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Show 1894.] MAMMALS OF NYASALAND. 137 novelties. For although there are not a very large number of species altogether represented in the present collection, yet several are new to the locality, one is a rediscovered species described thirty years ago, and two are new to science. The Mammal-fauna is therefore evidently far from worked out, and Messrs. Johnston and Whyte should be encouraged to continue their explorations until, after the receipt of five or six more similar collections, we may perhaps be in a position to say that our knowledge of the Mammals of the district approaches completion. 1. CERCOPITHECUS ALBIGULARIS, Sykes. a. Ad. sk. 3 • Fort Lister, Milanji, 3500 ft. 16/7/93. b. Ad. sk. 2 • Milanji Plateau, 6000 ft. 26/4/93. For the determination of these two Monkeys I am indebted to Mr. Sclater, who has been recently making a study of this group, and who has kindly furnished me with the following note respecting them:- " The male is much larger, and shows no rufous on the rump and arms. The smaller female has these parts strongly tinged with rufous. This is probably a sexual distinction, as it was no doubt on a similar specimen that C. erythrarchus, Peters (which Dr. Matschie has lately pronounced to b e = C albigularis, cf. Sitz.- Ber. nat. Freunde Berl. 1893, p. 215), was based. The female specimen agrees well with the figure of C. erythrarchus in the ' Eeise nach Mossambique,' and with a female specimen formerly living in the Zoological Society's Menagerie." 2. OTOGALE KIRKI, Gray. a. Ad. sk. Blantyre. 2/93. b-d. 3 do. Shire Highlands. 12/92. 3. GALAGO MOHOLI, A. Sm. a. Ad. al. 2 • Zomba. 4. EPOMOPHORUS CRYPTURUS, Pet. a. Ad. al. $ • Zomba. Forearm 78 mm. I entirely agree with Prof. D u Bocage' in considering that E. crypturus of Peters is not synonymous with E. gambianus, as stated by Dobson, but is a valid species intermediate between E. macrocephalus and E. minor. At the time of Dobson's Catalogue there was not a specimen of it in the Museum, while E. gambianus was represented by two examples from the Zambesi, so that he naturally supposed Peters to have got hold of the same form, especially as the latter's very imperfect description of the palate-ridges applies perfectly to those of E. gambianus. Sundevall's Pteropus wahlbergi from Natal appears, by the dimensions given, to be really E. gambianus, but E. crypturus also occurs 1 J. Sci. Lisb. (2) i. p. 3 (1889). |