate supplementary leaflet outside the horseshoe. Nor did its describer observe that it is entirely without the minute intermediate lower premolar which most of the species possess, but which is also absent in R. cethiops. The British Museum, however, contains one of Hildebrandt's typical specimens, and a comparison with this proves the identity of the Nyasa example with it. The discovery of R. hildebrandti in Nyasaland effects a great extension of its range, as it was originally described from Taita, E. Africa. 6. EHINOLOPHUS LANDERI, Mart. (?). a. Ad. al. Zomba. 1/93. This specimen differs from typical R. landeri, and equally from Peters's R. lobatus1, probably synonymous with it, in the much greater breadth of the horizontal portion of the nose-leaf, which entirely covers the muzzle. As, however, a specimen quite agreeing with the true R. landeri was obtained on the Shire by Kirk and Livingstone (specimen c of Dobson's Catalogue), I think it possible that the difference above noted may be purely an individual one, and not indicative of any local distinction. Further specimens will, however, be necessary before this point can be properly cleared up. 7. EHINOLOPHUS CAPENSIS, Licht. a. Ad. al. 3 . Zomba. 1/93. 8. HIPPOSIDERUS CAPPER, Sund. a. Ad. al. $ . Zomba. 1/93. 9. VESPERUS MEGALURUS, Temm. a. Ad. al. Zomba. 1/93. 10. VESPERUGO NANUS, Pet. a. Ad. al. Zomba. 1/93. 1 Peters, ' Reise n. Mossamb.' Sikig. p. 41 (1852). All reference to this species was accidentally omitted from Dobson's Catalogue, but in his supplementary report of 1880 (Rept. Brit. Assoc. 1880, p. 10) it is included among the Ethiopian species closely allied to and scarcely separable from R. ferrum-equinum, as is also the true R. landeri. Whatever may be the ultimate fate of the other forms here thrown together by Dobson, there can, I think, be little doubt as to the essential identity of R. lobatus with R. landeri. |
